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.
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!
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.
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. ❤❤❤
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.
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! 🤗
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.
For those who commented negatively, I think she's been doing this recipe and tomato puree way before you guys we're born it's all about "common sense" "botulism" can acquired if you don't do it the right she specifically shown to turn it upside down. So when you see it the next morning and if there's mark around the rim when it was left upside down overnight, indicates that the content in the jar is not safe to consume. Thank you.
@@chintancioco-torres1139 I know right. These people think they know better than a woman who has lived way longer than any of them. It's insane. Truly.
@@WinstonSmithGPT funny cuz her family has been doing just fine under her rule for a very very long time. Stop hating. Your way is NOT the only way and it's high time you people understand that. You truly do believe your better in every way. It's just cringe. Leave Nona alone!
She's doing the inversion sealing method, the thought behind this is the hot tomato sauce will cause the lid to seal more tightly, , the mark around the lid doesn't mean it's unsafe to eat, it's only a couple of hours old, these jars will ve kept in the fridge and WILL KEEP FOR 3 MONTHS, I've been a chef for 30yrs this is basic food knowledge, botulism wtf , if yoyr gonna comment atleast do a bit of research first
Also she’s boiled it for the correct time for the correct temperature to kill botulism. ALSO, tomatoes are an acidic FRUIT so not a vegetable. She knows what’s she’s doing. Her English beats my Italian hands down ❤❤❤ The nitpickers are the ones who eat processed food and McDs, heaven preserve us…
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‼️❤️🥰
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.
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
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! ❤
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It kills me, these people telling you how to do things. I am quite certain you DO NOT need their advice, about no need to sterilize jars and water bath canning. I bet you have done this since before they were born. You are awesome!! Thank you for taking the time to make this video❤️. Those tomatoes are absolutely beautiful. Much appreciated!
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. ❤️
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!!!
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!
Hi Nonna. I followed your instructions and made the sauce with my mum. Next year I will make more. You remind me of both my Babas (grandmas). One looks like you and the other used to sing and tell stories of how life used be in the old country. I enjoy and appreciate your videos, they remind me of my childhood growing up with my grandparents and extended family. God bless you.
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 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 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!
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💓
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
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 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!
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 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 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.
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! 😄😘🥰🙏
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.
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 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.
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 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!
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.
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 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...
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!
I want to say thank you to Gina and her family for this video, brings back so many memories, I met my wife 31 years ago and when I first ate at her house with her mom, dad and sister we sat down to an awesome pasta dinner to which my wife mentioned they make their own “gravy” now gravy to me was brown sauce you put in meat, long story short I now call gravy myself, I started helping making the gravy in their basement 25 years ago with one 4 burner stove and a small kitchen sink, we spent many hours down there every August, cooking jarring then of course the cleaning afterwards, 10 years ago my mother in law said to me “Michael I trust you now to make this all yourself for you and your family” since then I make 20 bushels every August with my oldest son and my wife exactly the way I saw in the video, we even have the same machine used in this video, those big pots, with a big wooden spoon, only difference is I do it in the garage and use propane burners, I can honestly say I’m in tears sharing this with all, my mother in law is 87 now suffering from dementia, it’s sad because she taught me so much, not to brag but I make my own breads, cookies, pastas, cakes, pies, and trust me it shows lol, my mother is law is from a small town called Cervinara but watching Gina she reminds me so much of watching my mother in law cook and never wanting help, we also are from NJ but now reside in Pennsylvania, but I do get the tomatoes from a farm in Flanders NJ, always good pickings. I just wanna say thank you again Gina I will continue to watch your videos so please keep making them. Mike
Beautiful story mike. Thank you for sharing your memories. It's such a blessing to receive the knowledge passed down to us from the generation before. Bless your mother in law.
You have the perfect set up! Alot of work but I can tell you enjoy it! A few years ago my grandmother kept asking about tomatoes every day she said she wanted to can tomatoes. Finally I went to a you pick farm and picked 20 - 5 gallon bucket fulls (they were cheap only 4 dollars for a bucket full). I brought her the first bucket she was so excited she said "Jason they are so pretty" little did she know I had 19 more buckets on the truck. I remember her face when I kept bringing in the buckets she said my Lord what am I going to do with all these tomatoes....well she canned them all and never asked for any more she was 95 at the time and she died at 97. I miss her so much.
What a wonderful thing you did for your grandmother. I hope I'm still canning tomatoes at 95 and my grandkids bring me a truck load of tomatoes. God Bless!
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!
I got spoiled ...my step grandmother was old world like this ....best damn cook in the whole wide world ...she would send me home with a care package ...."you have this for lunch tomorrow"..... nope ! I had it for breakfast the next day .... she also made Cannelloni ! ....never have I had anything so good in my life !!
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.
Thank You Mama Gina, this summer I am Going to grow some Roma tomatoes And try canning some tomato sauce, Pray for me and my Tomatoes to grow. Have a Very Blessed Day
I love this video very much. Brings back a lot of memories. And for those people who gave this a thumbs down it's obvious they're eating out of a can and can't even spell the word sauce... LOL! God bless all of you!
