Homemade San Marzano Gourmet Marinara Sauce

Description

Pasta Sugos
(sauce in Italian)
is a family owned and operated sauce company that produces homemade sauces, the first of which is an Italian marinara (marh-da-nadh) pasta sauce made from San Marzano tomatoes and fresh locally sourced ingredients.
Our family roots start in Italy, specifically, Calabria in Southern Italy.  In the early 1900s our Great Grandparents emigrated to The United States through Ellis Island and settled in Upstate New York.  Our Great Grandmother’s recipes were handed through the generations.  Growing up in our Italian family meant that a good deal of our lives revolved around food and there was no shortage of great recipes!  Among them were many great sauce recipes.  We remember Grandma taking the fresh tomatoes from the garden to make her best marinara sauce.  The aroma in the house of fresh, garlic, onions, basil and tomatoes was mouthwatering.  We couldn’t wait for it to be done so we could eat (mangia, mahn-jah).
In 1997 our family left its roots in New York to relocate to Raleigh, NC.
We continued our food traditions and retained the closely guarded family recipes of our Italian ancestors.
As our family grew and new friends were made, we heard over and over how uncommonly delicious our pasta sauces were, followed by the question of “how do you make this?”
Never giving up the recipe, we would simply say, some day we will bottle them all so everyone can enjoy!
Well, that day has finally come to life.
On December 1
st
, 2020 we completed all the steps required to officially bottle our original family recipe for “Marinara Sauce”!
Our “first simmer” as we call it, was successfully made on December 4, 2020!
The recipe and process were closely guarded and meticulously followed with the oversight of our family matriarch.
Those involved in the process were legally bound and sworn to uphold the secrecy of the ingredients and the process.
While the days of watching Grandma, hand crush the fresh picked tomatoes are cherished memories, our family has been working on a small scale, low impact, organic gardening on their 50-acre local farm.
The hope is that one day soon all the ingredients of our sauces will be not only locally sourced, but personally grown as well.
Be on the lookout for pasta Sugos next big sauce release, New York Riggie Sauce!