a spaghetti poll

[Deleted]

If spaghetti is for dinner, what's your M.O.?

a. order in/eat out
b. sauce from a jar, noodles from a box, brown some meat
c. no jar & no box.  you make it all.
d. you never eat spaghetti
e. chef boyardee or frozen meal
f. a combo of b/c
g. something else?

[dirtyred]

Doctored sauce from jar if I'm lazy, an easy marinara if I'm not.  Boxed noodles.

[soozy87]

Noodles from a box, homemade sauce with homegrown beef

[Deleted]

Spaghetti is one of my least favorite pasta shapes, so I typically only eat it when I know it will be really good -- so that's eating out to me. I have two restaurants that I love for spaghetti with pomodoro sauce, and one that I love for spaghetti aglio olio.

If I'm eating pasta in, my preference is dry pasta (usually penne, but I can vary on that) from the really good pasta store nearby, and pomodoro sauce that I make myself.

[havarti]

Jun 7, 2013 16:32:21 GMT -5 dirtyred said:

Doctored sauce from jar if I'm lazy, an easy marinara if I'm not.  Boxed noodles.

This, but I'm always lazy.

[Awkward]

Brown up some hamburg, jar of better sauce (whatever looks tasty that is a few steps above Ragu, occasionally Newman's Own), whole wheat pasta.

I've made my own sauce a handful of times and decided it wasn't worth the time unless it's the weekend. Ain't nobody got time for that on a Tuesday at 6pm.

[explorer2001]

Where does pulling my Italian mom's sauce out of the freezer fall on this spectrum?

Usually box noodles and homemade sauce (mine or mom's).

[explorer2001]

Jun 7, 2013 16:37:13 GMT -5 Awkward said:

Brown up some hamburg, jar of better sauce (whatever looks tasty that is a few steps above Ragu, occasionally Newman's Own), whole wheat pasta.

I've made my own sauce a handful of times and decided it wasn't worth the time unless it's the weekend. Ain't nobody got time for that on a Tuesday at 6pm.

So true. Hence freezing sauce when you make a batch. Then freezer sauce on Tuesday at 6pm.

[karinothing]

Jun 7, 2013 16:32:21 GMT -5 dirtyred said:

Doctored sauce from jar if I'm lazy, an easy marinara if I'm not.  Boxed noodles.

This is basically us. Spaghetti is my quick week night meal so jarred sauce it is!

[msmerymac]

I have not yet made my own pasta. I usually don't use red sauce on my pasta, but when I do, it's from a jar.

[alleinesein]

Gluten Free pasta (schar brand)
Homemade meatballs
Sauce from a jar

[hamster]

Noodles from a box, homemade sauce. Recipe in the neglected blog.

[thedutchgirl]

Noodles from a box and doctored sauce. I don't like actually spaghetti noodles that much, so I will use another shape.

[dexteroni]

I'm we're eating at home, it's boxed or purchased fresh noodles, most likely penne or rigatoni, and homemade sauce. Sometimes the sauce is a quick marinara, sometimes it simmers all afternoon. Sometimes the long-cooking sauce has pork roast or meatballs in it, other times no. I have made pasta from scratch but only a handful of times. It's awesome, and not hard at all, but it's just not something I'm going to do all the time.

If we go out, it's to a good Italian place that's unlikely to have actual spaghetti-shaped noodles. Or even if they do, I'm more likely to order a freshly made pappardelle or ravioli. If we order in from the fast cheap place, it will either be spaghetti or rigs with meatballs.

[SuziSaysDa]

Whole wheat noodles from a box, ground turkey with onions and garlic, jar of sauce, can or two of diced tomatoes, sliced mushrooms (or whatever veggie I have at home that could work)

[orangeblossom]

I make my own sauce and use boxed noodles.

[Roc A Bee]

Jun 7, 2013 16:39:53 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Jun 7, 2013 16:32:21 GMT -5 dirtyred said:

Doctored sauce from jar if I'm lazy, an easy marinara if I'm not.  Boxed noodles.

This is basically us. Spaghetti is my quick week night meal so jarred sauce it is!

I'm in this camp.

