Product: Dave’s Gourmet Organic Red Heirloom Pasta Sauce – $7.99+
You know…sometimes shelling out a few extra dollars for a quality product is well worth it. The most difficult part is justifying trying that product in the first place.
Luckily, my roommate and I familiarized ourselves with Dave’s Gourmet pasta sauces back when we found them on sale at our local natural foods store. Yes…these are quite pricey. But as we discovered after our first taste of the Butternut Squash pasta sauce…the flavors, texture, and taste all stand up for themselves. So yeah…the price tag…worth it.
With the epicness of the Butternut Squash pasta sauce still in our minds, we set out to try another one of Dave’s Gourmet pasta sauces. Why not? We were blown away by our first try. Why not tempt the foodie gods a little and give another flavor a go. The difficult part was deciding on what sauce to coat our spaghetti with.
We finally opted for the Organic Red Heirloom Pasta Sauce.
This time, the decision was to simply dress up some gluten-free rice noodles. Nothing fancy. No lasagna or stuffed shells. Nothing full of other flavors. We wanted to taste the simplicity. That’s the best way to tell the standard of a sauce. Eat it as it is meant to be.
And this sauce is nothing short of stunning. It has a very fresh taste that allows you to really get the hints of garlic, fresh herbs and, the star feature…the organic heirloom tomatoes. It has a very mild flavor to it and it isn’t heavy like the butternut squash version of Dave’s Gourmet sauces. This one is just a simple tomato sauce that is bursting with flavor. It’s light and pairs perfectly with a sprinkling of fresh Parmigiano-Reggiano, gently sauced over simple pasta noodles. It’s not too thick and not too thin, but shows evidence of the bits of onion and tomato that are incorporated into it.
For a light tomato sauce to stand up on its own and really just wow you, there has to be something special about it. With a short list of ingredients, there doesn’t seem to be anything wow-worthy in this sauce. The fact of the matter is, Dave’s Gourmet is doing everything right with their sauces and something this simple to resonate on the palate speaks volumes.
Trust me, while it’s not always easy to justify the price tag for a product, when you find something that really stands up and smacks your taste buds around…then…it’s worth the extra cost. For me, Dave’s Gourmet is always worth a few extra dollars. It’s ramping up pasta to a new level…and it’s all in the sauce.
The Celiathlete 