A quick meatball sauce question

[Dave7]

Getting more into cookery and questioning some standard recipes.
I have made the meatballs.....they are in the fridge.
For the sauce Mrs Dave uses a simple recipe that I have always enjoyed but I want to make this "mine".
eg she always adds water but none of the online recipes mention it.. will sauce be too thick without it?
I have put plenty of garlic & spices in the meatballs...... should I do similar in the sauce or will that be overpowering?
Any other suggestions welcome.
Thanks

 

[jefmcg]

It's a matter of taste I would never add water to a tomato sauce, and would more likely cook it for longer to reduce and thicken it. Mrs Dave obviously likes a different sort of sauce than me.

I do not believe a thick garlicky sauce would overwhelm the meatballs, but I love garlic!

 

[Slick]

Mrs Slick swears by lots of onions and a little sugar.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Buy a potted basil and put a handful in at the very last moment before serving. Instant tomato & basil sauce. Nothing wrong imho with adding a little water to an over-thick tomato sauce.

 

[Pale Rider]

There's a tomato assumption going on here.

The OP doesn't say what the base of his sauce is.

 

[TVC]

If it is a tomato sauce then stick in a small squirt of tommy ketchup, you won't taste it, but it helps round out the flavour.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

There's a tomato assumption going on here.

The OP doesn't say what the base of his sauce is.

You don't think he's only gone and done a cheese sauce do you

 

[Pale Rider]

You don't think he's only gone and done a cheese sauce do you

Meat and cheese is an interesting one.

I like a cheeseburger, but wouldn't eat those two ingredients together in any other way.

 

[Salty seadog]

Meat and cheese is an interesting one.

I like a cheeseburger, but wouldn't eat those two ingredients together in any other way.

Steak with a blue cheese sauce....

 

[Pale Rider]

Steak with a blue cheese sauce....

A bit rich for my refined taste.

Further, a cheeseburger should only be made with relatively mild and tasteless processed cheese slices.

Some restaurants use proper cheese, which doesn't work.

 

[Dave7]

Buy a potted basil and put a handful in at the very last moment before serving. Instant tomato & basil sauce. Nothing wrong imho with adding a little water to an over-thick tomato sauce.

Thanks.....but I only have one hour till lift off.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

A bit rich for my refined taste.

Further, a cheeseburger should only be made with plastic cheese slices.

Some restaurants use proper cheese, which doesn't work.

EFA - as we call them in our house

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Thanks.....but I only have one hour till lift off.

Oh don't worry, put it in one minute before serving

 

[Dave7]

There's a tomato assumption going on here.

The OP doesn't say what the base of his sauce is.

Quite correct....... I should have said but it is tomatoes

 

[Salty seadog]

A bit rich for my refined taste.

Further, a cheeseburger should only be made with relatively mild and tasteless processed cheese slices.



Some restaurants use proper cheese, which doesn't work.

Blue cheese again works wonders in a burger.
For me anyway.