I LOVE YOUR NONA. She’s so precious. I lost my granny over 30 years ago. Watching her makes me cry. Treasure her and everything she touches. Thank you for sharing her recipes and techniques. God Bless
I'll be doing this for 2021. I am a disabled veteran, but I am slowly figuring things out and expanding my garden more and more. We just bought an old 5 acre 1880 farmhouse and barn. Getting a couple pigs and going bigger with the garden. Hitting the store less and less.
OMG I absolutely LOVE this woman. Please keep her healthy and alive for as long as possible and thank you for sharing her with the world. God bless you and you're entire family. ❤❤❤
What a sweet lady! I don't believe many people would put that much effort and love into her canning. A lost art. I'm happy to see she is keeping it alive. Thank you Nona.
Man not only in general I love the older folks they know soooooo much. I've Always listen and watch them. Working in home care is a plus. Everyone has a secret and a story.
What a great way to keep the old recipes alive when Grandma is long gone. This is a beautiful tribute of your love for her. Please keep recording all you can for you, your family, and all of us. Thank you Grandma for your cooking lessons.
I love her enthusiasm and love of detail. I’m retired and cooking is my release and hobby. I recently got into canning last year. I’ll never go hungry as I love to cook. My brother is handicapped and I take care of him since his wife passed. We are Italian/Greek. And my mom taught me a lot rest her sole. And now I’m learning so much more again on Italian traditions and meals. This was my first time watching your channel. And I loved it. Thank you very much!
True. My husband's grandma, may she rest in peace, was teaching me how to make pignolis and I asked her if I could do something a slightly different way. She replied "well you could, but it will be wrong".
Not really- I wash the tomaties, halve them and remove that green part. Put in a deep dish, along with Lots of basil, and lots of garlic cloves, and bake them on low heat for 6 hours. Leave to cool down covered with aluminium foil. ( Next day) I liquidize the lot and preserve.
She is a true expression of love, and love she has for her family through all of her hard work to make such fantastic sauce. She is a true Italian mama.
While preparing to can some beans and tomato I began missing the summers I spent as a child with my grandma. She'd can for her 5 children (and others) to feed us grandchildren. Reminiscing about breaking beans, chopping cabbage, peeling&coring apples. Grandma with her huge pressure canners and water bathers. When stumbling across your video I watched with so much joy. My grandma was really small like yours. She also had a heavy country accent from the southern U.S... I hope the youth of today can one day reminisce about their grandma, as I have this day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your lovely grandmother with the world... I just wanna hug her...She is a treasure for certain! 🤗
Hello Nonna! My father and I followed your instructions and my puree turned out beautiful! You are a wonderful teacher! I will be doing this forever from now on. I love your tucking the jars into bed method!😊 A hundred million thank you's! Peace and the Lord's blessing upon you! ❤
Oh Gina, I truly enjoy watching your videos. I just found your channel today. I have been watching your videos, and it feels like my mother or grandmother are still here teaching me how to cook. They both passed when I was young. Thank you for sharing yourself with us, you will never understand how much it means to your viewers. Love, from Corpus Christi, Texas.
I tried your tomato canning technique in this video about 1.5 years ago. I just started using my canned sauce now. It is so very delicious! It tastes much better than the stuff I buy in the grocery store. Thanks!!!
If you’re gonna take saucing tips or ANY kind of cooking tips, you can never go wrong listening to an Italian grandmother! Nothing but good comes out of their kitchens I’ve found. Thank you so much for your time and effort to show us this! I have been looking for a great sauce recipe and this looks to be amazing! It will never match yours exactly I’m sure, but I bet it’ll be close.
went looking for sauce and found a beautiful person, the love for family comes through so loud and clear, thank you for this recipe, thank you for being such an inspiration!
I don't understand how anyone could give her a thumbs down for any video she makes. She is so sweet and amazing. The things Gina is teaching us are irreplaceable.
I saw this video in 2018 and I made the tomatoes sauce that year exactly as shown here. I did this last year as well and had amazing tomatoe sauce for the entire year. Today, I am making it again and just came by to refresh the lesson. Haha!! Thank You and all the very best!
