Instead of opting for a slow-cooked tomato sauce for your pasta, smother the entire thing in barbecue sauce. Although it might seem a bit odd, it sure is tasty. Barbecue sauce has similar umami ...
The sauce itself got watery enough to slide off the pasta, acting more like a puree than the chunky treat it was fresh out of the jar. This separation helped dilute the taste of the tomato paste I ...
VERDICT: Trader Joe's tomato-basil marinara is good enough for dipping breadsticks or pizza crust in but it's not the best pasta sauce. 10. The cacio e pepe wasn't quite what I was expecting.