Comments on: Tomato Paste vs Crushed Tomatoes

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:02:04 +0000

I just found this blog and I must say it is sooo needed. I am 29 years old and don't really know much of anything about homemaking. Yet I have a desire to be a homemaker. I have often wanted someone to teach me these things. My mom worked full time like most of my friends moms did. TY so much for this blessing of a site!

By: tinkerschnitzel

tinkerschnitzel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:28:16 +0000

I use crushed tomatoes when making spaghetti sauce just because it adds another texture, but I do use the paste as well as a thickener. I also use it in my BBQ sauce. Makes me want to go home and make spaghetti for dinner!

By: Lowcountry Bloggers » Tuesday Is Not Monday » Blog Archive

Lowcountry Bloggers » Tuesday Is Not Monday » Blog Archive — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:14:43 +0000

[...] completely ungeeky things interesting too, so I was keen to know, and quite absorbed by the post on Home-EC 101 about the difference between tomato paste and crushed [...]

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:46:47 +0000

I agree with ThatBobbieGirl. I buy tomato paste by the case at Sam's Club, and use it for everything- chili, spaghetti sauce,pizza sauce, shepherds pie…It keeps for a while, stores small, cooks up fast. And it has no corn syrup.

By: ThatBobbieGirl

ThatBobbieGirl — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:29:55 +0000

Do you mean she just added the sauce to the pot of spagetti AND WATER?

I've made recipes that called for adding the pasta to a pot of boiling hot sauce and cooking it right in the sauce. But if you cook it in water, you drain it, unless you want it all soupy-like. Weird.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:41:03 +0000

that’s interesting about the Taurine will have to remember that one.THANKS

julie
meridian,ms

By: CarolinaDreamz

CarolinaDreamz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:11:31 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention.. someone will need to give me a major amount of tomatoes for me to make my own paste. Maybe next summer, you and I can find a "pick your own?" I've given up growing them, for multiple reasons.. I, already, buy a lot of tomatoes.. and I've been trying to eat them all fresh, lately.

I need to preserve more.

By: CarolinaDreamz

CarolinaDreamz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:08:49 +0000

My new spaghetti sauce recipe, to try, this week, calls for all three, sauce, paste, crushed tomatoes. Your timing is wonderful. Thanks for being so creative with your information. I <3 you. (That wasn't a secret, though, eh? ::giggle::)

By: CarolinaDreamz

CarolinaDreamz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:07:24 +0000

I did not know to read labels for citric acid. This, very well, may be why I'm having so many problems, of the head-ache type, with food.

I feel like a Taurine defiicient fool, but 1000 mg of Taurine will stop, reverse, and prevent my MSG reactions. Its worth telling everyone!

~Heidi

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:58:43 +0000

I always thought tomato paste was what you used to food together? (sorry couldn't resist).

Anyway I feel special that Heather took my comment and turned it into a whole post, and now I need to go home and find my sauce recipe and figure out why it uses tomato paste and not crushed tomatoes. Especially since it's *almost* cool enough in Houston to cook again. Yay cold front!

On another note, the SIL also did NOT drain her spaghetti – I'd never seen that before, anyone else do that?