Easy Cheater’s Tomato Sauce for Procrastinators

If my grandmother had an immersion blender, would she peel and deseed tomatoes?

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During the past five years, I’ve reinvented preserving tomatoes.

This method has developed from two concepts. First, when your tomatoes are ripe, you might not have enough to bother with the process of canning. And second, you might not feel like canning when your tomatoes do.

When I make this, I feel like I am cheating the tomato canning gods. I don’t know if I have bastardized the whole process or invented a better way to make tomato sauce in the 21st century?

Seasonal Eating Meets Real-Life

I eat seasonal vegetables most of the time. It helps to work on a farm, and I’m lucky to live in a place where I can get fresh produce year-round. But eating seasonally also means respecting the traditions of preservation. Here is the convergence that brought me to this recipe.

I like canned tomatoes.

I don’t mind buying canned tomatoes in the winter.

Cooked tomatoes boost up your cooking with an umami flavor that enables your taste buds.