Hi guys, it's Kendra. I'm so glad you're here listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast.

I am here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode, episode 20, the Lazy Genius makes tomato sauce. Here's the pitch.

Tomato sauce is a central, central integral super, super, super important tool to your cooking arsenal.

And it's way more versatile than you think. So in the playbook today, we're going to do three things.

We are going to talk about why tomato sauce and a jar is totally fine, but you don't have to do it that way.

Number two, why tomato sauce is king of panic dinners. It is a viking. Please don't ignore it.

And then the last thing, we're going to list 11 ways to use sauce that don't involve pasta.

Let's do this. And I feel like it's important for me to say before we get too far into this that I say tomato sauce.

And it sounds really southern when I say it several times in a row, like I just have been tomato, tomato.

So get out of your system. Yes, I say tomato sauce. I've been trying to say tomato.

And I will do a choke over it. So it's tomato sauce. Here we go.

All right. So why is jar sauce fine? It's totally, totally fine. Right. You can buy jars of sauce. Some of them are even really good.

When I smell prego, it is, I'm eight years old again. Like that smell is magical. Now the taste is never as good as I remember.

It's so sweet. But there's nothing wrong with jar sauce. It's convenient. It's very dependable. You know, it always tastes the same.

Whatever brand you buy, it always tastes the same from jar to jar. And you have like flavor options sometimes, which it's, you know, if you want to like play around things.

So there's don't feel guilty about using jar sauce, like at all. And if you coupon well, or if you buy a trader Joe's or something like that, a lot of jars are like a couple bucks, which is a really good price. Like that's totally fine.

And when you make homemade sauce, it's not significantly cheaper. Now if you are able to get those honken jars of crushed tomatoes, a Costco that costs like seven cents that could feed an army, then yeah, it's a lot cheaper.

But if you're just buying a can of tomatoes, especially for you food network watchers in the past, do you remember how everything was San Marzano tomatoes for a of our, well, those suckers are like $4.

It's more expensive. And you have to make the sauce like how annoying is that? So I understand I hear your, I hear your internal dialogue where you're like, please don't make me make sauce. Please don't make me make sauce. I'm not.

When we get to the 11 ways to use sauce that don't involve pasta, you can use a jar like 100%.

But here's why I personally like to make my sauce. Of course, I have a couple jars in the pantry for like emergencies, or if I'm holding a screaming baby and chopping garlic, it's just out of the question.

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