Cooking Tomato Sauce With My Dead Yia Yia

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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.

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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.


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Thats a great tradition! we have a few old recipe cards that were handwritten by family that we still cook with. The favorite is probably icebox bread and butter pickles from my wifes grandma.

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Oh, those recipe cards!
My yia yia, and my wife's grandmother! we have a couple recipes, one, a Greek New Year's Day bread, missing amounts of ingredients. One, similar, "add enough flour..." vague was the way that generation wrote them!

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I read an interview with Edna Staebler author of Food that Schmecks which was a cookbook of Mennonite recipes from southwestern Ontario. She said that first she had to get the ladies to even trust her enough to be present when they were cooking and then she had to translate things like: pinch, dab, handful, dollop into something measurable.

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oh, Greg 💗 This actually brought tears to my eyes. How beautiful. I have never ever heard of doing this... and I absolutely adore the idea. Decades later and you still get to imbue your sauce with the love of your Grandma and/or yourself. So so special ❣️ I think this is something that everyone should do. Best family tradition ever!!! Your veg haul looks delish as usual... and the pic? that's a gorgeous photo... what a cute young lad in the middle of two wonderful women - you can almost feel the love...

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