By far our favourite spaghetti sauce is my home made meat sauce but next to that is roasted tomato sauce. The last couple of years I have been canning a plainer tomato sauce that captures some of the flavours of the meat sauce but without the meat. Seasoned with my organically, home grown herbs it has a lovely flavour and smooth texture. It is a versatile, mildly flavoured sauce that can be used for pasta, cabbage rolls or in any dish where you would use a tomato based pasta sauce.
I have a manual food strainer that I set up indoors or outside depending on the weather. Last year I splurged on the KitchenAid® food strainer attachment. The manual food strainer is more work but it is quite portable so I can set it up where I want. The KitchenAid® food strainer attachment is a lot less work and it gives a smoother product. The only real complaint that I have is the hopper is too small but there is an additional tray available that extends the hopper to hold more food. The second problem with the KitchenAid® food strainer is the set-up. Being short I have to stand on a stool to reach the hopper but that isn't KitchenAid®'s fault that is my parents for not giving me genes for a higher stature.
I used a full hamper (5/8 bushel) to make this spaghetti sauce. The tomatoes really would have been a bit of a pain to peel although they were a nice size for canning whole tomatoes. Running the first hamper through the food mill was an easy start to the tomato canning season.
I canned the sauce rather late in the evening while entertaining. Well actually my husband was entertaining and I just did the food while canning. I had strained the tomatoes the day before so all I had to do was put the sauce together and cook it. I do think it looks gorgeous in the jars but then I'm a bit biased. When making this tomato sauce reserve the skins and seeds for tomato powder and let drain to can up the excess liquid to make tomato stock.
3 food lovers commented:
My parents gave the tall jeans to my brothers. ;)
Your sauce looks really good. I'd buy it. :)
My grandmother had a hand strainer that I used to help her make applesauce with. :)
Thanks Linda :) A food strainer quite handy in the kitchen even if you don't can foods.
I had no idea Kitchen Aide made a food strainer! Thank you for letting me know.
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