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How do you get the skin off tomatoes to make a spaghetti sauce? I have gotten a bumper crop of tomatoes and made some awesome spaghetti sauce. With my first pot of sauce, I made the mistake of not skinning the tomatoes first.

Today we had snow and ice to usher in Advent,but something special had happened !

Chinese tomatoes butt into Italian market ROME, July 5 (UPI) -- The farm organization Coldiretti in Rome warns the country must take precautions to protect itself from Chinese tomato products posing as Italian. Coldiretti said that after the recent Chinese food scars in the United States, a "flood" of Chinese paste, preserves and canned tomatoes posed "a particularly dangerous situation." The organization said it has become urgent that safety checks be boosted since the European Union recently turned down compulsory labeling for food products, "raising the real possibility that imported products are passed off as made in Italy." ANSA, the...

Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have identified why it is good for us to consume large quantities of tomatoes - and say that the best way to eat them is cooked up with some olive oil and cheese. Scientists have long believed that the carotenoids found in fruits and vegetables have a cancer preventive effect. In particular, studies have found that as the consumption of tomato products increases, risk of certain types of cancer decreases - even more so than when a variety of vegetables are eaten. Over the years, studies have found that the risk of up...

Ordering a sandwich for lunch today? How about some lettuce and a slice of cardboard with that? Cardboard. That's how customers describe the taste of winter tomatoes to produce-man Joe Procacci. Looking to improve off-season flavor, Mr. Procacci developed a tomato called the UglyRipe. It's exactly what its name implies. Scarred by crevices, it's not much to look at, but its growers advertise it as "exceptional" in taste. Customers apparently agree. Procacci initially saw sales of his Florida-grown tomatoes triple - until the Florida Tomato Committee put the kibosh on the UglyRipe last year because it doesn't meet the committee's...