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Deathwing

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How about just make pizza next time?


I realize that's a convenience food and maybe marrying an Italian has spoiled me, but everyone should try making their own tomato sauce. It's not quick, so you have to make a huge batch and freeze most of it to make the endeavor worthwhile. But much better than anything jarred.
 
Khane

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Who was it that posted that same exact recipe like 4 pages ago except using crescent rolls instead of garlic bread? I liked that recipe better.

Also, get that hipster fresh tomato sauce out of here. 95% of the people who "make their own sauce" used canned tomatoes as the base anyway so saying it's "so much better than the jarred stuff" is baloney.
 
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Khane_sl said:
Who was it that posted that same exact recipe like 4 pages ago except using crescent rolls instead of garlic bread? I liked that recipe better.

Also, get that hipster fresh tomato sauce out of here. 95% of the people who "make their own sauce" used canned tomatoes as the base anyway so saying it's "so much better than the jarred stuff" is baloney.
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Using canned tomatoes is a sin.

Making up my corn chowder for tonight, man is it horrible for you but Damn is it good during the cold winter months.
 
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Khane_sl said:
Who was it that posted that same exact recipe like 4 pages ago except using crescent rolls instead of garlic bread? I liked that recipe better.

Also, get that hipster fresh tomato sauce out of here. 95% of the people who "make their own sauce" used canned tomatoes as the base anyway so saying it's "so much better than the jarred stuff" is baloney.
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Tomatoes are better canned than "fresh." Tomatoes ripen on the vine and then pretty much immediately start to go bad. You can't refrigerate them, because they have a compound responsible for most of their flavor that turns off below like 43 F and then never turns back on. Outside of growing your own or literally getting them directly from a farmer the day they are picked (farmer's markets are the only realistic possibility of this for most people), cans are better. They are picked ripe and then immediately canned on site.
 
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We made homemade tomato sauce once from hand picked tomatoes. It wasn't good. It was basically super super diced up tomatoes, almost a sweet salsa. I am sure we screwed it up.
 
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Like Master said you either need to grow them or do the farmers market thing. Luckily I do both, my grandma would rise from the grave if I wasn't using fresh ingredients when doing homemade sauces.
 
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The problem with canned tomatoes is that perfectly ripe shitty tomatoes are still shitty tomatoes.
 
Lanx

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AB also says exactly what Master says as well, but i think it should be made clear that you should use whole canned tomatoes, not processed/chopped, cuz who knows wtf you're gettting.
 
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I've made sauce with canned tomatoes, with store bought tomatoes, and with home grown, freshly picked ripe tomatoes. You can't believe the difference it makes when you use the fresh, ripe, home grown tomatoes. Unreal.

But making it with store bought tomatoes in January in the north is no better than making it with canned.
 
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I preferred canned myself. The home-growns get eaten 'as is'. There are some VERY good brands of Italian canned tomatoes as well. Highly recommend.
 
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The trick with home grown is to grow so many that you can't possibly eat them all. Trust me, it's possible. We ate tomatoes until we couldn't possibly eat more, and still made tomato sauce AND salsa by the gallon.
 
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The problem with home grown is that I have to grow them...at home.
 
Lanx

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speaking of growing stuff, this year i'm gonna check out hydroponics/aeroponics or whatever the shit aerogarden is and make my own for herbs and shit. so far it seems this 5 gallon tub is a good guide.


they have a kit for 60ish bucks, amazon for some reason sells food grade buckets for 18bucks, while lowes sells em for 3bucks.

i don't have a green thumb, never planted shit, but this might work.
 
Deathwing

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Growing your tomatoes(or buying fresh from a farmstand) does taste better for sauce than canned, but it's even more of a pain in the ass than making your own sauce to begin with. Plus, if you're a heavy tomato sauce user(and why aren't you?), that means freezing/canning a LOT of sauce. Please don't make sauce from store-bought 'fresh' tomatoes. Being able to cook up a big batch every month or so from canned, whole, peeled tomatoes I feel is a good compromise where you get most of the benefit of making your own sauce but not the hassle of finding/growing, shocking, and peeling real fresh tomatoes. I believe that's why AB advocates canned tomatoes.


Or if you have slave labor like Lurking, just grow your own.
 
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Tomatoes are pretty easy to grow, actually. You have to be ready to deal with them all at once when they all ripen at the same time, and then keep producing for a month and a half.

In other news, chicken and waffles is a favourite meal with my kids. It's like biscuits and gravy, chicken style.
 
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Nothing is easy to grow in a townhouse. A big ass veggie/herb garden is on the 'to do' list once I get into a detached house. I'm hoping to sell by early 2016, but until then I guess I'll make sauce with canned tomatoes.
 
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Fair point. Do you have a balcony or deck? Have you tried tomato plants in a pot? I have three in pots on my deck that are all cherry or grape tomatoes. All summer long, whomever finds a ripe one gets to eat it. My kids eat those things like candy.
 
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