# tomato-saucey
## English
### Adjective

tomato-saucey (comparative more tomato-saucey, superlative most tomato-saucey)
* Alternative form of tomato-saucy.
** 1968 August 21, S.S. Pierce Company, “The Epicure Corner”, in Boston Evening Globe, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., page 3:For a glorious garnish, mate the tomato-saucey chops with broiled tomatoes.
** 1986 November 27, “Good food”, in Calendar (The Hartford Courant), Hartford, Conn., page 7:For palates educated on tomato-saucey southern Italian cuisine, Casagrande’s will be a revelation.
** 1989 June 16, Jeff Guinn, “Garden good for children”, in Star Time (Fort Worth Star-Telegram), Fort Worth, Tex., page 4, column 2:The lasagna was the favorite this visit — a thick, tomato-saucey square oozing melted cheese and bits of sausage.
** 1990 December 5, Barbara Gibbons, “Calorie-watchers can splurge on pasta”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Oh., page F-6, column 1:Try these linguini dishes for something different! There’s nothing tomato-saucey about them.
** 1998 January 7, Dawn O' The Dead, “Pizza Night: Wed, Jan 14, 7PM, Flying Pie Pizza”, in pdx.singles‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-07:I also worked at a place for awhile with a big wood oven and _made_ pizzas n' calzones and such. I don't hate it, but the standard doughy, tomato-saucey, rubbery cheese thing just doesn't do it for me anymore.
** 2000 December 29, John Kessler, “Chips are never down with Chevys’ salsa”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., page Q6:I don’t have much to say about the huge steak and cheddar cheese quesadilla called a “Buenos ’Dilla” or the tomato-saucey tortilla soup. They are neither bad nor good.
** 2005 August 12, Curly Sue, “Caponata”, in rec.food.cooking‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-07:The original recipe called for: / 1 (32-ounce) can diced tomatoes / 1 (14-ounce) can crushed tomatoes / But I used 3 diced Roma tomatoes instead. I didn't want it too tomato-saucey.
** 2008, Good Housekeeping, volume 246, numbers 3–6, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, page 19:My husband, my 4-year-old daughter, Lucy, and I had decided to try a new pizza place in the neighborhood as a way of beginning to relax into our weekend. And in the middle of her first slice, Lucy looked up at me, grinned a tomato-saucey grin, gestured to Jim, and said out of the blue, “That’s the man I love!”
** 2012, Deb Caletti, The Story of Us, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 29:Something tomato-saucey was cooking downstairs, but I didn’t see Rebecca Rose or anyone else.
** 2016, Chrissy Teigen, Cravings: Recipes for All of the Food You Want to Eat, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 80:She taught me that a cup of olive oil needs to be sacrificed in the name of the tender, melt-in-your-mouth eggplant that goes into this crusty, cheesy, tomato-saucey baked pasta dish.
** 2017, Tristan Bancks, Gus Gordon, My Life and Other Weaponised Muffins (Tom Weekly; 5), Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, published 2018, →ISBN, page 17:But, just at that moment, Barney slaps me hard across the face with his tomato-saucey little hand. I wipe the sauce off, look him square in the eye, and say, ‘No, Mrs D. Big boy not a liar. […]’
** 2018 March 1, Emily Teel, “In Medford, Cielito Lindo isn't trendy, but it's well worth the trip”, in Courier-Post‎, Cherry Hill, N.J., archived from the original on 6 November 2023:Regulo’s mom’s recipe, it’s potent and citrusy and so different from the usual dark red tomato-saucey salsa and tricolor chips that one might typically see in such applications.