With an Italian mum, making Passata or Sugo is a family tradition. I've tried store bought sauce but it pales horrendously in comparison. In fact I would rather go without, if I run out of our home made sugo. My mum lives in Adelaide and our family is scattered around Australia ... every February the entire family convenes into mum's place to make a year's worth of supplies which we all then ship back to our various homes. Check out my family's little factory line of
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