STEP ONE: Prepare your canning equipment and ingredients. To make tomato sauce, you’ll need: tomatoes, bottled lemon juice and salt. If you are using heirloom tomatoes, be sure to include more red ...

Like many Staten Islanders, Giovanni Barricella’s late summer tradition is to process tomatoes into sauce. This year, his garden yielded bushels of plums, beefsteaks and different breeds of heirlooms.

Instead of putting the tomatoes into the pan whole or painstakingly deseeding each one, he employs a simple trick: cut the ...

Thirty-five tomato plants. Yep, that’s what’s in my little urban garden. Ten different varieties of heirloom tomatoes, and I’m bound not to let a single juicy orb go to waste. All was good during June ...

Tomato sauce is a staple in Italian cooking and other cuisines. Many families have special recipes for their own tomato sauces. Such sauces are served during leisurely Sunday afternoon meals featuring ...