A Creative Kitchen

Jun 21

Our seasonal Strawberry Marinara, made with tomatoes, sweet onions, strawberries and Calabrian chilies

It’s late June which means Pride Month is in full-swing which also means time to cook up more of our Strawberry Marinara in honor of the happy season!

And, NO, this recipe does not hail from Italy.

Most of our recipes actually don’t. We get asked that a lot because people are so curious to hear about origins since most of what we produce is different than the average jarred pasta sauce out there. Hey, you’re not wrong. Our sauces and condiments are different as is the Saucery and why you all love us.

Have you walked down the pasta sauce aisle at your local grocery store lately? The entire section is beige from branding to personality and (with a few brands) even sauce color. EEW! Have you also noticed how all of them jar the same recipes? I mean, how many arrabiata sauces do we need? We here at the Saucery say Basta! Enough with these generic formulas already!

Our main differentiator in this outdated category of ours is creating unique sauces that are inspired by tradition but not traditional at all. Like our Seaweed Marinara, for example. Trust me, there’s no Italian grandmother out there cooking sauces that uses fresh kelp, enoki mushrooms and miso. I know quite a few and it ain’t happening!

Here’s an image from one of the leading natural grocery chains in the country to give you a sense of the lack of personality in our overly-saturated (with-the-same-recipe) category.

At the end of the day, it’s always about the technique anyway and never really the recipe. Technique is key! Anyone can make an arrabiata sauce but the technique, as they say, is the proof in the pudding. Our approach to every product we handcraft is a slow one (we actually won the Snail of Approval in 2014). We do not use processed or precooked ingredients and fillers like most sauces out there.

Our technique is tried and true and has been used in home kitchens worldwide for years. This is also why our sauces and condiments taste homemade. We pour nothing but attention and love into each and every one of them, slowly.