Originally Posted by
gaobest
Despite making my own marinara sauce with canned DOP Marzano whole tomatoes, I’ve recently discovered and loved the Rao brand way too much.
Originally Posted by
PresRDC
Rao is definitely the best of the jarred sauces. Used to only be available in the NYC metro area, but has gone wider in recent years.
I haven't tried the pasta sauce, but recently discovered Rao pizza sauce when the store was out of my favorite locally made sauce. I still prefer my usual, but Rao makes a very good pizza sauce. Nearly all the other substitutes I've tried have been too sweet and just not good.
Originally Posted by
lhrsfo
Having said that, I find basic spaghetti goes well with pretty well any good sauce and, combined with a good Bolognese, it can't be beat. All the comments upthread about meatballs with spaghetti I find very odd - it seems an odd combination and one I've only seen in the USA and never tried.
Agree on the Bolognese. I've never been a fan of the Italian-American spaghetti and meatballs. I believe a truer Italian version would be spaghetti, with one large meatball on the side? I'm sure, in our typical American way, we took a big juicy meatball and decided to turn it into 10 small ones so they'd cook faster and we could sell more.
Originally Posted by
corky
i almost never eat bucatini in public despite it being my very favorite ....there is no graceful way to eat it....it has a mind of it's own.
lol...thought it was just me. It's something about the extra thickness that makes it go every which way. But that doesn't stop me from eating it in public!