Monday, August 16, 2010

toscana {5}

pommarola

Every summer, we harvest crates and crates of vine-ripened tomatoes picked fresh from the vegetable garden. And we make so much pommarola–canned tomato sauce–to last us a whole year. We actually still have lots leftover from last summer...

You can read more about this labor intensive yearly task (and step-by-step recipe) in this post

In the meantime, Buon Ferragosto!

17 comments:

  1. Nice winter supply!! The flavors live on!!

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  2. When I was a child many Italian families would do this here too...

    Yum! and fond memories for me too.

    x

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  3. Well that photo just takes my breath away!

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  4. Send some here if you can't use it all! My wife grew up on a farm and knows how to can vegetables but we have no where to grow them. The shot shows off the fruit of your labors perfectly.

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  5. Hey, Eleonora, I might make it back to Rome in 2011: save some sauce for me!

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  6. A lovely take on a familiar site in Italy at this time of year. I hope your Ferragosto weekend was as much fun as ours.

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  7. Hora de hacer las conservas...muy buena fotografĂ­a, un abrazo.

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  8. Oh, yum! I am hungry for some pasta now even though it is A.M. The fresh tomatoes must help make the pasta sauce divine.

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  9. That pmmarola looks delicious. It reminds me of when I was a child and my mother would buy cheap crates of tomatoes to make her own sauce. Quite a time consuming process but it was better than the store bought stuff.

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  10. CChuck~ it does indeed, literally on and on and on...
    Robyn~ I love that this small scale tradition has traveled across nations and oceans!
    Roseann~ I'm sure this strikes close to home for you, right? ;)
    Bob~ Thanks, It's a little soft, but I was sooo tired!
    Jeff~ We can make some together!
    Lindy~ Ferragosto was great, glad you enjoyed yours!
    Catarina~ Gracias! Besos.
    Tracy~ They do, it tastes so much better than the store-bought kind!
    Loree~ Definitely. You should keep the family tradition alive!

    Ciao a tutti, thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment!!

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  11. My mouth is watering -- looks SO good!

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  12. Donald~ It is indeed so good, that I wish I could include smells and flavors in this post...

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  13. We did this so many times in the past when many of our old folks were still around. Now the actual old folks are much more lazy than them and without a handy country house for the job...

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  14. VP~ I know what you mean, every year I get a little lazier, and the job feels a little bit harder... ;)

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  15. That looks amazing! Just some bread and sauce for me!

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  16. Mitico Pommarola! A couple of years ago I stayed at the Agricol Rubiano in Tuscany and the old lady in the kitchen cooked us fried eggs, floating in oil and her pommarola for brunch on a cold wet miserable Ferragosto. What a treat!

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  17. Randy~ mmm sopping up the sauce with bread is the best!
    Superali~ That's "Uova al Pomodoro" which is an amazing, simple and delicious peasant dish! I love it too!

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