8. Posted by FaeryDame on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 12:45 pm PDT
There is a lot a person can do with "tomato sauce" but these recepies are rather boring, uninventive, and too vague to do anything with anyhow. Not enough flavors to make a 3 course meal of tomoto paste, or sauce, or whatever it is you mean to refer to, and not enough detail to know how even if a person wanted to. And that granita? That is just icky sounding. How is that a desert? It is, at best, a starter. And certainly other tomato granita recepies do not facade as a sweet treat. They have basil and olive oil, and are not loaded down with sugar, over processed tomoatoes, and the like, Good luck getting a kid to eat that!
9. Posted by April D on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 12:57 pm PDT
I love pasta sauce and tomatos and there is SO much you can do with both/either that the above vague list is very disappointing. I wouldn't recommend these items if you actually wanted to enjoy a 3 course meal!
11. Posted by blragain on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 1:58 pm PDT
Sorry, no sauce in a jar is cutting it with me. I make my own sauce and have since I was a teen, my mom made her own, and my kids do too. Oh, and the granita sounds totally disgusting!
14. Posted by "O" on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 2:06 pm PDT
I make my own sauce as well, because someone living with me has dietary restrictions...like SO many people do today. How about offering something for those of us who have to cook for people who are limited with sodium, and the like? Granita, btw- mega-disgusto!
16. Posted by sprightly_daisy04 on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 2:06 pm PDT
Ick! The tomato ginger vinaigrette does not sound too bad and would probably be pretty good over pasta as would the actual pasta sauce, but granita is never a dessert. That is just wrong. Granita is more like an appetizer. Good luck getting anyone to see it as a dessert.
25. Posted by ums on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 2:10 pm PDT
wow, you guys are insanely rude. while the recipes are vague and not that appealing, there was no reason to overreact.
maybe yahoo should relax on the sponser-based recipes. not so great this time around....
26. Posted by Joseph K on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 2:11 pm PDT
How ridiculous are these recipes? Want to make a good pasta sauce? Can of tomato sauce, can of diced tomatoes drained, clove of garlic, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 2 tbsp olive oil, parsley and oregano to taste. Heat the oil, fry the garlic until soft, pour in sauce, tomatoes, and everything else, and heat on low-medium flame until warm. Taste it. If it needs something, put it in. If it doesn't, let it simmer for at least 15 min. Serve, enjoy. The point is that there's a basic sauce recipe, but everyone has their own tastes that they need to tweak. And if your sauce really sucks, and you can't figure out why, brown a pound of ground beef, drain grease, and put it in the sauce to simmer for 15 minutes. Keep your stuff simple, and you won't look like a cooktard like this here.
27. Posted by scoemery on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 2:11 pm PDT
I'll have to agree, the granita sounds rather hideous..if you spiked it with vodka, or something, like a "frozen" bloody mary,,it might work..but no way is this going to pass as a "dessert"...and that pasta sauce "recipie"..are you serious??
28. Posted by Salemcat111 on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 2:12 pm PDT
If you don't live in NY, you probably won't be able to get Donatella products so you won't ever get this right so none of this matters to the rest of the country.
Doctoring a sauce takes more than a clove of garlic & some basil.
Sugar & tomato sauce as a slushy treat? YUCK!!
30. Posted by Monte H on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 2:13 pm PDT
You need to bump things up a notch by adding ingredients like: capers, sun dried tomatoes, calamari, bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel, tree frogs from Iraq, fresh water clams, Rite Aid brandy, coconut shavings, artichoke hearts, fish bits, Wal-Mart gin, anchovy paste, caviar, pepper corns, juniper berries, duck feet, squash blossoms, tea leaves, jalapeno peppers, lark vomit, goat cheese, toscano salami, pine nuts, high fruitcose corn syrup, avacado body balm, road sweepings, radishes, scalloins, and more bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel.
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