Focaccia topped with meatballs, bowl of spaghetti with sauce, bowls of lasagna soup

Long-Lost Sauce

On cold February evenings, a chef warmed up with her father’s signature spaghetti sauce. Now, she has rediscovered the recipe that defined her childhood winters.

bowl of spaghetti topped with sauce.

Dad’s Spaghetti Sauce

In the doldrums of winter, Our State recipe developer Lynn Wells remembers a pot of her father’s spaghetti sauce simmering all day on the stove. Her re-creation of it doesn’t take nearly as much time, but the flavors take her back those childhood winters.