Saturday, January 18, 2014

The Tomato Sauce Caper



Have you ever wondered what goes into tomato sauce?  Besides the obvious, of course!  I must say, it is labor intensive, but the end result is worth it. 
I spent last weekend making homemade tomato sauce, with the help of my best friend.  We started with…



We cored, we scored, we peeled, we chopped…






And ended up with this…


Of course, when you undertake a project such as this, one must include…


We ended up with two pots of tomatoes, as the one stock pot was not big enough to hold all of the chopped tomatoes.  And then we started to cook the sauce...added salt, pepper, sugar, tomato paste (to thicken it some)…




That's my friend who helped me make the sauce.  I love her! 

And voila!  Sauce!

 
Sunday I canned the sauce…



So at the end of the weekend, I ended up with…

A trash can of tomato parts…


And 14 pints of sauce that I can use as a base for making all sorts of yummy goodness!



And a new use for the box the canning jars come in...
This is Cooper.  Anytime there is an empty box lying around...well, you get the idea!
 
 What is your favorite recipe that uses tomato sauce? Would you ever try to make your own?

5 comments:

  1. Awesome!... I would love to can, my mom and grandmother did, but I am so afraid of doing it wrong and botulism. My mother used to prepare/can spicy chili tomato sauce.. so good!... I wish I could prepare that. She didn't have a recipe for it.

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  2. It's easier than you think. I was afraid to try it at first myself but had a batch of jam turn out great. You just have to make sure you process the jars for the amount of time the instructions give.

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  3. Thanks for the response. I will have to learn more about it. You mentioned "make sure that you process the jars"... is that the sterilization part of it?

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  4. Thank you!... Happy canning, thank you for sharing, great blog!

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