How to make Italian tomato salsa! | Pasta Grannies

[@tbirdparis]

Growing up we did this every single summer with my family. That bottled final product is liquid gold, better than anything you'll ever find in a supermarket :)

[@dhurley8522]

Amen 🇮🇹🙏🏻

[@pastagrannies]

that's amazing!

[@saratf]

Sometimes I wish this could be my life. A big kitchen, chickens, and a garden.

[@donschneider7953]

...and lots of smiling faces around the table on a regular basis...meaningful community and a simple life...

[@Londonechoes]

Same!

[@pattyh1862]

Can I be your neighbor? Would love this as well

[@rosannarm]

yep a lot less or none of the normal crap and pettiness most of us experience in the rat race

[@rosannarm]

me too..... me too.

[@hrdottori]

These videos got me into making and cooking my own pasta and making my own sauces... Been a few years developing this skill and I'm soooo beneath these grannies. Hope you reach your 1st Million soon.... These grannies deserve respect!

[@pastagrannies]

That's amazing! and we should be getting there by the end of the month! exciting!

[@scottamori3188]

Simply exquisite. Our chickens love the tailings when we process tomatoes, too. These ladies have this down to a science. Thank you for another great episode.

[@pastagrannies]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Scott! best wishes, Vicky

[@debraboyea7776]

These 2 ladies are wonderful. And they get along so well! Love how they pick everything so fresh and turn it into something so delicious!

[@pastagrannies]

Yes, that's true!

[@dhurley8522]

Here in the States, the Italian’s use Mason Jars for their homemade tomato sauce. August and September is tomato sauce making season. It was a yearly tradition for my parents and relatives, who would all gather together in each other’s backyards and make sauce. They all hailed from Sturno, and the Campania region of Italy..I’m ashamed to say I always thought it was such drudgery. Getting sauce all over me, fighting off the bees. I was always in charge of scooping the skins back into the strainer to squeeze the last bits of sauce.Now, that my relatives and parents have all passed on, I long for those days in August and September of making sauce. I miss them all. I’m very proud of my Italian heritage. I carry them in my heart ♥️🇮🇹🙏🏻

[@rosannarm]

I totally relate and have regrets: when we are young we are like ugh i don't want to do this (making sausages to dry, wine, tomato sauce, etc) now I'm 56 and my parents and grandparents from Italy are all gone and I regret refusing to write my dad's story (when he would nag me), refusing to hang out and write down recipes and actually want to do and watch and be part of it. We all wanted to be 'young' and free and free from the old ways. Now we would give ANYTHING to live it all over and be the OLD WAYS. In the times of progressivism and all the crazy changes in the world, so many look back and see the beauty and want the old times/ways. Me for one.

[@pastagrannies]

they're still good memories 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky

[@chris-vecchio]

Their cutting skills are on another level! Reminds me of my grandmother preparing sauce when I was young. ❤ I LOVE their response when he asks them if it's a lunch or afternoon snack! "Che pranzo.." 😄 Man this video made me so happy!!!

[@sianwarwick633]

Collazione ! A snack

[@Connex-C]

its so incredible to see these women all the time working and cooking with so much passion and love 🙏

[@joannemazza1657]

Thanks to Rosa and Teresa for these memories doing tomatoe sauce and passata with my parents long, long time ago. Sadly both gone, those were our fall summer celebrations, conserving good food for winter and rest of the year. Grazie per i ricordi. Ciao🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😋😋😋😋😋 P.S.: you are blessed Vicky, first to meet these wonderful ladies, nonnas, Italia's true treasures, second to taste these extraordinary dishes, piatti favolosi.

[@pastagrannies]

Thank you for the lovely comment x

[@rosannarm]

@@pastagrannies I want to take it one step further. Vicki is the BLESSING: To find and share these ladies, these traditions and culture and to preserve and create legacies for these ladies and their families. They probably think nothing of a bigger picture and how they can span the world and affect so many. Vicki is a treasure! and a treasure to the Italian diaspora, those of us with our origins in the Boot! ❤

[@tl4214]

This is wonderful! Love how they share both joy and tasks with laughter! Bella Donne!!

[@aris1956]

Obviously with that quality of tomatoes a special sauce comes out !

