I would not say that there was a lot of love, and kindness in their voices. Actually, they kept interrupting each-other, and sounded stressed out at times. You could let the other person finish their sentence, instead of talking over them.
I once had elderly landlords who were Italian immigrants. They were the salt of the earth! Every summer they made homemade sauce with their garden tomatoes and always shared some with me. They also made their own wine! The wife, Giovanna, would always knock on my door and hand me a bowl of homemade pasta with fresh sauce, or eggplant parmesan, etc. She'd say "Mangia, Mangia!". They treated me like a son. Old school Italians. So sweet.
I lived in Gaeta, Italy for 3 years while serving in the US, Navy... I agree... Mangia, mangia are beautiful words to hear when you are about to experience authentic Italian food.
I watch this to psych myself up for upcoming tomato gardening season. My Dad and me have nice tomato gardens every year and 90% goes to passata. I don't preserve with jars/boiling water; I freeze the passata in 1-gallon freezer bags stacked flat. Works great, if you have a big freezer.
I remember living in an apartment with my pregnant wife in my 20's. We rented from Italian couple but the wife did not speak English. She used to make he own sauce when her garden tomatoes ripened. When l came up the back stairs from work she would always give me home made Italian dishes.....l must have gain 20 lbs. before our son was born. I also fondly remember sitting on a bench with her husband drinking wine out of a jelly jar and talking. Great memories!!!!
These are the stories that not-so-randomly fall into your lap to remind you what humanity needs. Thanks for such a beautiful share. I am constantly sharing baked goods, meals and goodies with my tenants and my daughter recently told me “it’s really weird! Maybe don’t share so much, they might be uncomfortable with so much food sharing.” You reminded me that we don’t do things nearly enough if it’s seen as weird. Sharing should be normal and I would be proud if one day, someone spoke about my food gifts the same way you have; a gentle gift from a fellow human. Cheers!
Im hispanic and I love Italian food. My parents would say I was switched at birth. Somewhere there is an Italian family whose son craves beans and red chile.
I’m Canadian and love Italian food. Italian, Thai, Mexican....anything with a bit of kick. Growing up my parents liked to make roast beef and potatoes. Not usually very adventurous. (Bland) Lol.
Italian food is delicious, but you can find that in many cultures. What I love best here is holding on to traditional values. Passing down quality from generation to generation. Listen to the older people, they speak from the heart.
AHAHAHAHA when the grandma goes away outta nowhere and comes back 5 minutes with her old stuff to show it to us that was so relatable LMAOOOO I'm Asian but that was such a grandma thing to do
I'm glad they got a native italian speaker. The video feels a lot more natural. Italy is such a beautiful country and I like seeing how much more laid back the hosts seems when speaking Italian
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@@wge621 Jesus was nailed by romans. Romans are Italians. Italians like tomatoes. They cut up tomatoes. They cut up Jesus and Tomatoes. Therefore Jesus is a tomato and is relevant to this video
@@hillarysudeikis2264 Jesus Christ, take a chill pill. Also believing that other religions lead to hell seems very cotrary to the things Jesus said. You might want to reflect on your religious stances.
I’m from Congo and my very traditional African grandmother and great grandmother from the karunda tribe made a similar sauce, only difference is we add garlic and thyme to it as it boils. My Grandmother had a popular restaurant in their township and I still make the sauce today and use the sauce as a base to sooo many dishes. I get so many compliments when I cook for friends. Interesting to see. Reminded me of my family ❤️
Growing up I remember my grandmother and I would make the sauce exactly like this video depicted except for one difference. Before sealing the jars we would put a dollop of extra-virgin olive oil to sit on top. We would use two jars a week for Sunday sauce and it would last a whole year. Great memory. I was about eight or nine years old. Now 77.
