* with help from 17 volunteers, using a church kitchen and a bakery’s ovens. We cut and roasted all the tomatoes, fried the onions + garlic, and chopped the carrots, celery, green + red pepper, pureed it, and then simmered to cook the veggies up. seasoned and added fresh parsley and basil before bagging up, and into the freezers! 30% of what was made is going to our food banks, and the other 70% is for those who paid a share of the tomatoes and to the volunteers. Took roughly 200 hours of labour from start to finish, but was oh so worth it. It’s rather thick because of the roasting versus simmering as the method of condensing, and it’s so fresh and everything is local.
Paid $1/lb for the Romas in eastern Ontario – could’ve paid around $0.44/lb from the grocery store, but I would rather give the farmer fair market value as cash right on the side of his field instead.
by tavvyjay
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Somebody is going to eat a lot of spaghetti 🍝
Admirable!
Hell yeah.
Do you have a freezer dedicated to sauce?
I don’t have anywhere near this amount of tomatoes, but I still wish I had 17 volunteers to help canning!
Are these shelf stable? The bag method?
Did you discard the skins?
Shoot I jarred 5 quarts of Toms and that was a daunting task in its own.
$5 plus an hour of work per liter of sauce.
Eh, you could do worse 😉
How do you vacuum seal the bags without the vacuum squeezing out the sauce?
Next up, meatballs? You should have a rolling party 😋😂
No salsa? Opportunity missed!
Thank you for sharing. This type of work is so admiable!
Awesome! Great job!
What a fine project! Well done!
WOW, AMAZING ❤️❤️❤️
Sounds like not only do good things grow in Ontario, they also get turned into great meals for those who need it! Great work.
Thanks for not being an asshole!
Great job, very impressive.
.44/lb for grocery store tomatoes seems very low, by American standards at least. I’m a small time grower in IL, and that is well below even auction prices in late summer. You have some very reasonable prices. It’s nice of you to help the farmer.
A truly Canadian mix of metric and imperial. Toms by the pound. Sauce by the Litre. It’s the way.
That is a very cool concept that provides a lot of wins along the way from the social aspect, to the charitable, through to getting good quality affordable food to those involved.
I sometimes do big batches for my family we have a few monster pots and I have considered doing much larger batches as part of a group of friends to make it more sociable so this is some good motivation thank you!
That’s awesome, I guarantee the famers market tomatoes will have a lot more flavor than those from the store. It’s actually sounds like a fun community event