@@shanbaloch3312 I keep them in a room below the basement (like a second basement lol), where it is always cool (18C). They have lasted me over 14 months because when I made some last fall, I still had some from the year before and I finished those this past December.
@@jujubee7351 Make sure the jars are 100% clean and dry. You can maybe warm them up in the oven before putting the tomatoes sauce in them. I do not boil jars though. Boil tomatoes lol Good luck! Just do everything like in the video and it comes out awesome!
@@shanbaloch3312 if properly boiled (the jars, 15 minutes after boiling stars) over a 1 year 👌 - La nonna here, didn't do it, it's another technique for the 'seal up' I usually see in here in Italy 🇮🇹, guess there are different ways to do it
Oh my, 2.7 million views and you deserve every one of them! I've been watching a few hours worth of videos about canning tomatoes today and I'm so glad I found yours. I'll be doing exactly what you did today. I have about 15 lbs. of tomatoes to process from my garden today and another 15 lbs. to process tomorrow. I just don't have the stamina like you to do it all at once. You are a beautiful sole. God bless you and may God still bless America.
Oh, Grandma Gina, you warm my heart and bring tears to my eyes! Thank you for sharing your knowledge through your wonderful cooking lessons. Thank you for showing us that a small prayer before a huge task is always as important as all the other ingredients. And, thank you for sharing your gratitude! Buon-a-petitti!
A lot of people who have not had the pleasure to know an Italian grandmother, have not experienced making these amazing foods which are very labor intensive and become such a memorable family event every year. These days, many moms and grandmothers find themselves making them alone, as they age, so they stop. Whether it’s snapping beans, or canning goods, it’s a good time to bond with your family. I wish I had an Italian grandmother that I could spend a day peeling tomatoes with. Don’t let this become a lost art; gather the family and put the electronics down and create your own rich family memories. Thanks, Gina. You warm my heart. ❤️
J Coburn My favorite was her first Bread & Pizza dough video, when she picked up that heavy pan with all that dough and carried it to her little couch in the living room then covered it with 3 more heavy blankets❣️❣️❣️That’s a Real Italian Super Mom‼️❤️🥰
It’s beautiful to watch, our family does it the same way ,it’s a real tradition we’ve bee doing it for 35 years... before that my wife use to do it with her mother since she was a little girl... Now we do it with 4 families We have 6 burners and 3 machines,lots of work but great Joy!!!
I’ve never been interested in any cooking shows ever, but yours are an instant addiction Grandma Gina, I shared your video with my boss and she’s subbed too! So grateful to YOU for your heartfelt passion, hard work, and overflowing love for all! Continued blessings to your beautiful, supportive family too, a precious and priceless gift indeed💓
I watch this video every time I make sauce. My family loves this recipe and Mrs. Gina. Thank you for teaching us how to do this and helping us to start our own family traditions.
I rewatch these every year before I make the sauce and the canned tomatoes. I love the clear simple instructions and your enthusiasm and joy fills me with energy. Thank you so much Gina and family.
I started making food from scratch and jars ...and cheese from scratch and kefir and anything is possible for healthy reason and now I'm 53 and my grandmother and my mother are not here anymore can't ask them how it should be done...soo when I found grandma Gina's videos just warm up my heart...thanks for making those videos please don't stop I'm learning soo much from you.
In these quarantine times this video actually made my lonely easter, thank you so very much. I actually dont feel even half as lonely now and for that I am so grateful.
Hello Grandma. Im also a Grandma. Ha Ha! Looks like you have a very good team working with you! I just wanted to say thank you to you and your lovely family for giving us this opportunity to make lovely home made provisions for our kitchen. I love it! And I love you and your family too!!
Her sealing method is actually sound science. By taking the hot jarred sauce and inverting and cooling slowly, she is allowing the head space in the jar to cool away from the seal creating vacuum pressure pulling the flat lid into place. Luckily tomato sauce needs less that 5# of pressure to seal.
