Preserving the Harvest: Rich Italian Tomato Sauce

by Shari@puregrace

I have made many different types of tomato sauce over the years. There has been spicy sauce and plain sauce, sauce with vegies and sauce without, and sauces with every kind of seasoning imaginable. But the perfect tomato sauce was quite illusive until I came across a recipe last year by Canal House Cooking from William and Sonoma. Voila! Exactly the tomato sauce I was looking for. Nothing to tinker with in this recipe. Pure perfection.
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preserving the harvest rich italian tomato sauce, gardening, homesteading, The tomato flavor shines beautifully in this sauce and adapts easily to whatever I am cooking

The tomato flavor shines beautifully in this sauce and adapts easily to whatever I am cooking.

Fresh picked tomatoes makes for fresh tasting sauce.

Add onions, fresh herbs, and a touch of lemon. Pure perfection.

Flavor infused into the tomato sauce. Yum!

preserving the harvest rich italian tomato sauce, gardening, homesteading, All my jars lined up in a row Too bad this past years sauce is almost gone Can t wait for this years tomatoes to make up another batch

All my jars lined up in a row. Too bad this past years sauce is almost gone. Can't wait for this years tomatoes to make up another batch.

preserving the harvest rich italian tomato sauce, gardening, homesteading, Italian Tomato Sauce with Meatballs One of the recipes I make with this delicious sauce

Italian Tomato Sauce with Meatballs. One of the recipes I make with this delicious sauce. http://puregracefarms.com/2013/09/taming-the-blue-box/

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Sherrie on Feb 15, 2014
Beautiful! I always freeze mine...I don't have the knowledge to be a great canning expert! But this looks so wonderful and to pretty to eat!

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- Shari@puregrace on Feb 15, 2014
  @Sherrie Thank you. You are so kind. I have learned to do simple canning, but the pressure cooker canning still makes me nervous. I have also resorted to freezing too. I get to a point where I can't bring myself to can one more jar, and into the freezer it goes. :)
  
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- Sherrie on Feb 15, 2014
  @Shari@puregrace I am like you purchasing jars is a big investment. I have seen them at garage sales but I am scared of that also because I don't know how old they are...I know a little paranoid. And the new pressure cookers also scare me! But we have classes at our resource center and thought about taking classes there.
  
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- Shari@puregrace on Feb 15, 2014
  @Sherrie I am ready to branch out too. I will most likely by a brand new cooker because I want to make sure the pressure gauge is working properly. I know you can send it in to get it checked but that seems like to big of a hassle. As much as I am a do it yourselfer, this is one time a class would come in handy.
  
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Cindy tustin on Feb 15, 2014
Shari I have only been doing my own for 40 yrs on my own but my grandmother and my mother is where I learned to can, and I was always the helper. I don't slip my tomatoes I core and quarter I put them in my big stainless cooker and cook till soft. I fill the sieve and drain the watery juice off then I work tomatoes with sieve. Most of what i can is tomato sauce I add some sauce back to the juice for our vegetable drink. I process my sauce in a pressure canner.

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- Shari@puregrace on Feb 15, 2014
  @Cindy tustin I remember my Grandmother having a sieve with a big wooden crusher (I guess that is what it's called). I have one I found at a garage sale and have used it for applesauce a time or two. You are a lot like me I can tell, nothing goes to waste. I like making a spicy tomato juice to drink. Yum!
  
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- Cindy tustin on Feb 15, 2014
  @Shari@puregrace I think you are right. And that spicy tomato juice is one of our favorites in the winter I heat it up and serve it warm.
  
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- Shari@puregrace on Feb 15, 2014
  Sounds delightful!
  
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