when are you sowing your garden this year?

[rbeau30]

That is what I do Brian before I can them for sauce.

I freeze them whole,
When it is time to make sauce, thaw them.
Run them through my peeler/seeder twice.
Simmer the juice down by half.

That should be a good start to your soup. It sure does smell and taste great with homemade maters!

[Brian]

That is what I do Brian before I can them for sauce.

I freeze them whole,
When it is time to make sauce, thaw them.
Run them through my peeler/seeder twice.
Simmer the juice down by half.

That should be a good start to your soup. It sure does smell and taste great with homemade maters!

What does a tomato peeler / seeder look like? Have a link? Is it the same thing as the kitchenaid attachment I use to turn apples into applesauce?

I asked good ol' mom today as well how she froze tomatoes. She said she's done both - frozen them with the skin on, removing it when they were thawed, or removed them in advance and frozen the insides only. Then she gave me how she'd always always go to the trouble to mix up the tomatoes with other stuff (onions, whatever) in almost all cases so that she had a good base to start with. Moms are cool. Glad mine's still around to offer advice on things I took for granted back when I was younger.