Me too. My grandparents were from Italy and when I was a girl, me, my mother and siblings went to a large farm to pick bushes of tomatoes for canning sauce. We had the old crank grinder. It was a lot of work but so worth it.
The person with the botulism concern did not listen well, she turned them upside down or they would burst, plus Gina checked them. She said if the top could be pressed in, she threw them out. Gina is an Italian national treasure. We love her!
It’s still wrong…safe measures is water canning for 30 mins…she didn’t do that time at the higher temp, so yes..she could get someone really sick! Plus she didn’t have any lemon juice or acid power to keep them acidic for longer storage…it’s just awesome the sauce she made.. but it’s risky processing! As some one whose been sick from bad canning.. YIkES 😳!
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.
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!!
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.
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!!
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? 🙏
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
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.
Protect our Italian grandma at all costs!! She is a national treasure! 😂😂
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. ❤❤❤
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😢
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.
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
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! 🤗
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.
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.
I almost shed a tear when Nona was thanking everyone. :') She's so pure
For those who commented negatively, I think she's been doing this recipe and tomato puree way before you guys we're born it's all about "common sense" "botulism" can acquired if you don't do it the right she specifically shown to turn it upside down. So when you see it the next morning and if there's mark around the rim when it was left upside down overnight, indicates that the content in the jar is not safe to consume. Thank you.
It’s perfectly safe to consume immediately but won’t keep, just to be clear.
@@chintancioco-torres1139 I know right. These people think they know better than a woman who has lived way longer than any of them. It's insane. Truly.
@@WinstonSmithGPT funny cuz her family has been doing just fine under her rule for a very very long time. Stop hating. Your way is NOT the only way and it's high time you people understand that. You truly do believe your better in every way. It's just cringe. Leave Nona alone!
She's doing the inversion sealing method, the thought behind this is the hot tomato sauce will cause the lid to seal more tightly, , the mark around the lid doesn't mean it's unsafe to eat, it's only a couple of hours old, these jars will ve kept in the fridge and WILL KEEP FOR 3 MONTHS, I've been a chef for 30yrs this is basic food knowledge, botulism wtf , if yoyr gonna comment atleast do a bit of research first
Also she’s boiled it for the correct time for the correct temperature to kill botulism. ALSO, tomatoes are an acidic FRUIT so not a vegetable. She knows what’s she’s doing. Her English beats my Italian hands down ❤❤❤
The nitpickers are the ones who eat processed food and McDs, heaven preserve us…
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‼️❤️🥰
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.
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
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! ❤
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…
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.
This woman just stole my heart. This is how to learn to cook. From Grandma, step by step in the kitchen. Beautiful!
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.
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.
Why giving this video a dislike? It’s only there, informative, funny and yummy!
No harm to anyone!
Greetings from Germany!
Exactly
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 love this lady. We need to hold our elders dear to our hearts. Their knowledge is worth more than silver and gold.
I just love her. How could you not? She is just wonderful
You are smart to video her, you will treasure these forever!
It kills me, these people telling you how to do things. I am quite certain you DO NOT need their advice, about no need to sterilize jars and water bath canning. I bet you have done this since before they were born. You are awesome!! Thank you for taking the time to make this video❤️. Those tomatoes are absolutely beautiful. Much appreciated!
😂❤️ 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. ❤️
This video is the reason UA-cam needs to add a "love" button!
She is the sweetest person on UA-cam! Thank you for teaching us your way.
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. ❤️
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!!!
I loved her italiglish. God bless her.
The ending made me cry. There are just no words to say how special Gina is! God Bless all of you.--------------Tressa Daigle
Please keep her safe in these scary times. We can't lose this precious woman.
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
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!
She said she little prayer and tucked it in a comforter. Talk about made with love.
When you have more ovens in your basement you know you’re hard core cooking. Bravo to Italian grandmas!!
Hi Nonna. I followed your instructions and made the sauce with my mum. Next year I will make more. You remind me of both my Babas (grandmas). One looks like you and the other used to sing and tell stories of how life used be in the old country. I enjoy and appreciate your videos, they remind me of my childhood growing up with my grandparents and extended family. God bless you.
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 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 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!
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💓
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.
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I love her already. Please live for 100 more years
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 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!
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!
She is seriously the most adorable and sweet grandma ever! I absolutely love her!!! Im laughing and tearing up watching her videos!
Couldn't have said it better myself! I wanna hug from Gina ❤
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 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 have been binge-watching this and I am so happy every time I watch. Love you, grandma!
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.
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!
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.
SO HARD WORKING... WELL DONE GRANDMA...
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!!!
One of the greatest things I've ever seen on UA-cam! Thank you.
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.
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.
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 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. .
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.
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.
Watching this made me happy. It totally changed the tone of my day.
I have a lot of respect for this woman...A different generation that worked all their life. Hard work!
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...
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
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!
