A Little Vanilla Will Amplify The Spice In Tomato Sauce - Chowhound

Adding vanilla to tomato sauce is a trick that shouldn't work — not at first glance — but it does. Vanilla is a little bit of a magic ingredient. It's good for rounding out a batch of cookies or taking a classic vanilla buttercream frosting to the next level; but its sweet, sometimes spicy flavor notes are found in some unexpected places too, like an oak barrel-aged bourbon. Vanilla complements everything from…