@@KennyVo120 Hi Kenny .I’m glad you liked the tip. Don’t overdo it. A tablespoon of oil on the top not mixed per 1 quart jar is all you need. It seems to blend with the sweetness of the tomato and overtime lends a genuine taste nuance. Remember, real Italian cooking is simple. Resist the temptation to clutter your recipes with stuff that never belong in that recipe. That’s what Americans have done. Keep it clean and genuine and enjoy the flavors of nature.L
I lived in Naples for three years and the families living in the Apartments from across us would bring out their huge cauldrons and cook their tomato sauce all day. I love Italy and their traditions.
My mum has been doing it for the last 3 or so years. She watches Italian TH-cam, movies and TV pretty comfortably and also reads the Italian news. Hardly needs subtitles anymore really only for specialist words and dialects. Still practices almost every day. English was her 2nd language from about 24 and Italian was her 3rd from about 50
It really is a beautiful, elegant, soothing language. As calming and soothing as Hebrew, or Aramaic. If you ask me, Italian is a much more beautiful and romantic language than French (from both a linguistic and personal point of view).
You know, it’s kinda crazy to see how much tradition and culture can develop in 400 years. (Tomatoes were introduced to Italy in the 16th century and didn’t take off until a century later) I actually really like the familial hierarchy of making traditional tomato sauce. It’s like… artisans training to perfect their art form. An apprentice never starts out making the complicated stuff, they do the little things, the fundamentals, over and over and over again for years until they’ve perfected it. They slowly, ever so slowly, rise through the tiers of tasks and steps, perfecting along the way, getting it just right, until eventually you’re Nonna. You’ve mastered your art, practicing every season for 60, 70, 80, maybe even 90 years or more. You know precisely how to get it right every time. Your family, centuries before you and centuries after you, are blessed by the multi-generational perfection of a single, simple, food staple. I may not be Italian, not even fractionally, but this is the way I want my future family to make tomato sauce
Your take on this is completely whack. The younger generation working on the more menial tasks is not about mastering some elusive craft that takes 80 years to develop. Have you not heard they saying about the fecal matter and the elevation change and whatnot?
@@sj1roese Proof that people online can get mad about anything (even a very nice comment about tomato sauce)... He wasn't saying it takes 80 years to develop; he was indeterminate about how long mastering it would take. He basically just said you start out doing something simple and get better the longer you do it... You gotta chill dude.
I still make my sauce like this every year and I live in the USA. I've done this since I was a little girl with my mother and aunts. I made 98 jars this year.
My maternal grandmother was born in Sicily, Italy and migrated to New York, so I was very fortunate to spend a lot of time with her in the kitchen, God rest her soul. This took me back to how she taught us to make sauce. What a wonderful memory thanks to Dina, Isabella and Federica.
You are lucky to have such a rich culinary family history from Italy to New york....we love italian cooking, especially from the small family run restaurants in Italy....the best food experiences
@@hostesswiththemostess7082 it is a blessing, though I'm nowhere near the cook she was. Family gatherings to this day are always a treat getting to sample all the goods everyone cooks when we all get together. I can't wait to do that again once all this COVID garbage is over.
@@siddhant... yes, but they've all long since passed away, God rest their souls. All but one and he's turned his life to God in an effort for salvation.
Making tomato sauce was a big event here in South Italy. My whole family would gather, and other neighbour families, and we would make the sauce with the tomatoes from our fields, over a couple days, and stock it for the whole year. We would have a big celebration lunch all togheter when finished. I miss my grandparents ..
@@fmls8266 Tomatoes also grow well in Trentino and you don't need to have particular types to make the sauce at home. The popular tradition of northern Italy includes tomato sauce and preserves it for the winter. Now you can go back to counting your neurons
I'm Italian, from Naples and I remember when me, my grandparents and the whole family used to make them in July every year! My happiest memories date back to those days! 😭
@@katiehuynh03 I think (at least in my experience) kids grow older, they go away to study and work, there is no time... Younger generations would rather buy the sauce at the grocery shop than having the hassle of doing all that work, and so rituals passed from generation to generation just fade away without no one even noticing.