Except the water bath is better for sealing the lid and killing bacteria. I imagine hers isn't meant for long term storage though; probably doesn't last that long.
This brought so much joy to an otherwise gloomy day. I was midway through before I even realized I had been grinning the entire time as I felt like I was watching a beloved nonna pass down her recipes. I was comforted (?) in its authenticity and can sense that she genuinely cooks from a place of love and passion. Like it should be...
In 1983 I was in the USAF and I was sent to Sardinia. I was just a stupid young kid. I met a guy named Felicio who invited me to his house for dinner with his entire family. They taught me how to make sauce exactly the same Gina does. I have now watched this video 6 times. Gratzie!
Wow! Reminds me of when I lived in Rome New York with the large Italian population. I loved them, their food, and their culture. A complete blessing when they came to America. Thank you so much for your cooking and showing the love you put in your food!
I was crying the whole time watching, so happy when I used to make la salsa with my Nonna Santina every September. Thank you so much Nonna Gina, you are amazing!
I remember tomato harvest in Italy. I was 10 living in Carovigno. All the old ladies around the city had their tables out making salsa. The town smelled like tomato and it was so wonderful. It was a massive effort. I miss it so much!
What a wonderful lady and a great teacher. Thank you very much. You are a sweetheart and I can only imagine how much love goes into your food. Bless you.
Thank You Nona Gina! My Nona was from Gravina Italy. She went to Heaven in 1999. She would have been 118 years old now. You speak just like her. I am so lucky that I found you here on the internet. You bring her back to me each time I hear you speak. God Bless You Nona Gina . Victoria
What an amazing Lady. I just hope the next batch of Nonna's are as wonderful. My Grandmother was Scottish and just the same, kind, loving, generous and an amazing cook. Thank you.
I grew up in Italy and we used to do the same every year in August! The only difference that after the machine we didn't used to cook/boil in the pot but directly put the tomato sauce inside washed up beer bottles, cap them and placed in a cut barrel filled with water. Boiled the water in the barrel and then waited to cool off. All good and great Natural Tomato sauce for two years!
Same here ! She popped up in mind yesterday when I was shopping to stock up and I had an aha moment at the sight of roma tomatoes... i just wish marzanos were available.
How in the world can people thumbs down this video? Some of these comments are just rude! She was so cute doing the sign of the cross before starting the milling machine! You’re just so sweet!
After watching this video last year, I planted about 20 Roma tomato plants. I have been throwing them in the freezer once they're ripe. I now have about 30 pounds to make sauce with tomorrow! I can't wait to do it your way. I bought a processor that's just plastic but should get the job done. Blessings to you Nana Gina! I use your videos for all the Italian food at my house.
God Bless you grandma Gina. It is a lot of work to jar tomatoes but you do it with such joy. Your family is blessed to have you. Thank you for sharing ❤ 😊
How can ANYONE give this a thumbs down???!!!! LOVE HER... she makes my heart happy and nostalgic all at once... Missing my mother and Nonna... God bless your family and for sharing your secrets! 😄😘🥰🙏
Mama you are. Wonderful , thanks for sharing .these. Video is 2 years now and people are still commenting till date and these very moment it's really awesome . Lots of 💜💙💙🖤💚💚💚
Simply amazing. Salt, fresh basil and freshly cooked tomato sauce, ready to use in any recipe. Everything is how my mother instructed except she also put the lids in boiling hot water. Why are there thumbs down?
I love this lady ! She has a way that just makes me feel good. I love her recipes, but most of all, I love her positive attitude. I think the world could use a lot more ladies like her
This may be the best cooking video I have ever seen! I definitely need to buy a good tomato grinder as I grow 80 tomato plants each year but Gina's recipe is so simple but still precise. And I now have a good excuse to buy even larger pots :) I'm German but I'm going to tell my wife "Aunt Gina" said I had to do it!
