Professor Kyle
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Homemade, canned tomato sauce recipe.

Step 1: plant, nurture, and harvest sauce tomatoes (these are Amish paste), peppers, onions, garlic, basil, oregano. Can be done lots of places you might not think – container gardens! Community gardens!
02:30 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Step 2:

Blanch the tomatoes to remove the skins. Food process them in batches along with all the other stuff.
03:22 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Step 3: Put on some good tunes, like your "Making Sauce" playlist. Actually this should have been step 1, but better late than never...

Excited to add to this playlist with all the songs people suggested on my "good songs about food" prompt!
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Step 4: put all the processed ingredients in a big-ass sauce pan. Add salt & bring to a boil. Reduce to a summer and, well, simmer for a wicked long time stirring occasionally. At least an hour, depending on...how long it takes, and thick you like your sauce.
03:49 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)
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Step 5: Like I said, it'll take a while. You're basically just sitting around, but you can't go anywhere because you have to stir occasionally. So it's a good time to have a glass of wine, if you're into that.
03:51 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)
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Step 6: Again, lot's of time to kill. Be sure to step out onto the screen porch and note the rain's stopped, the day is fine, and, in the words of Digable Planets, it's good to be here 🎵.¹

1. or the equivalent if you don't have a porch or good weather.
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Step 7: Once the sauce has been stirred occasionally enough & cooked enough for your liking (again, at least an hour; I did this for 1:15), ladle into clean, sterile jars (pints are better than quarts for serving size...).
05:27 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)
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Step 8: Forgot to mention: like 20+ minutes ago, put on water to boil in a huge pot, like the kind you have on a wood stove to keep the house humid in winter (they also make pots just for canning...). Put the jars in the boiling water & boil pints 35 minutes (quarts 40, longer at higher altitude).
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Step 9: That's that! Take the jars out with tongs & set them somewhere to cool, then store in your pantry. You'll love when the lids "pop"! Use for pasta, pizza, soup or chili base, risotto, etc. And enjoy this alchemy trick: you can now experience the vibrancy of summer in the depths of winter.
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Jason Carton
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thoughts of joy
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love this thread!
11:15 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Professor Kyle
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☺️
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ML Hart
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Looks a bit like my kitchen this weekend - same ingredients for making tomato sauce to put in bags and freeze. I also add finely diced carrots and red peppers - and I forgot I need 1 more onion, have everything else, though.
05:56 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)
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Professor Kyle
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In response to ML Hart.
Nice!
05:57 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Cow on a Keyboard Playing Starfield
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How long does step 1 take, 5 minutes? 10?
05:47 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Cow on a Keyboard Playing Starfield.
Step 1 takes a lifetime. 😆
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Bev Turner
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Well done, so to speak.
05:34 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Bev Turner.
Thanks! Another 30 minutes or so and it will be done!
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Bev Turner
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Well done, so to speak!
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Boadicea TX
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That there is some delishosness waiting to happen.
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Baked At Grammy's
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Great job! I hope to resume gardening next year. I didn’t eat anything I had growing when we had the fires in 2020 (Northern CA lightening strikes); everything everywhere was covered in ash.
04:34 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Baked At Grammy's.
Oh no, that's horrible! It's so much fun to grow & cook your own veggies.
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AssiduousRabbit
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Can you tell us how you prepare your jars for canning - Though I canned as a child, I find that part intimidating as all get out
04:07 PM - Aug 18, 2023
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Professor Kyle
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In response to AssiduousRabbit.
I honestly just wash them in hot soapy water. I used to boil them or heat them in the oven to sterilize, but when covid hit and they talked so much about how soap & water kill/get rid of pretty much everything, I figured that was enough. They also are boiled while canning for 40 minutes...
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ravenbeagle
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Ooh that’s gonna be good…!!
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