This reminds me of making sauce with my grandma in Brooklyn in the 50's. She was from Italy and we did it all by hand. I later became an Italian chef and had a restaurant in the Bronx. I love to cook and watch people enjoy the food I make, simple and delicious just like this video. Thanks for the memories!
many years ago I lived next door to a family from Naples. One year they showed me how to do the passata by hand with a handful of tomatoes from my own garden. I've been making it the same way ever since. No jarred or store bought sauce comes close. my mouth is watering the whole time watching this video!
I'm from Melbourne in Australia, of Italian parents, and this is exactly how we, and the large Italian community here, make our passata (every February here in the southern hemisphere). As in this video, it is a family affair. You start out as a kid doing simple tasks, then gradually move up the ranks until you eventually work the machine. The General overseeing the whole operation is always Nonna. Supervising, advising, occasionally admonishing and having the final word on quality control & seasoning. It's a fantastic tradition, it brings the family together, and the pasta sauce ALWAYS tastes better with home made passata!
What a blessing to grow up with generations in the kitchen learning to cook, can, and working together. Many of his did not have that experience. Count your blessings if you did, and keep that tradition going. It's golden! 💖
Back home in Abruzzo, we used to do it every year in the summer, and it was a real ritual. All the family reunited, working from early morning to late night. Each one had his role, us kids as well. Good ol' times ❤🍅🇮🇹
My grandmother was born and raised in Italy and this was how she made her tomato sauce, except she called it gravy. Everything was homemade and I can still imagine the taste of her minestrone soup and raviolis, especially when she fried them. I loved listening to her speak Italian with my father. I miss you, Nona and Daddy.
@@adelebonaccolta9619 Maybe not the Italians you know who were born in the U.S., but my grandmother, who was born and raised in Italy did and so did my Italian neighbor, who was also born and raised in Italy.
I received your answer and I need to explain why your grandmother used to call it it gravy, As newcomers from Italy and that includes me and the rest of my family, we tried very hard to assimilate to the American way, when I got Married and my mother in law called the sauce "gravy" I never corrected her, because I thought that in the US that's what it meant, but when people from Italy leave their country, they try their best to get along with others and not change their ways, so what your grandmother did was change her way to the Italian/American way. No one in Italy calls Tomato sauce "gravy", it doesn't exist. We call it Salsa.
@@adelebonaccolta9619 I grew up with it being called gravy. I don't call it that anymore since my grandmother is gone and my mother no longer cooks due to her age. I never heard my grandmother or my father and uncle, who's first language was Italian, refer to tomato sauce as salsa. All the Italians on my street from Italy, most are gone now, called it gravy. Don't know where there got it. By the way, my grandmother's name was Adelina, but she went by Adele. Very pretty name.
@@jenmarks6594 my grandmother's name was Adele and I was named after her, the relatives called her Adelina, but the proper name is Adele. In the home we called the sauce, salsa, but the proper name is Sugo, I was born and raised in Sicily (which is part of Italy) just like Long Island is part of New York, I came in the US at 12, so that part of my life I lived and went to school in Italy. If you don't believe me just ask a person that's from Italy and I guarantee they'll agree with me. You weren't born there to know better, you only learned from your grandmother and your mom which they tried to translate that word in English. Let me ask you a question, when you go to a restaurant, do you order penne or spaghetti with gravy?...
I grew up in North Greece and I remember every August making tomato sauce and peach marmalade in huge pots in the garden with my grandma! Central Northern Greece is known for its peaches and every family has peach trees there.
What a great video! I love seeing old traditions being passed down. I'm 64 now and I live in South Carolina. I remember me, my dad, my grandfather, an uncle and two cousins making homemade molasses one day using sugar cane, a mule that walked in a circle to turn the mill that we fed the cane into to extract the sugars, burning oak wood and stainless steal trays to slowly cook the syrup as it passed over the fire to cook and brown the syrup on the tray as it slowly made it's way down to the jars. That was 1974 and it's in my mind like it was yesterday.
I have grown up canning tomatoes with my great grandma, grandma, and my mom. My first job was washing the jars. My hands could fit into them the easiest. I still remember standing on a chair next to the sink washing jars while they where canning. This was one of the things that built the bond with the family. The garden had to be harvested and preserved. Those are some of my best memories
Do this tomatoes have any taste? In my country only the type that is irregular in shape and big have taste, the other ones don't really taste, and definitely not the ones from import from italy, spain, turkey...
