After some experimenting, I decided this was the best way to freeze homemade tomato sauce: spoon it into silicone muffin cups, freeze those for a few hours, dump them out into a sealing freezer bag thingy and vacuum seal them in batches of 3 or 4!
We had an enormous crop of tomatoes this year. I made red sauces and yellow sauces! The main ingredients were:
onion (sauteed for a few minutes in a tsp of olive oil)
green pepper (also sauteed for a short while)
pepper
fresh basil
fresh thyme
Then for the yellow sauce I used various types of yellow tomatoes and added in some dry sherry...
for the red sauces I used several different red tomatoes (whatever I picked that week - roma, cherry, various heirlooms, etc.) and either dry sherry or a dry red wine. I also added some balsamic vinegar and rosemary to one of the red wine sauces.
I did not add any salt; it actually tastes really good without it, but sometimes if it needs a little bit of flavor I add a small sprinkle of salt when I heat it up after defrosting.
What did you do with tomatoes this summer/fall??
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A tomato sauce is any of a very large number of sauces made primarily out of tomatoes, usually to be served as part of a dish. Tomato sauces are common for meat and vegetables, but they are perhaps best known as sauces for pasta dishes.
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hesslei...
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They are also used in removing skunk odor.
I like tomato and basil and mozzarella cheese. Or maybe tomato soup? Now I'm hungry! I bet painting with tomatos would be interesting. But probably not what you were looking for. :)
I wonder if tomatos can be grown in any climate? I'll have to look into that.
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