I love Thanksgiving. My favorite holiday.
No gifts, only being grateful, having family together and great food.
This year, my wife and I agreed to make a couple of
lasagnas together rather than turkey or her famous homemade ravioli (she’s half Italian and learned from grandma). Homemade sauce being a long process, I agreed to be responsible for making the sauce and preparing the meat. (She’s making the pasta and five or six pies from scratch— 3 pumpkin, 2 apple and a strawberry rhubarb. Hmm. As good as her ravioli are, her pies are off scale incredible.)
I love really good tomato sauce, although
really good is hard to find. So, I did a practice run on Friday, having never done this before.
Seven pounds of Roma tomatoes yields about a quart of final product. Here’s some photos of my adventure.
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First batch came out wonderful. It was not difficult. Only took about four hours, including mixing and making the meatballs. On Thanksgiving day, I’ll have to get up by 6 to start about 18 pounds of tomatoes.
Here’s my mentor, Gina:
She inspired me.
Anybody else making other than turkey?
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