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Right now we buy Classico. But I am curious - is there a way to make
homemade pasta sauce that is better than premade jarred namebrand?

I would like to if it's not all that time consuming.

There are hundreds of them and there are also hundreds of people who
skillfully make them and publish the recipes on food blogs. Everyday
millions of Italian homemakers go into the kitchen and make a pasta and a
sauce in 20 minutes or less. There is no one sauce and many have no tomato
in them at all.

If you want to start with a tomato sauce, make a simple one with a vegetable
sofritto, tomatoes and seasonings. Don't over do it. You will learn how to
elaborate by beginning with making the best from the simplest. Remember the
adage, "when cooking with tomatoes, it is less than 10 minutes or more than
2 hours: the acid lives between." Start with the 10 minute sauces using
already cooked canned tomatoes. Expect a bright, fresh tasting sauce. Once
you have mastered that, start looking for sauces like arabbiata, puttanesca,
amatriciana and those will be easy, too. Don't get stuck in a rut thinking
there's only one way to do these things and that it must be hard and time
consuming.


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