tomato-saucey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tomato-saucey
form: most tomato-saucey
Senses: examples: text: For a glorious garnish, mate the tomato-saucey chops with broiled tomatoes.
ref: 1968 August 21, S.S. Pierce Company, “The Epicure Corner”, in Boston Evening Globe, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., page 3:
text: For palates educated on tomato-saucey southern Italian cuisine, Casagrande’s will be a revelation.
ref: 1986 November 27, “Good food”, in Calendar (The Hartford Courant), Hartford, Conn., page 7:
text: The lasagna was the favorite this visit — a thick, tomato-saucey square oozing melted cheese and bits of sausage.
ref: 1989 June 16, Jeff Guinn, “Garden good for children”, in Star Time (Fort Worth Star-Telegram), Fort Worth, Tex., page 4, column 2:
text: Try these linguini dishes for something different! There’s nothing tomato-saucey about them.
ref: 1990 December 5, Barbara Gibbons, “Calorie-watchers can splurge on pasta”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Oh., page F-6, column 1:
text: I also worked at a place for awhile^([sic]) 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.
ref: 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 07 Nov 2023:
text: 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.
ref: 2000 December 29, John Kessler, “Chips are never down with Chevys’ salsa”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., page Q6:
text: 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.
ref: 2005 August 12, Curly Sue, “Caponata”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
text: 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!”
ref: 2008, Good Housekeeping, volume 246, numbers 3–6, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, page 19:
text: Something tomato-saucey was cooking downstairs, but I didn’t see Rebecca Rose or anyone else.
ref: 2012, Deb Caletti, The Story of Us, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 29:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.[…]’
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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 06 Nov 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of tomato-saucy.