Suppertime Panic: Where's the Pasta Sauce?!!

Posted by Lesli

Eeeek! Don't you hate it when you realize you don't have an ingredient right as you need it to prepare your meal? What is that about? If you're anything like me, you usually jot down what you run out of on an ongoing grocery list. But, no matter how hard I try I still come up short at some time during the week and realize I don't have a key ingredient. Please let me know that I'm not the only foodie incapable of keeping a stocked kitchen at all times!

Last night's missing ingredient really hurt - pasta sauce. Who really runs out of pasta sauce? Well, me for starters...It's never the end of the world, but it sure throws a curve into what your going to make for supper - Spaghetti with pasta sauce. What's spaghetti without the sauce? I guess it would be sauceless spaghetti. (Well, technically it's Calabrese when you add hard cheese & butter) I guess I just let my fear of not getting supper made get the best of me because when I started searching for an alternative to my sauceless situation, I was pleasantly surprised to find oodles of ideas for my noodles...

Equipped with my new found wisdom I know that next time my cupboard is bare of pasta sauce I'll have the knowledge to move forward. Look at the wonderful ideas that surfing the net can get you:

- Spaghetti ( or any other pasta for that matter, of course!) with olive oil, garlic and a hard cheese like parmesan or asiago...(Calabrese)
- Scramble in some eggs to the above (Carbonara)
- Same as above, but add bacon...
- Make a stirfry, create your sauce with soy sauce, chicken broth, brown sugar & garlic to taste...
- Chuck in some canned clams, butter, parmesan cheese & garlic...
- Make sauce of sour cream, lemons & garlic...
- Add canned beans (black, lentil or kidney), parmesan & olive oil...

I could go on, of course, there are so many alternatives to traditional red pasta sauce. I also came across a recipe that just used ketchup in place of the sauce. Although it's nice to know of this alternative, it wouldn't be my first choice! My girlfriend's mom always uses tomato soup as the sauce for their spaghetti, which is an appropriate, although high in sodium, alternative.

In any case, never panic, there's always a solution to your pantry's lack of selection. Surf the internet to get your creative juices flowing, or ask me, I've been there and have a few back up plans that might impress you...

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D. said:

"Please let me know that I'm not the only foodie incapable of keeping a stocked kitchen at all times!"

Fear not -- I'm a foodie incapable of keeping a stocked kitchen at ANY time. I'm ALWAYS lacking something. Hence the reason we go out for Thai so often. :)

Posted at 02:09 PM, on March 15 2007

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Lesli said:

Whew - I'm glad I'm not alone! Thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one with missing-item-itis! Thai sounds good to me!!! ;)

- Lesli Christianson-Kellow

Posted at 08:01 PM, on March 22 2007

Suppertime Panic: Where's the Pasta Sauce?!!

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