My wife’s family (Sicilian) has been making their own sauce for years. This year my wife followed Ms. Gina’s way of jarring the sauce without having to boil the jars separately. This saved my wife a lot of time. We thank you. Your great!! God Bless!! Oh and I’m buying your book. 🤫🙂👍
Long ago we used the hand operated machine and making 5-6 times much more sauce than in the video. Family, relatives and neighbors-friends all worked together then had a feast and shared the final product. Lot of hard work but these were joyful days.
I swear I could smell those tomatoes cooking! You're an inspiration. I am just learning to do some canning and had no idea the sauce could be canned the way you do it. I understand the boiling sauce helps seal the lids, and I believe the weight of the jar presses the lids down and that's why they are turned upside down. God bless you always! Ave Maria!
What a JOY it is to watch these videos. I grew up in a family that never cooked. In the 70's- 80's, where frozen food was king. Frozen pizza, then delivery came along. These secrets were lost. Thank you, Gramma! My family will not go into their lives without your knowledge. 💗
I LOVE YOUR NONA. She’s so precious. I lost my granny over 30 years ago. Watching her makes me cry. Treasure her and everything she touches. Thank you for sharing her recipes and techniques. God Bless
Notice that this kitchen is in the basement? That's where the real cooking done. The upstairs kitchen is for show; the basement is for work.
This is how we do it . One kitchen in the basement, one on first floor , one outside called summer kitchen .😀
And no washing machine in the kitchen .
No. It has sanitary issue. Damp. Moss loving. No sunlight😢
I'll be doing this for 2021. I am a disabled veteran, but I am slowly figuring things out and expanding my garden more and more. We just bought an old 5 acre 1880 farmhouse and barn. Getting a couple pigs and going bigger with the garden. Hitting the store less and less.
Thank you for your service
Dear Veteran, get several laying hens. You'll never regret it. They'll give you awesome eggs and clean up bugs. Best to you.
KC, Just wanted you say Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Wishing you the very best with your farm and garden.
Make the sauce but don't can this way. Do the proper waterbath way. But the sauce is beautiful!
Awesome keep it going Sir!!
Gina was from the greatest generation of honest, hard working, dedicated people that made the world a better place.
Such a gift!! Thank you Gina and those who brought her video to me... So grateful
This whole basement operation is amazing. I love grandmas like this from any culture. Her whole family is so fortunate to have her with them.
OMG I absolutely LOVE this woman. Please keep her healthy and alive for as long as possible and thank you for sharing her with the world.
God bless you and you're entire family. ❤❤❤
What a sweet lady! I don't believe many people would put that much effort and love into her canning. A lost art. I'm happy to see she is keeping it alive. Thank you Nona.
Man not only in general I love the older folks they know soooooo much. I've Always listen and watch them. Working in home care is a plus. Everyone has a secret and a story.
Protect our Italian grandma at all costs!! She is a national treasure! 😂😂
What a great way to keep the old recipes alive when Grandma is long gone. This is a beautiful tribute of your love for her. Please keep recording all you can for you, your family, and all of us. Thank you Grandma for your cooking lessons.
I love her enthusiasm and love of detail. I’m retired and cooking is my release and hobby. I recently got into canning last year. I’ll never go hungry as I love to cook. My brother is handicapped and I take care of him since his wife passed. We are Italian/Greek. And my mom taught me a lot rest her sole. And now I’m learning so much more again on Italian traditions and meals. This was my first time watching your channel. And I loved it. Thank you very much!
I like European people/men
Maybe we can cook together? 🙏
I love this lady. We need to hold our elders dear to our hearts. Their knowledge is worth more than silver and gold.
When Italian grandmas say “some people make it a different way” they are really saying some people do it wrong. 🤣🇮🇹
True. My husband's grandma, may she rest in peace, was teaching me how to make pignolis and I asked her if I could do something a slightly different way. She replied "well you could, but it will be wrong".
Yes, definitely!
Not really- I wash the tomaties, halve them and remove that green part. Put in a deep dish, along with Lots of basil, and lots of garlic cloves, and bake them on low heat for 6 hours. Leave to cool down covered with aluminium foil. ( Next day) I liquidize the lot and preserve.
