Michelle Doll is a Brooklyn-based chef, food writer and culinary teacher. She's known in the New York area for her elegant cakes and her company Michelle Doll Makes. She says she has been accumulating kitchen tools and hacks for most of her life, and she shares her know-how in a new cookbook, "Essential Tools, Tips & Techniques for the Home Cook."
The book is organized around those tools and techniques. There are "tool" chapters on pressure cookers, blenders, sheet pans and Dutch ovens, and technique chapters on sauteeing and roasting. Each chapter gives pointers on the topic and then follows with recipes that demonstrate her lessons.
This Sunday Sauce is from the chapter on Dutch ovens. It's great over pasta; Doll says it also makes a killer sauce for lasagna and "freezes like a dream."
