Tomatoes cooked down slowly. Olive oil, garlic, and basil torn in at the end. Nina’s Sunday sauce, in a jar for a Tuesday.
Turn it over. One jar and one pan of pasta is dinner for four, with enough left to drag the bread through.
Tomatoes
Garlic
Basil
Tomatoes cooked down slowly. Olive oil, garlic, and basil torn in at the end. Nina’s Sunday sauce, in a jar for a Tuesday.
Turn it over. One jar and one pan of pasta is dinner for four, with enough left to drag the bread through.
- Tomatoes
- Garlic
- Basil
Tomatoes first.
Then not much else.
- 01
Tomatoes, cooked down slowly until they turn sweet.
- 02
Olive oil and garlic, warmed first so the whole kitchen knows.
- 03
Basil at the end, torn by hand, never too soon.
Three things Nina never skipped.
- 1Her recipe
Written on a card, then on the inside of the cupboard door. It has not changed.
- 2The long simmer
Sunday morning to Sunday lunch, lid half on, the kitchen window open.
- 3The table
Everyone, every time, and a jar sent home with whoever had the furthest to go.
Pick yours.
The everyday red. For pasta, pizza, meatballs and anything that wants a tomato sauce.
All four sauces
One family.
Six aisles.
The same red name, the same Nina and the same cream label on every pack. The band tells you which one. Scroll to walk the aisles.
Frozen meals
Eggplant Parmigiana, Lasagna Bolognese, Baked Ziti and Chicken Parmesan.
See the frozen mealsSunday, any day
of the week.
Four sauces on the same cream label: Marinara, Tomato Basil, Spicy Garlic and Arrabbiata. The band tells you which one from across the aisle.
Dinner, sorted.
Three dinners that start with a jar. Most of it in twenty minutes.
Penne with tomato basil
The weeknight one. Ten minutes for the pasta, two for the sauce, and a ladle of pasta water to bring them together.
Spaghetti all’arrabbiata
Angry pasta, and the quickest dinner on this page. Add more chilli if the table can take it.
Eggs in purgatory
Eggs poached in simmering marinara. Breakfast, lunch or a late supper, with bread for the pan.