@@cristibaluta the tomatoes we can are either grown in our garden or a local farmer in the ground. Unfortunately many of the tomatoes you buy in the store are grown in water with fertilizer added to it. Tomatoes grown that way have no taste at all the are worthless.
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. The generations working together to keep their recipe alive is just the way life should be. Reminds me of my mother teaching me her mad kitchen skills 💚 She’s passed 10 months ago now So thank you for that trigger of happiness in memories
What were your mother's mad kitchen skills?🤔 MY mother was a great cook but she taught me NO skills. I truly regret that and I am a terrible cook-- always cooking by the seat of my pants. I have been buying organic pasta sauce at Aldi's but the price went out from 135 to 195 with inflation so I'm thinking now to get the crushed tomatoes in a can I do worry though because my current comes in a glass jar while the crushed tomatoes will come in a tin can which I know bleed some of the metal into the sauce even if you can't taste it and that cannot be good for you
Do you happen to be American, Canadian, etc.? Highly western nations have forgone many family bonds, traditions, and peacekeeping in favor of money or retirement. Their society reflects this... Spain and Italy have better social safety nets, a little less work obsession, and cohabitation, democracy, and compromise is normal. My future spouse is apalled at my family. Her culture, pre Westernization, frowned upon attitudes like "my house, my rules", and would work together in multi generational settings. It would be selfish and inconsiderate to get a dog when someone is allergic or doesn't want it, and the selfish person would be asked to work through it or reconsider. Kicking someone out is a last resort, as it hurts the family to do so. To constrast, my Canadian mother chose little French dogs over her future grandkids, and she longs to go to France, so she is tight fisted and cynical and can't wait to retire, have the house to her husband, youngest son, and dogs. It is hard to pass a tradition when home life is selfish and turbulent, and culture rewards it as normal. I notice elders from highly Western countries are also hoarding their knowledge, eager to talk and judge, but demand pay to teach even their own children.
@@captaintoad7654 This is very harsh and perpetuates stereotypes of American "toxic individuality" and greed. I can assure you that Americans love their parents and children, to the same extent that non-Western people do. You will find selfish, amoral people in every culture, both Western and non-Western.
I used to do this with my grandparents every year as a little kid in the early 90s, also in Puglia (Sannicandro Garganico). Every neighbour did this on the same day and the street smelled like tomato sauce. Those were the best days of my life, just pure joy.
My father was in a small polka band with two Italian guys…..I know 🥴 We are Hungarian. The Italians used to make us spaghetti dinner with homemade sauce! My mom would make them Hungarian dishes and bakery. It was fun.
I think its amazing how recipes can be passed down to generations after generation. It’s a piece of history that households have and that’s really special. This was a heartwarming video to watch overall
My grandmother made her own sauce and canned it. She lived to be 99 yrs. old. At maybe 85 or so she stopped canning it. The difference in flavor was dramatic. Loved seeing this process with the family all helping. I was the only grand kid who learned how to make ravioli. We worked together in the kitchen, many times. What a joy.
I really miss making sauce like this with my nonna and nonno. The entire family would get together for a week and jar sauce. This really took me back. Instead of doing this outside over a fire we did it in the basement over a gas burner. I also had the job of putting the basil in the jars. I loved feeding the machine too. I think nonna's surveilling the process and telling you you are putting too many in the machine at once is a universal thing.
We adopted this technique recently for our tomatoes. Saved us much time and generated far less waste than before. Thank you thank you, thank you for this!!! 🍅🍅🍅
Being Italian, back in the 50's my Mom had my older sister in the kitchen with her ever since she was 8 years old. My Mom taught her everything she knew about Italian cooking. My sister could duplicate every dish ! No Italian dishes, even in an Italian restaurant could ever come close to my Mom's cooking. What great memories and tastes ! Miss her so much.
Lol this is what everyone says about their family's cooking. It's just bias. If you have people in your family who can cook better than any restaurant and they themselves never tried getting into the business that is silly.