Lol
😂😂😂😂 true
She is a true expression of love, and love she has for her family through all of her hard work to make such fantastic sauce. She is a true Italian mama.
Loved when she stopped and said, almost forgot and blesses herself before continuing. 7:17 God bless her and all those watching.
While preparing to can some beans and tomato I began missing the summers I spent as a child with my grandma. She'd can for her 5 children (and others) to feed us grandchildren. Reminiscing about breaking beans, chopping cabbage, peeling&coring apples. Grandma with her huge pressure canners and water bathers. When stumbling across your video I watched with so much joy. My grandma was really small like yours. She also had a heavy country accent from the southern U.S... I hope the youth of today can one day reminisce about their grandma, as I have this day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your lovely grandmother with the world... I just wanna hug her...She is a treasure for certain! 🤗
When I saw her standing on her cooking bench to reach the pot - I knew I was in love. Your family is blessed to have such a treasure.
30 years ago I was 20 and I had an Italian girlfriend, she dumped me, I still miss her grandmother.
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Ahahahaha!!!
Hilarious
I love how you look after your family so amazing
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Please keep her safe in these scary times. We can't lose this precious woman.
Hello Nonna! My father and I followed your instructions and my puree turned out beautiful! You are a wonderful teacher! I will be doing this forever from now on. I love your tucking the jars into bed method!😊 A hundred million thank you's! Peace and the Lord's blessing upon you! ❤
I almost shed a tear when Nona was thanking everyone. :') She's so pure
This woman just stole my heart. This is how to learn to cook. From Grandma, step by step in the kitchen. Beautiful!
Oh Gina, I truly enjoy watching your videos. I just found your channel today. I have been watching your videos, and it feels like my mother or grandmother are still here teaching me how to cook. They both passed when I was young. Thank you for sharing yourself with us, you will never understand how much it means to your viewers. Love, from Corpus Christi, Texas.
I tried your tomato canning technique in this video about 1.5 years ago. I just started using my canned sauce now. It is so very delicious! It tastes much better than the stuff I buy in the grocery store. Thanks!!!
If you’re gonna take saucing tips or ANY kind of cooking tips, you can never go wrong listening to an Italian grandmother! Nothing but good comes out of their kitchens I’ve found. Thank you so much for your time and effort to show us this! I have been looking for a great sauce recipe and this looks to be amazing! It will never match yours exactly I’m sure, but I bet it’ll be close.
I have a lot of respect for this woman...A different generation that worked all their life. Hard work!
I just love her. How could you not? She is just wonderful
I love the way she still has all of her equipment (in impeccable shape too) and gives you a timeline of her progression ,I love tradition
No kidding that generation didn’t mess around they kept everything and they appreciated all of it my grandmother too
went looking for sauce and found a beautiful person, the love for family comes through so loud and clear, thank you for this recipe, thank you for being such an inspiration!
You are smart to video her, you will treasure these forever!
When you have more ovens in your basement you know you’re hard core cooking. Bravo to Italian grandmas!!
😂❤️ She has 2 stoves & a giant stick & a big machine. What a great grandma to work so hard to make homemade tomato sauce for her family. ❤️
I don't understand how anyone could give her a thumbs down for any video she makes. She is so sweet and amazing. The things Gina is teaching us are irreplaceable.
She is the sweetest person on UA-cam! Thank you for teaching us your way.
I saw this video in 2018 and I made the tomatoes sauce that year exactly as shown here. I did this last year as well and had amazing tomatoe sauce for the entire year. Today, I am making it again and just came by to refresh the lesson. Haha!! Thank You and all the very best!
How long we can store the jars??
@@shanbaloch3312 I keep them in a room below the basement (like a second basement lol), where it is always cool (18C). They have lasted me over 14 months because when I made some last fall, I still had some from the year before and I finished those this past December.
I want to try this , so you dont boil the jars in water ? I like this way better
@@jujubee7351 Make sure the jars are 100% clean and dry. You can maybe warm them up in the oven before putting the tomatoes sauce in them. I do not boil jars though. Boil tomatoes lol Good luck! Just do everything like in the video and it comes out awesome!