[Deleted]

Jun 7, 2013 16:31:02 GMT -5 @blushnbashful said:

If spaghetti is for dinner, what's your M.O.?

a. order in/eat out
b. sauce from a jar, noodles from a box, brown some meat
c. no jar & no box.  you make it all.
d. you never eat spaghetti
e. chef boyardee or frozen meal
f. a combo of b/c
g. something else?

Occasionally a, and usually c, sort of. I use boxed noodles but I cannot tolerate sauce from a jar.

I'm not Italian, but I might as well be in this respect. I'm from an area with a sizable Italian-American community, and lot of my friends and family members married into Italian families/are part Italian. One of my great-aunts who is not at all Italian married an Italian-American, then made her own noodles from scratch until he died.

The first time I made sauce (the recipe is from my aunt's Italian-immigrant MIL) for my decidedly non-Italian H, he said he never knew people made their own. That would have made my family go

[loskadoodle]

Almost always noodles from a box. Sauce can go either way.

[h]

Generally store bought noodles, homemade marinara sauce. Sometimes jarred sauce if I am just trying to feed the kids quickly before we go out.

[Deleted]

Jun 7, 2013 16:37:13 GMT -5 Awkward said:

I've made my own sauce a handful of times and decided it wasn't worth the time unless it's the weekend. Ain't nobody got time for that on a Tuesday at 6pm.

You can make a good pomodoro sauce so quickly and easily!  Mine is roughly this, minus the sugar and plus a little pepperoncini.  It takes me less time for the sauce to be ready than it does to bring water to a boil and cook the pasta.

www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2013/02/quick-pomodoro-sauce

[gibbinator]

Box of noodles, can of sauce, smothered in parmesan

[Deleted]

Jun 7, 2013 16:31:02 GMT -5 @blushnbashful said:

If spaghetti is for dinner, what's your M.O.?

a. order in/eat out
b. sauce from a jar, noodles from a box, brown some meat
c. no jar & no box.  you make it all.
d. you never eat spaghetti
e. chef boyardee or frozen meal
f. a combo of b/c
g. something else?

basically b.

SOmetimes I get fancy and buy the fresh pasta at the grocery store. 

[shevacc]

Jun 7, 2013 16:32:21 GMT -5 dirtyred said:

Doctored sauce from jar if I'm lazy, an easy marinara if I'm not.  Boxed noodles.

This is us too. Sometimes homemade meatballs, sometimes non-homemade sausage.

[Deleted]

Noodles (from a box), butter and Parmesan cheese.

[sa]

Jun 7, 2013 17:02:34 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

I make my own sauce and use boxed noodles.

This but add homemade meatballs.  This is actually what I'm having for dinner tonight.

[bunch]

Usually boxed noodles and homemade meat sauce. During the summer I buy a bunch of bruised tomatoes and make several bags of sauce to freeze. Every once in awhile dh makes homemade noodles or ravioli. We actually don't have traditional spaghetti that often. Maybe once a month. I prefer other pasta dishes.

[Awkward]

Jun 7, 2013 17:20:59 GMT -5 v said:

Jun 7, 2013 16:37:13 GMT -5 Awkward said:

I've made my own sauce a handful of times and decided it wasn't worth the time unless it's the weekend. Ain't nobody got time for that on a Tuesday at 6pm.

You can make a good pomodoro sauce so quickly and easily!  Mine is roughly this, minus the sugar and plus a little pepperoncini.  It takes me less time for the sauce to be ready than it does to bring water to a boil and cook the pasta.

www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2013/02/quick-pomodoro-sauce

Wait, we're talking using canned tomatoes and such? OHHHHHHKAY. I honestly thought people meant peeling tomatoes from the garden and dicing them and stewing them every time they were making sauce. This makes a whole lot more sense.

Bookmarked that Bon Appetit recipe for future use too.

[cinco]

I cook it for the kids sometimes, boxed noodles, jar sauce. I'll eat my mom or someone else's home made, but it isn't something I go out of my way for.

[mbcdefg]

I had no problem using a jar of Ragu for my spaghetti.

Then I married an Italian guy and he put the kibosh on that. So now I make it from scratch, which isn't hard and it tastes better anyway.

ETA: Maybe not "from scratch" since I use canned tomatoes, I guess.