@@forwardmoving8252 Better food isn't just about taste. Other factors include comfort, trusting the cook, familiar environment etc. Also opening a restaurant isn't just about knowing how to cook. It's a whole business.
I'm from Saint-Petersburg(Russia) and my mother every year makes very delicious tomato sauce from different variety of tomato, like yellow tomatoes, "heart of bull", "dames' fingers" and other local varieties of tomato. These sauces are so delicious.
Because theyre not growing without ground and nurtured by substitutes as we have in most countries Tomatoes ancient varieties could be so tasteful you're lucky
It's weird how big of a role tomatoes play in italian cuisine and culture in general considering it's not even a native food to the country. I wonder what Italian food was before the spanish took tomatoes from mexico to europe.
I remember my grandfather making sauce every weekend. On Friday he would take the tomatoes, peeled them then pushed each one through a strainer to remove the seeds. He only used plum tomatoes. Then he would start reducing the sauce on Saturday morning then add the meat about noon. It sat on a low flame all weekend until Sunday dinner. My gramma would make the homemade ravioli. So good. I'm glad I payed attention.
My neighbors do this every summer, the smells and sounds are wonderful! They are the nicest people, we share our garden vegetables, and the foods we create. They have taught me as I started gardening, many years ago.
My in-laws are from Sicilia and before I even got married, I had to help with making il sugo every August to early September. They added onions to their tomatoes and boiled the batch until the onions were clear. After straining, they would simmer the pulp with fresh basil and salt for about an hour before canning in jars. Hard work, but the pay-off...PRICELESS. A little perspective, my family alone goes through 140 to 190 thirty-two ounce jars a year. I didn’t marry an Italian (my wife was born in Toscana) I married a culture!
@final boss This is not true for canning. Preservation guides say to put hot liquid should go into hot jars and then immediately processed in boiling water for the appropriate time. Leaving food to cool first would allow bacteria to grow in the sauce. Anyone canning should look into established food preservation safety guidelines so they don't poison anyone.
@final boss we heat the jars in the oven at 200F for 15 minutes then pour the hot sauce into the jars. We also heat the self sealing lids in boiling water. Only lost about 6 jars from shattering when the sauce was poured in. Double boiling the jars afterward, sometimes. What we do is place the jars on thick cardboard and cover them with blankets. Let them cool for 2 days. The lids seal during the cool down. Haven't lost any sauce to spoilage in over 39 years this way.
Wow so cool. I love how simple the process is and that they let the tomatoes peak for themselves. Love seeing multi-generational families making traditional foods!
Did they invent tomato sauce? Who cares how it is made in Italy. Filthy liberals always sucking up to the Europeans. Europeans have socialized medicine, blah, blah. Europeans make tomato sauce like this, blah, blah.
It is amazing to see how they make it. In my hometown, Tekirdağ, Turkey, my mother, and the neighbors make it almost the same. The difference is that we cut tomatoes in half or more, depending on the size, and boil them the way they do it. After they release their juice, we sieve them through a sift the exactly the same one that belongs to the Nonna. My mom loves using it and sieving with hand. Some use the machine, but my family uses the sift and the hand. Anyway, the other difference is we add salt, sugar a little bit of sunflower oil, and hot peppers - it depends on people's taste- while it is on fire. Also, we do not add basil. Well, there are some differences, but I know that they are the same, and we use our tomato sauce for pizza, pasta, etc.
In my hometown the Italian culture was very strong. Use to go visit friends and the aroma of their cooking would greet you at the front door. Could never understand mom, grandmother and even a few great grandmothers, but fascinated by their cooking.
Beautiful, just beautiful. While we're no italians, I remember my parents doing tomato sauce in our backyard, every fall. Tomatoes grown in our backyard - nothing like San Marzano but still fresh, juicy and good tomatoes. I was a kid, I helped the best I could but my mother was doing all the rest. Wonderful family time. I should have kept that tradition alive, there is nothing like spending quality time with the family.
man I hope the Italian family never disappears, its one of the great treasures of mankind, its comforting to see there's still such a warmth in this technologically cold world
It is such a joy to see these multiple generations of lovely Italian women putting so much love, skill, and wisdom into their craft. It reminds me of how multiple generations of Mexican-American women will get together to make tamales, especially during the holidays.
