Mutti Passata

This isn't a cookie! (Or else it's a very very bad one.) I got this tomato puree (passata for snobs) to replace pasta sauce/ketchup/manwich/other tomato things with added ingredos so that I could control my ingredient consumption. To that end, this is great: it's just tomato and a little salt. But it's also pricier than all the more dolled up things it replaces, I guess because it's clean & classy. Anyway, no issues, but also nothing special to recommend it besides what it doesn't contain! 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Mutti Simply Sugo Sauce - Grilled Vegetables

I only know Mutti from Tomato Paste, so it's no surprise that this sauce tastes a little bit like tomato paste! But, in a good(ish) way -- deep tomato flavor, almost bitterness. Definitely unique among pasta sauces. It's not especially sweet even though sugar is an added ingredient, and there are nice chunks of zucchini and eggplant in there that you can actually taste (therefore I count this as a veg!). I think this is decent, and I like the savory vibe and small jar size. I wish there weren't sugar in it, and the taste isn't exactly what I like, but it's solid and I'd get it again if offered. BTW, "sugo" is Italian for sauce, but I can only read it as "simply sugoi!" which makes me giggle.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Mutti Double Concentrated Tomato Paste

Being a non-Italian chef, I wasn't sure what to do with this interesting toothpaste-like tube of tomato paste. The packaging is pretty rad, and it keeps for 20 days in the fridge once open, but still, most recipes I found to call for tomato paste only needed a tiny tiny bit. And I didn't want to spend 50$ on a bunch of random recipes just to use this up. So I used it as pizza sauce on a bunch of mini pizzas, because I'm not very creative! Added a little garlic and red pepper flakes and it did the job pretty well, plus was fun to squeeze out of the tube. This really is concentrated, not watery at all, and it did have a certain sweetness to it. I think it would make a cute little garnish on top of some small appetizers or something, though I can't imagine the specific case. But if you DO ever need tomato paste, this is a great choice!

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10