Recipe Reblog

All summer, I've dreamed of harvesting a bushel of tomatoes and making tomato sauce to freeze and use all winter. Well, harvesting a bushel turned into picking the 9 red tomatoes available. This will have to do.

Fresh Tomato, Basil and Garlic Sauce: This recipe comes from Wolfgang Puck on the Food Network site so I figured it HAD to be good. I acquired a new skill too, peeling tomatoes. It was actually quite satisfying (though messy) to blanch them, dunk them in the ice bath and then peel. I worked really hard on this recipe. Way too hard for the 1 3/4 cups of sauce it yielded. I was so disappointed. That's not really even enough for 4 servings of spaghetti! Here's another thing, there's no salt in the recipe. Now, I'm not a salter but, hello Mr. Puck? What were you thinking? At first taste, it was quite bland. I wanted to cry. All my hard work for naught. I added some salt and that helped a little but it definitely didn't provide the miracle sauce I was dreaming of. At the end of the day, I'm glad I tried it. I froze what I made and we'll eat it at some point. But, I'm not holding onto this recipe. I'll try another one next summer........

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Fresh Tomato, Basil and Garlic Sauce: This recipe comes from Wolfgang Puck on the Food Network site so I figured it HAD to be good. I acquired a new skill too, peeling tomatoes. It was actually quite satisfying (though messy) to blanch them, dunk them in the ice bath and then peel. I worked really hard on this recipe. Way too hard for the 1 3/4 cups of sauce it yielded. I was so disappointed. That's not really even enough for 4 servings of spaghetti! Here's another thing, there's no salt in the recipe. Now, I'm not a salter but, hello Mr. Puck? What were you thinking? At first taste, it was quite bland. I wanted to cry. All my hard work for naught. I added some salt and that helped a little but it definitely didn't provide the miracle sauce I was dreaming of. At the end of the day, I'm glad I tried it. I froze what I made and we'll eat it at some point. But, I'm not holding onto this recipe. I'll try another one next summer........