Today we're canning tomatoes and making sauce .... stay tuned!

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So full disclosure: these aren't our own tomatoes. We don't have enough in our garden, and the ones we have this year are still green.

Picked up these beautiful plum tomatoes this morning from @ConfredaFarms in Hope, Rhode Island boxes of tomatoes
Here's the machine that does the magic. It separates the seeds and skin and leaves the passata (because it passes through the machine, I assume). Image
Does it have a special name in English? Boh. I asked my mother-in-law what it's called in Sicilian. She shrugged and said, "the machine to make tomatoes!" Ok, easy enough! 😂🍅🍅
After washing and splitting, it's time to boil and reduce! This takes a while. tomatoes in big pots on a s...
At this point, the smell of cooking tomatoes begins to fill the house. Image
Then the fun begins! Cranking the reduction through "the machine that makes tomatoes" to separate the skin and seeds from the pulp--in other words, passing them through the machine, leaving what's left called "passata". This part gets messy! Image
Next it's time to fill up the bottles. We use old soda and beer bottles -- and from the looks of it my suocera has had some of these for a few decades! ImageImage
Then cap the bottles.

Now I'm faced with the question: what is the better thing to fill a Guiness bottle with? Image
Finally boil the bottles until they seal. Image

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