pizza/marinara sauce recipe??

[freemotion]

BTW, when I made tomato soup this year, I DID puree that in a blender and then strain it. Other than that, skins all the way.

For some reason, I don't mind raspberry seeds or potatoe skins in my mashed, but little rolled up tomato skin bits bug me bigtime!

So excuse me for being dense.....if you put them through the blender, what were you straining out? Skin bits and seeds? Or just going for super-smooth? And in a wire screen-type strainer?

As an experience tomato-smoosher, do you think I can make all my sauce, etc (wanna make barbecue sauce and ketchup, too) with blender-squished tomatoes?

And is it tomatoes, tomatos, or what???? Why can I never remember?????

 

[me&thegals]

Tomatoes and potatoes Remember Gore?

I only did 10 quarts of soup, so I just pureed in my regular smoothie blender and then strained through a hand-held metal strainer, using the back of a larger spoon to smoosh the soup through. It caught the seeds and skins. More like a mash of skins and seeds, since they are already blended.

Sure, you could blend, strain and then cook down tomatoes for sauce and ketchup. Personally, I like to speed up the process by just dumping in some store-bought paste. I've also seen clamp-on counter thingies for sieving tomatoes. I use that sort of thing for making applesauce, but they have tomato abilities too

If you're not sure about the skins, maybe you could just try a couple jars of whatever you're making with the skins on and see how prominent they are to you. I find them barely noticeable, but maybe that's because they don't bother me at all. I mean, they're not getting stuck in my teeth or anything.

 

[freemotion]

Great feedback. I'm gonna try it. Since your teeth are obviously so clean, I expect mine will be, too.

 

[me&thegals]

I always wonder this: Does this venison actually taste good, is this whole-wheat bread actually tasty, are the potato and tomato skins really not that noticeable, or am I a complete nut, totally used to my own ways and everyone else is gagging???

Seriously, though, I've been serving this chili and salsa all winter to my friends and family, most of whom are not total granola types, and they have been very happy with it.

clean-toothed me&thegals

 

[freemotion]

I always wonder this: am I a complete nut???

You don't REALLY want me to comment on that, do you???

 

[me&thegals]

oops--Guess I just placed a big "KICK ME" sign on my back

 

[Mackay]

My pizza sauce recipe is similar except I like the tang that cumin brings to it along with the rest.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

It wasn't Gore who couldn't spell potato, me&thegals, it was Dan Quale (sp?). Sorry, just couldn't let that one go.

I am looking for a tomato sauce recipe for water bath canning. Simple is fine . . . if I want to use it I can add spices later (after opening the can). I have a bare bones recipe somewhere . . . . I just noticed that the garden tomato recipe, which looks good, does not have canning instructions, which makes me wonder if it is safe to water bath can?