We’ve had almost a foot of snow today, which proved to be quite a pain when it came time for Julia to catch a train up here from Darien for the weekend. Her train from New Haven to Windsor locks was delayed by over two hours, so she didn’t arrive until after 11 p.m. Since most restaurants were closed, we swung by Stop & Shop to pick up a few supplies for dinner.
We decided to conduct a taste test. We bought five red sauces to try out – Sclafani Filetto Di Pomodoro, Francis Ford Coppola Presents Mammarella’s Pomodoro-Basilico, some type of Fra Diavolo sauce, Emeril’s Kicked Up Tomato sauce and Rao’s Homemade Marinara Sauce. In order to test the full range of flavors, we made fried mozzarella and angel hair pasta. We tasted each sauce with both dishes. We agreed completely on which sauces were best and worst. Here are our rankings, from best to worst.
- Rao’s Homemade Marinara sauce.
- Emeril’s Kicked Up Tomato sauce.
- Sclafani Filetto Di Pomodoro sauce.
- Francis Ford Coppola Presents Mammarella’s Pomodoro-Basilico sauce.
- Fra Diavolo.
Rao’s was very good, while the Fra Diavolo was completely disgusting, so we selected a fairly good range of sauces to try. We finished off our evening with a big slice of marble cake with chocolate and vanilla frosting that I had made earlier.
The sauces we tried.
Snow at the train station.
