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LinkPizza posted...

As long as youre good at cooking, and using good ingredients

Well, yes. If you sabotage the homemade sauce by using crap and/or not knowing what you're doing, that's obviously going to make it worse.

Dikitain posted...

Depends how you are using them.

If you are adding the meat and vegetables while making the sauce (I.E. Bolognese, Puttanesca, etc.) then it is "part of the sauce".

If you are covering the meat and vegetables with the sauce after it is cooked, then no.

I'd also say that, as far as meat goes, it depends a bit on the size of the pieces. Ground meat is part of the sauce. A whole chicken breast that was cooked in the sauce isn't (though it's going to fall apart pretty easily). I don't know exactly where the line is, since there's a lot of grey area within that assessment, but I'd say anything smaller than bite size can pretty consistently be considered part of the sauce.