Cooking Tomato Sauce With My Dead Yia Yia

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Published: 07 Oct 2022 › Updated: 07 Oct 2022 Cooking Tomato Sauce With My Dead Yia Yia

Cooking Tomato Sauce With My Dead Yia Yia

My Grandmother Died February Of 1995

Normally, being dead makes it challenge for someone to cook, but, you know, Where there's a will, there's a way!

Above: Some tomato sauce, I made this afternoon.

Above: 5 of the 14 varieties Tomato I planted this season
Below: Garlic and fresh picked Oregano

Above: Beginning to chop the Oregano from my garden
Below: Finely Diced

As a little boy, I learned to cook, at my mother's and grandmother's side, in the kitchen. In our family, my grandfather had a garden, and cooked too. It was just done. You cooked. You cleaned.

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One of the first things I learned to actually cook, was a pasta sauce. And one of my Yia Yia's lessons was, "you always added LOVE, into the sauce." "And how did we do that?" I asked her.

Well, she added some into her sauce, so she told me, "When we are done cooking and eating, we'll simply save some of this sauce, and add it to the next sauce! That way, some of my love will always be added to your sauce, and you love will be added to the next one, and the next...!"

Tomatos, Garlic, Oregano, Basil, are a staple. I add onion, carrot, some ground up meat (chicken, pork, beef, turkey) sometimes, add peppers from the garden, sometimes some leftover squash, or other veggies, too, it all goes in, and I would imagine, over the 45 plus years I've been cooking sauces, no two are alike.

family

Above: That's my Yia Yia, left, me center, and my mom, right

Every single time I make tomato sauce, pasta sauce, of any flavor, I always start with some leftover. That's going on decades now... of adding a little bit of the last sauce, into the next. Three decades later... a little bit of love.

do you have a recipe from family, or generations gone by? something you love? Let me know, below

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