@@shanbaloch3312 if properly boiled (the jars, 15 minutes after boiling stars) over a 1 year 👌 - La nonna here, didn't do it, it's another technique for the 'seal up' I usually see in here in Italy 🇮🇹, guess there are different ways to do it
Oh my, 2.7 million views and you deserve every one of them! I've been watching a few hours worth of videos about canning tomatoes today and I'm so glad I found yours. I'll be doing exactly what you did today. I have about 15 lbs. of tomatoes to process from my garden today and another 15 lbs. to process tomorrow. I just don't have the stamina like you to do it all at once. You are a beautiful sole. God bless you and may God still bless America.
Oh, Grandma Gina, you warm my heart and bring tears to my eyes! Thank you for sharing your knowledge through your wonderful cooking lessons. Thank you for showing us that a small prayer before a huge task is always as important as all the other ingredients. And, thank you for sharing your gratitude! Buon-a-petitti!
The ending made me cry. There are just no words to say how special Gina is! God Bless all of you.--------------Tressa Daigle
A lot of people who have not had the pleasure to know an Italian grandmother, have not experienced making these amazing foods which are very labor intensive and become such a memorable family event every year. These days, many moms and grandmothers find themselves making them alone, as they age, so they stop. Whether it’s snapping beans, or canning goods, it’s a good time to bond with your family. I wish I had an Italian grandmother that I could spend a day peeling tomatoes with. Don’t let this become a lost art; gather the family and put the electronics down and create your own rich family memories. Thanks, Gina. You warm my heart. ❤️
You are absolutely precious. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It was a pleasure to watch. :)
Watching this made me happy. It totally changed the tone of my day.
I love how she always finds a way to tuck her food in for a nap. She's so cute and the recipes are great too!
J Coburn My favorite was her first Bread & Pizza dough video, when she picked up that heavy pan with all that dough and carried it to her little couch in the living room then covered it with 3 more heavy blankets❣️❣️❣️That’s a Real Italian Super Mom‼️❤️🥰
I have been binge-watching this and I am so happy every time I watch. Love you, grandma!
Four years on and she's still getting views and still getting praise. She is truly a treasure.
Why giving this video a dislike? It’s only there, informative, funny and yummy!
No harm to anyone!
Greetings from Germany!
Exactly
It’s beautiful to watch, our family does it the same way ,it’s a real tradition we’ve bee doing it for 35 years... before that my wife use to do it with her mother since she was a little girl... Now we do it with 4 families We have 6 burners and 3 machines,lots of work but great Joy!!!
She said she little prayer and tucked it in a comforter. Talk about made with love.
I’ve never been interested in any cooking shows ever, but yours are an instant addiction Grandma Gina, I shared your video with my boss and she’s subbed too!
So grateful to YOU for your heartfelt passion, hard work, and overflowing love for all!
Continued blessings to your beautiful, supportive family too, a precious and priceless gift indeed💓
I watch this video every time I make sauce. My family loves this recipe and Mrs. Gina. Thank you for teaching us how to do this and helping us to start our own family traditions.
She is absolutely wonderful. I love cooking from scratch and it’s hard to find videos that are so authentic. God bless this Grandmother🙏
Thank you nonna for helping to preserve these techniques for generations to follow! ❤️
I rewatch these every year before I make the sauce and the canned tomatoes. I love the clear simple instructions and your enthusiasm and joy fills me with energy. Thank you so much Gina and family.
I started making food from scratch and jars ...and cheese from scratch and kefir and anything is possible for healthy reason and now I'm 53 and my grandmother and my mother are not here anymore can't ask them how it should be done...soo when I found grandma Gina's videos just warm up my heart...thanks for making those videos please don't stop I'm learning soo much from you.
In these quarantine times this video actually made my lonely easter, thank you so very much. I actually dont feel even half as lonely now and for that I am so grateful.
Yes thank you for doing this video!! It is a lot of work but very important tradition for the family. Those look beautiful!! Grazie per tutti Gina!
