Buffs in the Kitchen: How to make red sauce “Tomatoes!” Whether its beefsteak, heirloom, hydroponic, roma or even grape (those pesky little guys), I will happily gobble them up with some salt, pepper and olive oil. As the tomato season draws to a saddening end, it is the perfect opportunity to stock your kitchen with tomatoes in one of its best forms: tomato sauce. When my Italian-American roommate brought home five boxes of spaghetti in one shopping run I was not surprised. Truthfully, I was a little underwhelmed. Seeing a bottle of Prego sauce though, that was an utter shock. That sugary imposter of red sauce making a home in our pantry? I think not.