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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

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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Step 2:

Blanch the tomatoes to remove the skins. Food process them in batches along with all the other stuff.

Food processor with de-skinned tomatoes. Beside it is a bowl with cooling tomatoes in ice water and a cutting board with chopped garlic, a pan with the sautéed peppers & onions, & the basil & oregano

03:22 PM - Aug 18, 2023

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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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!

Screenshot of an Apple Music playlist with all songs about cooking & food (e.g. "Let's call the whole thing off," "Homegrown tomatoes," and "Come on in my kitchen."

03:40 PM - Aug 18, 2023

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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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.

Sauce pan full of the boiling tomato sauce on a glass-top electric stove

03:49 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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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.

My hand holding a glass of (also homemade!) red wine in front of the kitchen counter

03:51 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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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.

Overlooking a backyard garden, trees, bushes, & lawn, the neighbor's house, and a blue sky with clouds edged with light

04:00 PM - Aug 18, 2023

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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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...).

Pint canning jars full of tomato sauce on a cutting board on a wooden countertop, with lids next to them.

05:27 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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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).

Big pot full of boiling water on the stove with 5 lidded jars of sauce sitting in it

05:37 PM - Aug 18, 2023

Professor Kyle

@blackcatprose

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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.

5 jars of tomato sauce sitting on a cutting board

06:10 PM - Aug 18, 2023 (Edited)

Baked At Grammy's

@bakedatgrammys

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.

In response to Professor Kyle.

04:34 PM - Aug 18, 2023