I recently met up with some friends that I hadn’t seen for a few months and we started making dumplings and pasta for dinner. We didn’t have enough dumpling wrappers so we cooked some pasta. However, we didn’t have any pasta sauce since we ate the TikTok tomato feta pasta the night before. So, we mixed the remaining dumpling filling with the pasta and added some olive oil to make an additional dish.
While this was happening, I brought up the fact that when I run out of pasta sauce, I sometimes use ketchup, mayonnaise, and sriracha as a substitute. After I said this, my friends rained shame on me and I felt that I had disrespected Italian culture, even though I don’t think that the substitute sauce is actually that bad. It’s definitely better than plain pasta. In an attempt to gain back their respect, I mentioned that I also add hummus to my tomato based pasta sauce in order to make the sauce more creamy and flavorful. This attempt was futile – their respect for me evaporated. Just the thought of adding hummus to the tomato based pasta sauce was blasphemous and deserved ridicule.
I took it and tried to understand where they were coming from, but I was unable to. So, I ask you, the reader, am I a kitchen nightmare or are these valid pasta sauce ideas?
Note: I do not make these pasta sauces for anyone besides myself to eat.
Jeffrey's Thoughts 