Dehydrated sauce, by the sheet

Nonna’s sauce,
folded flat.

Real Italian sauces dried into thin sheets, each wrapped in Nonna’s recipe and filed in a binder with a mini whisk. Light enough for the trail, flat enough for a bookshelf, good enough to give, and good for up to two years on the shelf.

Packs flatA shelf of sauces in the space of a binder.

Keeps for two yearsSealed and shelf stable at room temperature.

Whisk it anywhereHot water, one minute, done.

Ships across North AmericaTo trailheads, cabins and front doors.

Our story

It started with my nonna’s marinara.

Nonnas don’t say “I love you” nearly as often as they say mangia. Mine was no different. Her love came in pots: sauce simmering all Sunday morning, a jar pressed into your hands on the way out the door, a second plate you never asked for. Of everything she made, her marinara was my favourite.

For a long time after her kitchen went quiet, I didn’t think much about the recipe. Then one night I tasted a marinara so close to hers that I had to put my fork down. That’s when I realised her sauce was worth keeping, and not just for a few days in the fridge. Longer than that. Long enough to share.

So I set out to make it last. That meant learning everything I could about drying food. My background is technical, so I took the standard dehydrator further, working on my own customisations to the usual setup until the sauce came back tasting the way it did on her stove, just flat enough to file in a binder.

Today her marinara, and the sauces that followed it, ship across North America. Every sheet still comes wrapped in a recipe, the way she would have handed it to you.

Grazie, Nonna.

How it works

Sauce that travels like paper.

Pull a sheet

Each sheet of sauce comes wrapped in Nonna’s recipe. Unwrap it, read what she says, tear it into the pot.

Whisk it in

A splash of hot water or pasta water and the mini whisk from the binder. A minute later it’s sauce.

Eat like you’re home

Toss it through pasta, spoon it over polenta, dip bread in it. On a mountain, in a van, in a studio flat.

The science

Dried slowly, so the flavour stays.

Every step is built to hold on to what makes a sauce taste like a sauce, and to keep it that way for a long time.

Low, gentle heat

The sauce dries slowly at a low temperature, so the bright tomato and fresh herbs keep all of their flavour.

Dried to last

Each sheet is dried to the point where it naturally stays fresh, the same science that keeps dried pasta and herbs good in the pantry. That is what makes it shelf stable.

Pure and oil-free

Every sheet is just the sauce and its herbs, oil-free, so it keeps its fresh taste for the long run. Add your favourite olive oil when you cook, the way Nonna would.

Sealed for freshness

Every sheet is sealed to hold in its colour, aroma and flavour until the moment you cook.

Our own design

We took standard dehydrators further with our own modifications, for even, consistent drying in every batch.

2 years Shelf life, sealed, at room temperature. Whisk into hot water and it’s sauce again.

The sauces

Six sheets to start.

Every sheet is wrapped in the recipe Nonna would make with it, from spaghetti to polenta.

Marinara di Nonna

Where it started. Tomato, garlic, oregano and basil, the way she made it.

Nonna’s recipe: Spaghetti alla marinara
Arrabbiata all'arrabbiata

Tomato and garlic with a proper chilli kick.

Nonna’s recipe: Penne all’arrabbiata
Basilico pomodoro e basilico

Sweet, bright tomato with a lot of basil.

Nonna’s recipe: Fresh tagliatelle al pomodoro
Pizzaiola alla pizzaiola

Tomato, oregano and garlic, made for meat or bread.

Nonna’s recipe: Steak or eggs alla pizzaiola
Peperonata di peperoni

Slow sweet peppers and tomato.

Nonna’s recipe: Polenta with peperonata
Funghi ai funghi

Porcini, tomato and thyme.

Nonna’s recipe: Rigatoni ai funghi

The binder

A sauce library you can carry.

The binder holds every sheet in its own sleeve, so your sauces sit on a bookshelf, not in the pantry.
The mini whisk clips to the spine, ready wherever the binder goes.
Nonna’s recipes wrap each sheet, so the binder fills up with her cooking as you go.

Wrapped in twine, it’s the gift for the camper, the cabin owner, the new apartment, the person who misses their nonna.

Refills

Used your last Pomodoro?

Refill sheets come in flat envelopes that slip through a mail slot. File them in the binder and you’re stocked again.

Meet Nonna

She has never met a kitchen she couldn’t cook in.

Not a campsite, not a cabin with one burner, not your first apartment. Nonna writes the recipe that wraps every sheet: what to cook it with, how long, and what she’d tell you while you stir.

“If you can boil water, you can make my sauce.”

First binders, coming soon

Get on Nonna’s list.

We’ll write once when the first binders are ready, and again if there’s something worth knowing. That’s it.

Nonna’s sauce,
folded flat.

It started with my nonna’s marinara.