She is adorable! I learned a lot from her and pray her long life, you are all blessed to have her and thank you for sharing her with all of us!
I love her already. Please live for 100 more years
Hello Grandma. Im also a Grandma. Ha Ha! Looks like you have a very good team working with you! I just wanted to say thank you to you and your lovely family for giving us this opportunity to make lovely home made provisions for our kitchen. I love it! And I love you and your family too!!
Her sealing method is actually sound science. By taking the hot jarred sauce and inverting and cooling slowly, she is allowing the head space in the jar to cool away from the seal creating vacuum pressure pulling the flat lid into place. Luckily tomato sauce needs less that 5# of pressure to seal.
Except the water bath is better for sealing the lid and killing bacteria. I imagine hers isn't meant for long term storage though; probably doesn't last that long.
@@Cynnas agreed. Her method is called open kettle canning. It's no longer an acceptable preservation storage method.
@@mynameisfriday118 actually it still works… Must be a miracle…
Gina you are what we need a gazillion more of! The world would be a much better place. Your food is delicious but you are exquisite.
Covid 19 in 2020 and everyone at home looking for stuff to do! God Bless this sweet woman! For sharing her ways of canning tomatoes 🍅
Grandma’s are the best ever. She know what she is doing, she’s probably been at it for 40-50 years. I will follow grandma’s channel
I smiled the whole time...this was so genuine...I wish I had my grandmother around to teach me these things....thank goodness for UA-cam
This brought so much joy to an otherwise gloomy day. I was midway through before I even realized I had been grinning the entire time as I felt like I was watching a beloved nonna pass down her recipes. I was comforted (?) in its authenticity and can sense that she genuinely cooks from a place of love and passion. Like it should be...
In 1983 I was in the USAF and I was sent to Sardinia. I was just a stupid young kid. I met a guy named Felicio who invited me to his house for dinner with his entire family. They taught me how to make sauce exactly the same Gina does. I have now watched this video 6 times. Gratzie!
God bless this beautiful lady passing down her traditions with such happy and enthusiastic energy ❤️❤️❤️
Wow! Reminds me of when I lived in Rome New York with the large Italian population. I loved them, their food, and their culture. A complete blessing when they came to America. Thank you so much for your cooking and showing the love you put in your food!
I was crying the whole time watching, so happy when I used to make la salsa with my Nonna Santina every September. Thank you so much Nonna Gina, you are amazing!
One of the greatest things I've ever seen on UA-cam! Thank you.
I remember tomato harvest in Italy. I was 10 living in Carovigno. All the old ladies around the city had their tables out making salsa. The town smelled like tomato and it was so wonderful. It was a massive effort. I miss it so much!
Wow! This woman is the real deal! Thank God for people who love to make great food.
Such a sweet lady to share 💕 Look at how hard she works to make her beautiful sauce!! 💝💝💝
You know she's a professional grandma because she's got two stoves to cook on and a giant stick.
Perfecto👌
The Sauce is for the year ahead and FAMILY !! ( did u not hear that ? ) ah ! Giant stick is for u !!
😅 truth
@@Roger-ci4tp hehehe
Not only 2 stove.....2 stove in the garage....
What a wonderful lady and a great teacher. Thank you very much. You are a sweetheart and I can only imagine how much love goes into your food. Bless you.
Thank You Nona Gina!
My Nona was from Gravina Italy. She went to Heaven in 1999. She would have been 118 years old now. You speak just like her. I am so lucky that I found you here on the internet. You bring her back to me each time I hear you speak. God Bless You Nona Gina . Victoria
LOL I was thinking about how much I like her accent. RIP to our lost loved ones.
saltytsp ?
What an amazing Lady. I just hope the next batch of Nonna's are as wonderful. My Grandmother was Scottish and just the same, kind, loving, generous and an amazing cook. Thank you.
I grew up in Italy and we used to do the same every year in August! The only difference that after the machine we didn't used to cook/boil in the pot but directly put the tomato sauce inside washed up beer bottles, cap them and placed in a cut barrel filled with water. Boiled the water in the barrel and then waited to cool off.
