#making sauce

[athomewithmrse]

Make Your Own Pasta Sauce or Curry Base

3 Freezer-Friendly Sauce Starters That Beat Any Jar If you’ve ever flipped a jar of pasta or curry sauce around and winced at the sugar content (or ingredient list), you’re not alone. While jars are convenient, they often come with preservatives, hidden sweeteners, and a flavour that’s… fine, but not fabulous. The good news? You can make simple, freezer-friendly sauces from scratch — in bulk,…

Make Your Own Pasta Sauce or Curry Base

[moonlightonmarigolds]

That was. Close.

[photo id: a large, dark blue stock pot, filled to just below the rim with chopped tomatoes. ]

[daltonvmarini]

I made 2 pounds of pasta and 6+ litres of sauce. Oh dear god my everything.

[the-convenient-cook]

Cooking tip: Careful when pan-cooking meat in thicker sauces, because the sauce can burn easily. Try thinner, liquid-y sauces (try Soy versus Hoisin, for example) or marinade the meat for 1/2 - 1 hour and wipe off the excess sauce before cooking. Or try the oven, if you have the time.

I learned this the hard way... :(

[retrollect-blog]

Retrollect Disc of The Week: Fresh Italian Sauce

Retrollect Disc of The Week

 Disc Title: Fresh Italian Sauce

Disc URL: http://my.rtr.lc/a73e38

Created By: Mess9411

This week, we’re featuring the disc, Fresh Italian Sauce. This disc really shows off how well Retrollect can be used to share an entire experience. It’s always tricky to show off an activity with a single picture, of course, and this disc proves the point. Turning tomatoes into fresh Italian spaghetti sauce has never looked so fun!

Created by user Mess9411, Fresh Italian Sauce features eight rich and beautiful images showcasing all the necessary steps of turning fresh tomatoes into fresh tomato sauce for your pasta or pizza. In this disc’s case, however, they used their new sauce on some pasta.

It all starts with six cases of tomatoes—still in the boxes that they had been packed in. Next step? All the tomatoes are unboxed and cleaned on the kitchen table with the whole family there to help, naturally. Now it’s time to stew those tomatoes. I can’t be sure of exactly what extra ingredients Mess9411 has added to the tomato stew at this point, but there definitely are a number of fresh items like green chives, onions, and other spices mixed in.

After stewing for an appropriate amount of time (pro tip: finding a recipe right now might be a good idea if you’re actually interested in making fresh Italian sauce), the whole batch of now-stewed tomatoes is dumped into a tomato strainer. After running the tomatoes through the strainer, you’re left with two products: the fresh sauce that you’re actually after and a lot of tomato innards and skins that you’ll probably want to toss.

When your tomato strainer’s collection bucket is filled with an ample amount of fresh tomato sauce, it’s canning time. (I’ve never made fresh tomato sauce myself, but I’m pretty sure that if I did, canning time would be the highlight of the entire process.) Once you have all your sauce canned, you’ll want to start refrigerating some, passing some out to friends, family and neighbors, and saving at least one whole can for tonight’s pasta that you’ll undoubtedly be enjoying later.

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