Adjective
tomato sauce-y (comparative more tomato sauce-y, superlative most tomato sauce-y)
- Alternative form of tomato-saucy.
1999 July 28, Sarah Kennedy, “Personal taste: Fresh salsa! for snacking – and dancing, if you simply must”, in San Francisco Examiner, 135th year, number 40, San Francisco, Calif., Epicure section, page 4, column 3:Of all the like salsas I tried, this seemed the most authentic and balanced of its kind. In its stunning wake, others were too chunky, too artificially smoky, too tomato sauce-y.
2007 October 1, Sky, “I'm asking for trouble! Meatballs?”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-07:Anywho, recently for some peculiar reason, I've suffered a yen to make meatballs, and no tomato sauce-y stuff!
2008, Sam Zien, Sam the Cooking Guy: Just a Bunch of Recipes, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:White Pizza with Spinach and Garlic / Makes one 12-inch pizza / No red tomato sauce-y pizza—change is good, you know?
2010 April 30, Gil Kaufman, “El Jinete is another Southwestern option”, in The Enquirer, 170th year, number 21, Cincinnati, Oh., page E5, column 1:I ordered a hot and spicy burrito ($6.25), a manageable flour tortilla filled with poached chicken, ground beef, beans and rice and topped with chunks of beef tips, a tomato sauce-y deep red ranchero sauce and cheese.
2012 August 29, Kerry McDermott, “Nice way to ketchup with your mates: Revellers pelt each other with 120 tons of tomatoes in Spanish festival”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-08-30:Tomato sauce-y: A couple kiss amid the flying tomatoes at the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain, on Wednesday
2019 February 3, Craig LaBan, “Green Soul”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 190th year, number 248, Philadelphia, Pa., page H14, column 2:The jambalaya was too tomato sauce-y, in part because the multigrain base didn’t absorb the liquid as well as traditional white rice.