[@owilliams7449]

The idea of using a sheet to protect the bottles is very clever. Not to mention, the machine that Rosa's husband invented. Bravo!

[@dhurley8522]

Well, every Italian has one. It’s been around for decades. 😊

[@fiammettacolonna3226]

Everybody uses sheet or old newspapers to protect bottles. That's tradition in Italy!

[@rosannarm]

@@fiammettacolonna3226 or old clothes and blankets!

[@jonesbub1]

Rosa and Terese surely do have an inviting cantina! The dried herbs, garlic and prosciutto! Oh, MY! And that lovely salsa…I could smell it right in my living room! You were so lucky, Vicky, to get a taste of that luscious breakfast…I’m just a little jelly!!! TFS, Sharon 🤗♥️🍝

[@Londonechoes]

Love this! Their cutting skills are amazing

[@pastagrannies]

they are yes!

[@genesiabeharry111]

So delicious. I Love Tomatoes. These are just Gorgeous.

[@christianeaspacher9043]

Veri tesori! 💚 Buonissimo!

[@plankface]

What a great pair ❤️🧡❤️🧡

[@janetdiesnis456]

When you said that you wanted a million subscribers I looked at the number and was amazed at how many you have! Totally deserved. It is my favourite channel. I look forward to Friday every week. I don't know how long I have been watching but it is quite some time! When is the next book available?

[@pastagrannies]

Thank you Janet for the lovely comment. We should get there by the end of the month! And I'm in the process of writing the third book :)

[@EversonTranslations]

I love the grannies aa much as I love their pasta recipes. Forza Italia!

[@nerinat8371]

My Italian mother is 93 and we still every year make tomato sauce... l love it

[@gricelareyes]

Maravilloso ❤

[@lauracolby6038]

Loved these two beautiful ladies making salsa and passata and eggs & fry peppers and dip them in egg yolk and i just love this channel and you will make one million subs as it is so RICHLY deserved. The best channel on YT. Cheers 🥂

[@pastagrannies]

Thank you so much Laura!

[@AB-du2wf]

You are precious! Thanks for preserving 😂 Italian traditional recipes ❤

[@NalanErgur-tg7st]

Like my mother always does. Lovely ❤

[@gizmo7877]

Wow, just today a friend let me pick all the tomatoes I wanted so I’m making passata with them. It was great to see these ladies doing the same thing. Great timing for me to pick up some tips. Think I picked about 12 -15 lbs and waiting for the rest to ripen. I’ll be knee deep in tomatoes for a few days. But I just love making sauce, first time just making passata. I’ll freeze the containers for future sauces. Of course I’ll share with some friends too. My blender came in very handy breaking down the tomatoes, did a great job. Nothing like healthy sweet tomatoes home grown!!

[@rosannarm]

hi. that's great. just a tip.the food mill separates out the seeds and skins as opposed to the blender and it gives it a mellower taste.

[@gizmo7877]

@@rosannarm my food mill doesn’t work very well. The handle doesn’t turn smoothly and it’s only been used two times. I go back and forth to clean out the hard to break down pieces so I gave up. The blender makes a smoother sauce but I add some chunks too because I love them. For smaller amounts I use the small Ninja blender. It’s all good.

[@juttadestiny6810]

My late mum in law made the tomato sauce every year! ❤️❤️❤️🇦🇺

[@donaldist7321]

for anyone who hasn't got a bumper crop of tomatoes: Mutti's tomatoes are out of this world.

[@sheteg1]

Mutti is my go to when I run out of my canned sauce I make. Reasonable price at Costco.

[@donaldist7321]

@@sheteg1 where do you live? Never seen it on the East Coast!

[@karltraunmuller7048]

I can so relate to that! I am self-sufficient on tomato passata all year round, and San Marzanos are a staple for me 🍅

[@mariapepper6175]

Oh! That wonderfully simple breakfast!! Vicky, I love your tastings!! I know you are throughly enjoying your time with these Pasta Grannies! (And, I love your shirt)!! Thank you!! 🙏❤😘🇺🇸

[@pastagrannies]

Thank you Maria! x

[@71lizgoeshardt]

God, that breakfast looks amazing.