Those sauces will surely make any pasta dish taste like it came out of a five-star restaurant. Love how the process has been passed down through generations, and also seeing the changes in some of the steps as technology advances.
You can see the love in their eyes for what these awesome women are doing! I’m so lucky that my mom makes all of our spaghetti sauce with homegrown tomatoes and vegetables. Thank you mama❤️
yeah and when she croaks (or she loses her sense of taste due to Covid) they won't know how much she put in. hope they are weighing the jars before and after so they have a record of what she did.
tomatoes are not italian culture, italians have no connection to the origins of tomatoes. most europeans only adopted other peoples foods in just the last couple hundred years.
@@krono5el She didn't say that tomatoes have their origins in Italy but tomatoes have been part of Italian culture, food, for more than several hundred years. So you're statement is completely nonsensical. You cannot think of Italian cuisine without talking of tomato sauce, which is unique to Italy.
Love the old school way of making sauce. It's very special especially when you grew up Italian American. You remember your Nonna, the smells, her hands, etc... and you continue making sauce the same way because you know great Italian cooking comes from quality ingredients.
Blessed to stay with an italian family who had their own red and white wine, olives, olive oil, a garden from which most of the ingredients for the dishes came - wonderful!
Thank you so much for shooting this and showing to the world. The part about "making the sauce is a bonding of 3 generations" is brilliant. Love from India
It's cool to see the youngest daughter of the family also sharing the passion. It's pretty similar here in America (in NY at least) with Italian Americans taking incredible pride in their heritage and trying to learn and pass it down to their children.
Not really. Here in the UK kids have become shorter. It blows my mind as to why people here born in the 1950s and before are sooo much taller as they had a lower standard of living. Perhaps the quality of food has gone down??
@@iseegoodandbad6758 diet, seed oils in practically all packaged food, pasteurization, less meat intake, sedentary lifestyle, etc. is killing Western populations.
Oh my goodness. This is what I've been looking for. Growing up I love to see the Del Monte spaghetti sauce commercial made from tomatoes. This one is the best. I saw all the process and it's all natural. It's my dream to eat authentic Italian food in Italy. Love, from the Philippines 🇵🇭
I'm Italian, my grandfather had some tomatoes plants and my grandma made sauce, not so many bottles like Isabella did :) but enough for family use: it is very common in Italy, sometimes we also buy tomatoes to make a good home made sauce to be used during the cold season to cook spaghetti or pasta. Tomatoes need sun sun sun sun and water, love tomato sauce!
This is where we should go again - handmade soulfood, worshipping la familia and the earth and the love one could feel between this lovely women. Awesome.
The Grandmother reminds me so much of mine....at 81, she appears younger than my dear grandma at 68 when she passed. So nice to see three generations together.
Growing tomatoes are easy. I have tomatoes coming up all by themselves just from seeds that dropped on the ground from the year before. Just protect them from animals groundhogs raccoons they love them.
I DISLIKE ITALY FOOD IT GROSS AND GARBAGE JAPAN MAKES BETTER FOOD SAME WITH CHINA AND EVEN SPANSIH COUNTRY MAKES BETTER FOOD I DONT SEE HOW YOU LIKE THIS GARBAGE ITALY FOOD ITS GROSS COMPARE TO SPANISH FOOD
How refreshing to see 3 generations doing this together. 😍👏 It's the simple things like this shared by the family that is missing in today's society and sadly we are all the worse off for It.
This was an awesome video. As a little girl, I remember my grandfather jarring his tomato sauce. Not the same quantity that these ladies did. He used Mason jars that had the sealing lids. After the cooling of the jars, he would then date them so he rotated the jars using the older then the newer ones. Memories. 😊
For 10 years I cut the lawn of Mrs.Bonfiglio. Her husband died when she was 50 and she didn't die until her 80's and everyday s Since her husband passed she wore black.
