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Topic	Bah, it may have been over a year since I made lasagna...and it shows.
wolfy42 12/27/19 1:22:53 AM #8:	Metalsonic66 posted... Most stores in my area have it, but you may have to check the deli Yeah I mainly shop at Safeway although I do hit Fred Meyers and Winco now sometimes. None of them have whole milk mozz or have for along time. Safeway used to, but it's been years. That was a big drop in the taste of my lasagna right there, but yeah my sauce has just......plummeted in taste. I don't know what I'm doing different (or I would change it) but I used to rate it over the best itallian places and somewhere like Olive garden didn't even come close, and now I would almost prefer the olive garden to my sauce (and it's WAY freaking less work). Not sure what changed, maybe it's partially my taste buds as well.....and I know I don't put in as much effort, but there are other factors as well. I don't get the mix of itallian sausage and ground beef right (like this time there was too much sausage for sure), and I don't think I'm cooking the sauce as long (i literally only cooked it on the stove (the ground beef and sausage) then added the sauce (Prego) and simmered it for the time it took to boil the water and cook the noodles. I used to slow cook the sauce all day with a bell pepper in it to flavor it, I added wine and let that reduce, and I don't remember the spices I used, but I used bay leaves and that was the first thing I stopped using years ago. Anyway the difference is amazing and it didn't happen over night, I built up an epic sauce over decades, making it since I was in my late teens, and then it started to go downhill about 5 years ago or so, but while it took 25 years or so to master, it seems like it takes only a few for it to fade away. --- Zangulus "I try to avoid having any knowledge at all of his dick." Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing." <cite>wolfy42 posted [p:932103871] in Bah, it ma... [t:78285053]...</cite> <quote>Metalsonic66 posted... </cite> <quote>Most stores in my area have it, but you may have to check the deli</quote> Yeah I mainly shop at Safeway although I do hit Fred Meyers and Winco now sometimes. None of them have whole milk mozz or have for along time. Safeway used to, but it's been years. That was a big drop in the taste of my lasagna right there, but yeah my sauce has just......plummeted in taste. I don't know what I'm doing different (or I would change it) but I used to rate it over the best itallian places and somewhere like Olive garden didn't even come close, and now I would almost prefer the olive garden to my sauce (and it's WAY freaking less work). Not sure what changed, maybe it's partially my taste buds as well.....and I know I don't put in as much effort, but there are other factors as well. I don't get the mix of itallian sausage and ground beef right (like this time there was too much sausage for sure), and I don't think I'm cooking the sauce as long (i literally only cooked it on the stove (the ground beef and sausage) then added the sauce (Prego) and simmered it for the time it took to boil the water and cook the noodles. I used to slow cook the sauce all day with a bell pepper in it to flavor it, I added wine and let that reduce, and I don't remember the spices I used, but I used bay leaves and that was the first thing I stopped using years ago. Anyway the difference is amazing and it didn't happen over night, I built up an epic sauce over decades, making it since I was in my late teens, and then it started to go downhill about 5 years ago or so, but while it took 25 years or so to master, it seems like it takes only a few for it to fade away. --- Zangulus "I try to avoid having any knowledge at all of his dick." Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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