[@sianwarwick633]

Really beautiful, lovely fresh tomatoes, a small fire for cooking, and those lively crunchy fried peppers. And the techniclogico is tops. Great timing fir end od seadon tomatoes

[@kariloum1133]

Thanks for this video and congratulations for the million.😉

[@art_see_shan1849]

Now this was a joy to watch & enjoy ❤

[@aris1956]

6:42 And as we see here, not everyone in Italy has breakfast with Cornetto and Cappuccino. 😉

[@mjfromla]

I know - that looks like the best breakfast!

[@rosannarm]

@@mjfromla i can just imagine the smell and the way my stomach would be growling. on a beautiful hot summer morning in Italy after having done a ton of work already! Heaven on a plate and in your nose!

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

We usually make 11 bushels of tomatoes every year. Such delicious tomatoes 🍅. Best for our Canadian winter when you’re wanting some delicious pasta , lasagna. Etc. ❤

[@pastagrannies]

That's great! keep it up x

[@janetschmitt6760]

The word quitessential comes to mind watching the ladies in their lovely environment. Could egg and toast look anymore delicious?

[@zizzie4081]

I had those peperoni in Matera last year. They don’t look like much, but boy are they good!

[@pastagrannies]

Delicious!

[@christineb8148]

I remember hand cranking the tomato mill when I was a child to separate the seeds and skins from the pulp, I thought it was so cool for some reason :-) I imagine the smell in that cantina was heavenly.

[@pastagrannies]

hi Christine, you were right, it's very cool - and satisfactory - to make this kind of magic! best wishes, Vicky

[@Oaklandrosie]

Amazing and absolutely mesmerizing. Looks like hard work made enjoyable with a friend. And the results of the effort look simply delicious. Just told my husband to subscribe…one more towards that goal of a million!

[@pastagrannies]

thank you! 💕

[@nancyanderson6404]

I am already a subscriber but I wish I could subscribe twice you are so close. I have loved you so much over the years. I can my tomatoes also. I loved watching how they did it over a fire. I loved watching every part of this video. I wish I was a member of that group. Now I'll go in and Fry myself an egg 💕💕💕

[@pastagrannies]

hi Nancy, thank you for being a long time fan! I hope your fried egg had a frilly edge like Rosa's! 😁🌺 best wishes, Vicky

[@angelines29]

Finally. I was waiting for this ❤

[@axion8788]

Passata of the gods!

[@pastagrannies]

Indeed!

[@piripiro]

I just finished today's batch, and first thing I see on KZbin is more people making conserva 😂

[@angellover02171]

What's the difference?

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

@@angellover02171fresh homemade taste!

[@alk3078]

Maybe you should look up what conserva means.​@@angellover02171

[@piripiro]

@@angellover02171 salsa (the one in the video) is cooked. Passata, or conserva, is bottled without cooking down the tomatoes. You just mill the tomatoes and bottle the juices which then get sanitized (by boiling the bottles, like in the video). Compared to salsa, conserva/passata keeps a more raw tomato flavor, and a less dense consistency

[@angellover02171]

@@piripiro thank you

[@pinucciadattoli8493]

Un video eccezionale, brave queste donne di Terranova di Pollino sanno fare di tutto. I peperoni cruschi con le uova sono molto buoni.brave!

[@markharrisllb]

What’s this? Youngsters on Pasta Grannies? I'm so envious of Rosa's lifestyle. I was taught to make Italian salsa by my first and greatest mentor as a chef, a man from Lago di Como. He taught me to lightly season it with very little salt, bay leaves and oregano and to emulsify it with butter at the end. We also put carrots, celery and onions in and some idiot (let’s call him Mark Harris) had to pass it through a Mouli by hand. However, 40 litres would only last a few days, even though we weren’t an 'Italian restaurant' it was the basis of so many sauces. See you next week…

[@pastagrannies]

hi Mark, ah, the butter is showing its northern roots - your conserva sounds excellent! 🍅🙂 best wishes, Vicky

[@markharrisllb]

@@pastagrannies I thought it was very northern, I also think with it being a restaurant sauce it was purposely a bit richer.

[@myhomeanddreamgarden]

1 million subscribers. I am very far behind with my subscribers. You will get them very soon. 🌞

[@ErnieCG]

Nice food

[@Susan.I]

I would love to eat her eggs! She cooks them just the way I love mine!!🥰

[@sevenoctobers7471]

When your wife makes salsa so good that you invent a machine to make the process quicker.

