Perfect for holding that pre shredded cheese to your Boboli crust.

I can taste this comment, but insert generic Jarred pasta sauce with Don pepino.

Sorry but that shit is nasty. Tried it once, threw out the pizza never looked back.

You gotta make your own sauce my man, this is not ok.

Serious? Its all i use for my pizza. Not overly spiced, low sodium. Did you get a bad can maybe??

I dunno but the spices used or the ratios were not our thing. We tried so many brands of sauce but always go back to making our own.

To each their own I guess. I'm sure any sauce you make is better than what you buy canned or jared.

I have never seen or heard of this stuff. Look, pizza sauce is really easy, you add whatever veggies and herbs you want, the secret is adding a bit of chicken stock

Personally I really like an oniony sauce so I sautee up a whole yellow onion, and a couple of garlic cloves (diced and sliced, respectively). Open a can (28oz) of peeled plum tomatoes and puree it either with a blender or a stick blender thingy ( it's too early to remember the name) and dump it into a pot with the sauteed stuff and a splash of chicken stock Add your herbs now if they're dried or simmer for at least 30 minutes, the longer the better you all know this. Then add your fresh herbs if you're using fresh.

You might be asking "no sugar" and that's correct no sugar, you might wanna add it but I hate sugar in any tomato sauce, it's not good

We use this for chicken parm in my family

Immersion blender or stick blender is fine too

Fuck champagne, that's the real Donny P!

I hope you warn anyone who doesn't eat meat that it's in there. This is the kinda stuff that makes me not want to eat other people's home cooking.

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>I hope you warn anyone who doesn't eat meat that it's in there.

Oh honey, it's how they make pizza sauce in most NJ pizza places, just ask your local place what's in the sauce

> This is the kinda stuff that makes me not want to eat other people's home cooking.

You were not invited to eat my cooking. But if you want you can come over and I'll make a nice vegan/vegetarian meal for you, as long as you drop the shit attitude assuming I'm some sort of asshole who would feed animal products to someone who doesn't eat them, because it's unnecessary.

Maybe some grilled veggies on fresh baked bread (no eggs in the bread) or I make a mean golden curry stir fry with potatoes, onions celery and carrots

I am not a food snob by any stretch of the imagination, but I still don't understand why people would use jarred or canned sauce unless you've got some kind of disability that makes it hard to cook. It's super easy to make yourself.

It tastes like childhood to me . Throw it on a pizza crust and fresh cheese. It’s a completely different vibe with the Don. It’s definitely not good for you (corn oil) but man it does hit the spot sometimes.

tuttaruso and cento for life

It's not the best tasting pizza sauce out there but I'll be damned if I buy anything else!

Well I'd enjoy trying your homemade pizza. Sounds delicious.

Grew up in town. Towards the end of summer you could smell tomato sauce all over town… the smell of going back to school LOL.

Also: I got my license as a junior, but only seniors could park in the HS lot. Don Pepino let us park along the edge of their lot, along the bike trail. :)

Cento also local.

Effort and time are two very different factors.

I use it for homemade pizza all the time. Just for pizza though.

Crushed (good) canned tomatoes, olive oil, salt, maybe couple slices of garlic. Why is that so hard?

And don't pre-cook your pizza sauce.

It’s a comfort food. Grew up eating it as a kid. Why is that so bad? Do you get bothered at people who eat Kraft Mac and Cheese as adults?

I will use the spaghetti sauce when I don’t feel like making my own. Just add my own spices.

Don Pepino on a good Jersey bagel

I’m lucky I’m related to a Giuseppe and a Vito and have their recipes on deck

This chicken stock thing is 100% a you thing lol.

As an Italian living in the US, I can vouch the best pizza sauce is simply tomato sauce without any addition, no onion, garlic, parsley... (we call it "Passata di pomodoro"). It's hard to find, even in NYC, but it is the best way to keep a fresh taste and let emerge better the taste of the other ingredients.

Tied them to my Vespa at my wedding

Both from NJ, lived in Philly for 10 years, back in NJ now

My mom was a working woman but Fridays were our pizza night with Don Pepino. It's not so much taste when it comes to this can - It's about the memories that went along with it.

Nailed it perfectly. Same story with me. My single mom making me these as a kid and all her hard work. Ultimate definition of comfort food.

seriously, everyone here saying they precook the sauce is insane. if *anything*, sautee the onions and garlic and add it to uncooked crushed tomato!

My in-laws LOVE this stuff. We are a san marzano house. Or a jar of Rao's which is always on deck.

I can make pasta from scratch but I gotta sit there and make the dough, let it rest then roll it out and let it dry etc. Sometimes i'm okay with the 1$ box of pasta instead of spending an hour+ and with the price of eggs going up probably $1 + on the recipe

I don't know if I'd compare making pasta from scratch with how easy it is to make pizza sauce. It's literally like opening an extra couple cans, adding seasoning, and mixing it up.

This stuff is legit. I make full on neopolitan pizza in an ooni oven, and this stuff is almost as good as making it myself from San Marzano tomatoes.

We grew up in the town where this was made. Fond memories of the aroma of tomatoes cooking down in the summer.

We used to peek in the door and watch the cans speed down the packing line.

I use it here in Florida on my lame homemade pizza (which is better than 90% of the crap sold around me)

Don "Droste effect" Pepino delivers.

we got 4 cans from Shopright on the can can sale

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Not the best?

Go on.