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What To Do with Forty Pounds Of Tomatoes - Grandma's Tomato Sauce & Roasted Tomato Sauce

9/22/2013

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Last week, Robert and I decided to tackle some tomatoes from his garden. He came over with a variety of ripe, just-picked heirloom and smaller tomatoes  We decided to make two different kinds of tomato sauce.  One of the recipes had been in my canning folder for years. It came from a 2006 Gourmet magazine article named "Grandma’s Tomato Sauce" and was edited by Edith Guerino.  I changed the recipe a bit by adding more sugar and a large carrot to offset the acidity. It turned into a wonderful creamy sauce.  For the second sauce recipe, I used Alton Brown’s recipe but changed several ingredients and how the sauce was roasted and completed.  The roasted sauce has a tart flavor but a rich tomato taste and is great to put over fish.  Robert brought his tomato device that separates the seeds and the skin from the fruit, a clever machine that saved us time and aggravation. I made a large faro salad with tomatoes and herbs using Giada De Laurentis' recipe.  For over a week, I kept the tomatoes on a cookie sheet in my cold downstairs office. One night I made a platter of tomato slices with mozzarella and another night we had lamb chops with Julia Child’s "Tomates A La Provençal."  Absolutely delicious!

A Wonderful Appetizer 

Here are some thick sliced tomatoes on a bed of lettuce, topped with fresh mozzarella, pesto, slow -baked tomatoes, and sprinkled with fresh basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and salt and pepper.
 I have been slow roasting tomatoes for several years.  I use them like a marmalade on different appetizers. They taste great just by themselves and keep in the refrigerator for about a week .
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These are the tomatoes I roasted for my tomato sauce. I saved  some to use  throughout the week.

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The perfect lunch—a fried egg with a roasted tomato and leftover faro salad.

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Robert is making sauce from his homegrown tomatoes.
Grandma's Tomato Sauce
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This is a rich delicious sauce, perfect on pasta. I had it with eggplant ravioli, it was superb. I spooned every last drop from my plate. One could make a soup out of it. This sauce brings out the ripe flavorful taste of tomatoes.
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This machine is terrific, separating the seeds and skin from the sauce
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Adding the basil
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The finished sauce
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Ingredients:
The recipe yields about 8 cups of sauce

Only use ripe tomatoes
1 TBS of salt
1 ½ TBS sugar
10 Ib tomatoes, cored and quartered
6 garlic cloves, peeled and lightly smashed
1 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves
1 large carrot
 
½ to 1 cup olive oil
Directions:

Toss washed and quartered tomatoes with salt and sugar in a large bowl, let them stand for 15 minutes.
Robert and I put the tomatoes through our  machine to separate the skin and seeds from the sauce. The recipe in Gourmet used a food processor after the sauce was cooked and cooled or you can use a food mill fitted with a fine disk. My Italian neighbor peels the tomatoes. 
Cook garlic in oil in a large pot over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, 3 to 5 minutes, then discard garlic. Add tomato mixture and basil, stirring to combine . Bring to a boil, covered, then reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, stirring more frequently toward end of cooking, until sauce is thickened and reduced , about 2  hours or longer, discard the carrot.  Cool the sauce and ladle into containers and freeze the next day
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Guten Appetit!
Recipe  from Edith Guerino  
Gourmet Magazine 2006
By © Sunnycovechef
Roasted Tomato Sauce
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​This is a tart, hearty sauce. We doubled the recipe and later in the week I made another batch. I kept some of the roasted tomatoes in a container and used them throughout the week. Yummy and easy to make.
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Ingredients:

This recipe makes about 4 cups of sauce

20 Tomatoes, halved and seeded

1/2 cup olive oil

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1 cup finely diced onions

2 TBS minced garlic

2 TBS finally chopped oregano leaves

2 TBS chopped thyme leaves

2 TBS sage leaves
Direction:

Preheat oven to 325

Spray two cookie sheets with Pam. Place tomatoes cut side up on the sheets. Sprinkle with oil, salt and pepper, onion, garlic, and herbs. I put most of my sage leaves on the bottom of the sheet. Bake the tomatoes for about two hours. Cool the tomatoes and process through a food mill or food processor. We used our magic separator. Freeze or use.


Guten Appetit
 adapted from Alton Brown's tomato sauce
by©sunnycovechef.com
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