This makes you appreciate the traditional ways we each have in our own country,home or anywhere we go in this world. The love and pride that you see in the three generations we are all watching and enjoying is a beautiful thing and makes you appreciate family traditions.
I went to my friend's place in Rome in 1999, she cooked up a quick dish of spaghetti and a simple tomato sauce in a few minutes, fresh tomatoes, that's about it, one of the best spaghetti dishes ever
She's probably been doing that for years and just doesn't have the heart to tell her granddaughter that it's actually supposed to be two leaves in each jar. :)
It’s amazing how older generations when they cook or prepare food they don’t need measurements. They’re taste and experience is all they need. Funny as heck though!!!!
I make hot sauce with my grandmother still im 28 and I absolutely loved this, its nice seeing tradition from all cultures being passed down, simply beautiful.
If you look into how europe acquired tomatoes its a dark and evil story of total death and destruction to the people who created the tomato. so that culture is steeped in pure evil.
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I wish if they interviewed the grandmother more, she was so excited 😍
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There really is nothing like listening to a language you dont understand, but you understand the tone and the love and the intent. Heartwarming.
Right? And you hear the words you read in the subtitles and listen how differently they pronounce it. Nice.
I would not say that there was a lot of love, and kindness in their voices. Actually, they kept interrupting each-other, and sounded stressed out at times. You could let the other person finish their sentence, instead of talking over them.
everyone loves and partially understands italiano...the most beautiful language in existance
so true, when i watch foreigh netflix shows i read the subtitles but have to have the volume up to hear exactly what you stated.
Understand Spanish, you can make out Italian.
I once had elderly landlords who were Italian immigrants. They were the salt of the earth! Every summer they made homemade sauce with their garden tomatoes and always shared some with me. They also made their own wine! The wife, Giovanna, would always knock on my door and hand me a bowl of homemade pasta with fresh sauce, or eggplant parmesan, etc. She'd say "Mangia, Mangia!". They treated me like a son. Old school Italians. So sweet.
Not quite at the Horse head stage yet...
Luck you!
I lived in Gaeta, Italy for 3 years while serving in the US, Navy... I agree... Mangia, mangia are beautiful words to hear when you are about to experience authentic Italian food.
@@JazzFunkNobby1964 🤣
@@JavaRatusso Amen.
I re-watch this about twice per year. So beautiful to see three generations of a family create the sauce. I'd love to see more about their gardens.
right on
Same here
I watch this to psych myself up for upcoming tomato gardening season. My Dad and me have nice tomato gardens every year and 90% goes to passata. I don't preserve with jars/boiling water; I freeze the passata in 1-gallon freezer bags stacked flat. Works great, if you have a big freezer.
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I remember living in an apartment with my pregnant wife in my 20's. We rented from Italian couple but the wife did not speak English. She used to make he own sauce when her garden tomatoes ripened. When l came up the back stairs from work she would always give me home made Italian dishes.....l must have gain 20 lbs. before our son was born. I also fondly remember sitting on a bench with her husband drinking wine out of a jelly jar and talking. Great memories!!!!
what a lovely story :)
These are the stories that not-so-randomly fall into your lap to remind you what humanity needs. Thanks for such a beautiful share. I am constantly sharing baked goods, meals and goodies with my tenants and my daughter recently told me “it’s really weird! Maybe don’t share so much, they might be uncomfortable with so much food sharing.” You reminded me that we don’t do things nearly enough if it’s seen as weird. Sharing should be normal and I would be proud if one day, someone spoke about my food gifts the same way you have; a gentle gift from a fellow human. Cheers!
@Heinrich Himmler lol, cheers and cannolis right back at you.
Im hispanic and I love Italian food. My parents would say I was switched at birth.
Somewhere there is an Italian family whose son craves beans and red chile.
😂😂😂💕
Here it is 🤟🏻
you'd be surprised to know that tomatoes are indigenous to the Americas
I’m Canadian and love Italian food. Italian, Thai, Mexican....anything with a bit of kick. Growing up my parents liked to make roast beef and potatoes. Not usually very adventurous. (Bland) Lol.