“Nice ah easy “ ,she make ah bed , they ah sleepy here. .” . Love this Grandma . 😍❤️. She blessed the sauce . 🙏🏻
"you gotta take-a da tomato and doowa like-a disa witta litta salt-a and a litta worra" You gotta love this Nonna :)
Your joy after seeing your shelves full of sauce is just lovely, thanks for being such a great teacher Gina!
I want to say thank you to Gina and her family for this video, brings back so many memories, I met my wife 31 years ago and when I first ate at her house with her mom, dad and sister we sat down to an awesome pasta dinner to which my wife mentioned they make their own “gravy” now gravy to me was brown sauce you put in meat, long story short I now call gravy myself, I started helping making the gravy in their basement 25 years ago with one 4 burner stove and a small kitchen sink, we spent many hours down there every August, cooking jarring then of course the cleaning afterwards, 10 years ago my mother in law said to me “Michael I trust you now to make this all yourself for you and your family” since then I make 20 bushels every August with my oldest son and my wife exactly the way I saw in the video, we even have the same machine used in this video, those big pots, with a big wooden spoon, only difference is I do it in the garage and use propane burners, I can honestly say I’m in tears sharing this with all, my mother in law is 87 now suffering from dementia, it’s sad because she taught me so much, not to brag but I make my own breads, cookies, pastas, cakes, pies, and trust me it shows lol, my mother is law is from a small town called Cervinara but watching Gina she reminds me so much of watching my mother in law cook and never wanting help, we also are from NJ but now reside in Pennsylvania, but I do get the tomatoes from a farm in Flanders NJ, always good pickings. I just wanna say thank you again Gina I will continue to watch your videos so please keep making them. Mike
Beautiful story mike. Thank you for sharing your memories. It's such a blessing to receive the knowledge passed down to us from the generation before. Bless your mother in law.
mike dempsey Oh! This is a beautiful story and tribute. Feeling the love!! 💝
Mike you are a beautiful person!!
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 🍅
She is absolutely wonderful. I love cooking from scratch and it’s hard to find videos that are so authentic. God bless this Grandmother🙏
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!
You have the perfect set up! Alot of work but I can tell you enjoy it! A few years ago my grandmother kept asking about tomatoes every day she said she wanted to can tomatoes. Finally I went to a you pick farm and picked 20 - 5 gallon bucket fulls (they were cheap only 4 dollars for a bucket full). I brought her the first bucket she was so excited she said "Jason they are so pretty" little did she know I had 19 more buckets on the truck. I remember her face when I kept bringing in the buckets she said my Lord what am I going to do with all these tomatoes....well she canned them all and never asked for any more she was 95 at the time and she died at 97. I miss her so much.
What a beautiful story.
What a wonderful thing you did for your grandmother. I hope I'm still canning tomatoes at 95 and my grandkids bring me a truck load of tomatoes.
God Bless!
@@BuonAPetitti be careful of what you ask for!
that is beautiful i miss my great grandma (nanny) too.
@@meghanblizzard5230 me too Meghan. You don't realize what you have till it's gone
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!
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
Four years on and she's still getting views and still getting praise. She is truly a treasure.
Ooh my God I love her, Thank you Gramma Gina, in love with her English with Italian accent
I got spoiled ...my step grandmother was old world like this ....best damn cook in the whole wide world ...she would send me home with a care package ...."you have this for lunch tomorrow"..... nope ! I had it for breakfast the next day .... she also made Cannelloni ! ....never have I had anything so good in my life !!
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.
Respect to the lady for speaking english. Reminds me of my grandma :)
I wish I was quarantined with Gina!!
you would eat like a roman emperor
I was just thinking the same thing. I would love to learn from her. Her videos are awesome.
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!
The smile on her face showing us her canned sauce stock. :)
Thank You Mama Gina, this summer I am
Going to grow some Roma tomatoes
And try canning some tomato sauce,
Pray for me and my Tomatoes to grow.
Have a Very Blessed Day
Thank you nonna for helping to preserve these techniques for generations to follow! ❤️
I love this video very much. Brings back a lot of memories. And for those people who gave this a thumbs down it's obvious they're eating out of a can and can't even spell the word sauce... LOL! God bless all of you!
Me too. My grandparents were from Italy and when I was a girl, me, my mother and siblings went to a large farm to pick bushes of tomatoes for canning sauce. We had the old crank grinder. It was a lot of work but so worth it.
I love the joy that she gets from making this tomato sauce. What a beautiful smile ❤️
The person with the botulism concern did not listen well, she turned them upside down or they would burst, plus Gina checked them. She said if the top could be pressed in, she threw them out. Gina is an Italian national treasure. We love her!
It’s still wrong…safe measures is water canning for 30 mins…she didn’t do that time at the higher temp, so yes..she could get someone really sick! Plus she didn’t have any lemon juice or acid power to keep them acidic for longer storage…it’s just awesome the sauce she made.. but it’s risky processing! As some one whose been sick from bad canning.. YIkES 😳!
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 u so much grandma...u are a blessing. Love from Nigeria
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!!
Such a sweet lady to share 💕 Look at how hard she works to make her beautiful sauce!! 💝💝💝