[@margaritabetancourt1167]

❤❤❤

[@kiltlvr]

This is my dream - to grow plump meaty tomatoes to then make passata.

[@pastagrannies]

I hope next season is the one you make it happen 🙂🍅🍅 best wishes, Vicky

[@Jbp658]

After seeing a few of the videos about making salsa, I realized when growing up, my midwestern, US, non Italian mother did pretty much the same thing. I didn’t appreciate it at the time unfortunately.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

I've never seen the tomatoes cooked before grinding before.

[@sckga]

Is it passata, conserva, salsa, sugo or sauce??

[@sckga]

@@marymartin-q2y Thanks! I recently put up my seasonal passata and pelati. Also several jars of salsa, the Mexican kind!

[@rosannarm]

Salsa is the Italian word for sauce. It is conserva/passata when not seasoned and not ready to eat. You would use it to make a sugo or ragu by starting with oil, onion or garlic and then the jars of sauce and whatever else plus basil or parsley..... meats if you are using them. Cooking for a couple or more hours. Sauce is not applicable as it isn't the Italian word like the other 4. Sauce would be salsa, sugo is a more richer concoction. None of these words are meaning the Mexican salsa btw.

[@josiemorgan5401]

💐🙏

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Are those hot peppers or sweet?

[@pastagrannies]

Sweet, they're eaten like candy! best wishes, Vicky

[@HenrikWind]

I thought it was called pasata

[@GuidoBatt]

It is, in the North.

[@HenrikWind]

@@GuidoBatt thank you for teaching me. I did not know pasata and salsa was the same in Italy.

[@annamariamaioli4728]

Passata, due s

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

Salsa is Mexican. This is sugo!!😂

[@marymartin-q2y]

Italian cooking is not the homogenised thing you see on tv or cooking show, each town has their own terms, ways ect...did you know marinara sauce is only known as such in Naples, and it has nothing to do with fish, it has to do with the profession of the husbads of the people who cook the sauce.

[@joegill3417]

Someone please buy these ladies a table to cut their tomatoes on at the beginning, and a bar on a swivel to place that huge pot on the fire. They'll need a chiropractor soon.

[@GuidoBatt]

Handling a cauldron in the fireplace, frying stuff in hot oil, jumpig on a chair to retrieve things from the ceiling... Risky business! Watch for your femurs, ladies!

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

These women are professional 😂

[@GuidoBatt]

@@HopeLaFleur1975 Workplace Safety inspectors disagree...

[@alk3078]

How's life in the rocking chair watching life go by?

[@rosannarm]

@@GuidoBatt There are no workplace safety inspectors in these parts .. lol.. these women are brick ... well you know the rest. No one compares with the amount of work they did in their lives and do... especially the older ones.. working fields, turning soils by hand, planting, harvesting, making, carrying things on their heads, bringing water, etc. Remember many didn't have running water or bathrooms in house and we aren't talking THAT long ago. My 75 year old uncle remembers it all (God I wish I talked more about old times with my beloved late Dad and Nonni). They probably are equivalent to mack trucks.. the strength and energy and endurance. Having kids (not in hospitals), helping families survive in lean times....these provincial Grannies have gone through more than we can imagine. I know from some of the stories from my Nonna and visiting the ancestral village and the people and my Dad and uncles and aunts recollections.

[@GuidoBatt]

@@rosannarm Just for the record, I was kidding. Much respect for our nonnas (mine sadly passed away before I could remember her)

[@Bruniebear]

They need to feed that poor cat!

[@angelines29]

How would you make this sauce without the machine made by the husband?

[@pastagrannies]

there are various brands in Italy which make a machine specifically for the task of making passata or salsa. It is called 'passapomodoro macchina' - Rigamonti is one example which might be imported to your country. best wishes, Vicky

[@swissfoodie3542]

While this simple recipe looks great, I would definitely add fried garlic, onion and chili with it. And also fresh basil.

[@ginger942]

😂😂😂

[@GuidoBatt]

@@swissfoodie3542 That's because it's not a condiment yet, just a basic ingredient to make one. I a few jars they added a few leaves of basil, though.