All good and great Natural Tomato sauce for two years!
That is how my wife and I canned tomatoes when we lived in Italy. .
In light of CoVid-19, I have a genuine appreciation for this beautiful Italian woman and her passion for cooking for her family. Blessings ~
Same here ! She popped up in mind yesterday when I was shopping to stock up and I had an aha moment at the sight of roma tomatoes... i just wish marzanos were available.
I just found Gina's channel and absolutely adore her and enjoyed watching how she cans sauce! This italian mama enjoyed it very much!!! God bless!
Your joy after seeing your shelves full of sauce is just lovely, thanks for being such a great teacher Gina!
How in the world can people thumbs down this video? Some of these comments are just rude! She was so cute doing the sign of the cross before starting the milling machine! You’re just so sweet!
After watching this video last year, I planted about 20 Roma tomato plants. I have been throwing them in the freezer once they're ripe. I now have about 30 pounds to make sauce with tomorrow! I can't wait to do it your way. I bought a processor that's just plastic but should get the job done. Blessings to you Nana Gina! I use your videos for all the Italian food at my house.
This video is the reason UA-cam needs to add a "love" button!
What a sweet lady! God bless her with health and long life. I love Italy and the Italians.
Thank u so much grandma...u are a blessing. Love from Nigeria
I loved her italiglish. God bless her.
I love the joy that she gets from making this tomato sauce. What a beautiful smile ❤️
God Bless you grandma Gina. It is a lot of work to jar tomatoes but you do it with such joy. Your family is blessed to have you. Thank you for sharing ❤ 😊
How can ANYONE give this a thumbs down???!!!! LOVE HER... she makes my heart happy and nostalgic all at once... Missing my mother and Nonna... God bless your family and for sharing your secrets! 😄😘🥰🙏
Probably a bunch of atheist because they noticed she is a Christian. That happens quite a bit.
Mama you are. Wonderful , thanks for sharing .these. Video is 2 years now and people are still commenting till date and these very moment it's really awesome .
Lots of 💜💙💙🖤💚💚💚
Simply amazing. Salt, fresh basil and freshly cooked tomato sauce, ready to use in any recipe. Everything is how my mother instructed except she also put the lids in boiling hot water. Why are there thumbs down?
I love this lady ! She has a way that just makes me feel good. I love her recipes, but most of all, I love her positive attitude. I think the world could use a lot more ladies like her
SO HARD WORKING... WELL DONE GRANDMA...
This may be the best cooking video I have ever seen! I definitely need to buy a good tomato grinder as I grow 80 tomato plants each year but Gina's recipe is so simple but still precise. And I now have a good excuse to buy even larger pots :) I'm German but I'm going to tell my wife "Aunt Gina" said I had to do it!
I miss canning with my Mother and Grandmother. Gina, you make me want to buy a grinder and start up again., it takes so much work without it!
What a gem of a lady to share her love and expertise
My wife’s family (Sicilian) has been making their own sauce for years. This year my wife followed Ms. Gina’s way of jarring the sauce without having to boil the jars separately. This saved my wife a lot of time. We thank you. Your great!! God Bless!! Oh and I’m buying your book. 🤫🙂👍
I smile every time I watch one of your videos! 😊 Thank you so much for doing what you do!
Mille grazie! 😍😍😍
Long ago we used the hand operated machine and making 5-6 times much more sauce than in the video. Family, relatives and neighbors-friends all worked together then had a feast and shared the final product. Lot of hard work but these were joyful days.
I swear I could smell those tomatoes cooking! You're an inspiration. I am just learning to do some canning and had no idea the sauce could be canned the way you do it. I understand the boiling sauce helps seal the lids, and I believe the weight of the jar presses the lids down and that's why they are turned upside down.
God bless you always! Ave Maria!
What a JOY it is to watch these videos. I grew up in a family that never cooked. In the 70's- 80's, where frozen food was king. Frozen pizza, then delivery came along. These secrets were lost. Thank you, Gramma! My family will not go into their lives without your knowledge. 💗