The kitchen puts too much sauce on the pastas, and someone back there is applying the salt with a very heavy hand.

Put sauce through a strainer, pressing to extract as much liquid as possible.

The next step is to put sauce in the hole.

"You don't put sauce on while cooking," he said.

You put hot sauce on, and they're good to go.

A minute or so before pasta is done, put sauce over medium-low heat to warm it.

Put sauce through a food mill, using the coarsest disk.

"My dad thought, if you can't put hot sauce on it, it isn't worth eating," she said.

Put sauce around the side of the plate, not on top of the fish or potatoes.

Put sauce back over medium heat, and whisk in a tablespoon or two of water, just enough to loosen it.