Mexican and Italian foods are my favorites, and I'm Polish/German/French/Irish.
My cousin is married to an Italian gent and he makes sauce how his nonna does, there’s nothing like it. Italian food is the worlds treasure.
I would say not only food, but italian culture in general, its history, art, fashion, language... everything❤
Never mess with Nonna, no matter who it is. I never got close to Italian culture and even i know that
Italian food is delicious, but you can find that in many cultures. What I love best here is holding on to traditional values. Passing down quality from generation to generation. Listen to the older people, they speak from the heart.
Absolutely. Italians' love for their food has almost become a joke, which is a shame. They have so many simple but delicious recipes.
I'm starting to learn to appreciate Indian food.
13 minutes of pure happiness, watching family tradition. Priceless
AHAHAHAHA when the grandma goes away outta nowhere and comes back 5 minutes with her old stuff to show it to us that was so relatable LMAOOOO I'm Asian but that was such a grandma thing to do
Ikr
You totally read my mind
True right. I think my dad is doing that now. He is getting old as well.
Grandmom control and put step with basilic. Was all right in her hands, this quality of generations 😍😘
hahahaahha i thought the EXACT same thing when she did that! hahahah too sweet. made me miss my granparentsso much
I'm glad they got a native italian speaker. The video feels a lot more natural. Italy is such a beautiful country and I like seeing how much more laid back the hosts seems when speaking Italian
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@@hillarysudeikis2264 this is a video on pasta sauce.
@@wge621 Jesus was nailed by romans. Romans are Italians. Italians like tomatoes. They cut up tomatoes. They cut up Jesus and Tomatoes. Therefore Jesus is a tomato and is relevant to this video
@@justinnee1572 LOL
@@hillarysudeikis2264 Jesus Christ, take a chill pill. Also believing that other religions lead to hell seems very cotrary to the things Jesus said. You might want to reflect on your religious stances.
I’m from Congo and my very traditional African grandmother and great grandmother from the karunda tribe made a similar sauce, only difference is we add garlic and thyme to it as it boils. My Grandmother had a popular restaurant in their township and I still make the sauce today and use the sauce as a base to sooo many dishes. I get so many compliments when I cook for friends. Interesting to see. Reminded me of my family ❤️
You'll make a great wife one day ! Edit: If you aren't already... if you are then hubby is lucky!
There is nothing like home cooking!! 💕😉
Hell yes. Garlic and thyme.
You really shouldn't assume someone's sexuality. Plus assuming someone will want to marry one day? Please. 🙄🙄
Fftj
Growing up I remember my grandmother and I would make the sauce exactly like this video depicted except for one difference. Before sealing the jars we would put a dollop of extra-virgin olive oil to sit on top. We would use two jars a week for Sunday sauce and it would last a whole year. Great memory. I was about eight or nine years old. Now 77.
The olive oil on top is a good tip!! I'm going to start doing this with my home made sauce jars.
@@KennyVo120 Hi Kenny .I’m glad you liked the tip. Don’t overdo it. A tablespoon of oil on the top not mixed per 1 quart jar is all you need. It seems to blend with the sweetness of the tomato and overtime lends a genuine taste nuance. Remember, real Italian cooking is simple. Resist the temptation to clutter your recipes with stuff that never belong in that recipe. That’s what Americans have done. Keep it clean and genuine and enjoy the flavors of nature.L
@@dr.leonardo9789 Italian pomposity at its finest.
@Leonard Rampello Happy 77th birthday
@@dr.leonardo9789 we are learning!
I lived in Naples for three years and the families living in the Apartments from across us would bring out their huge cauldrons and cook their tomato sauce all day. I love Italy and their traditions.
5:54 White sneakers while separating the tomatoes. I, too, like to live dangerously
Damn😂
😂😂
She searched several stores for red sneaker and couldn't find any in her size.
Haven't laughed this hard in a while thx
Just like eating a pizza slice in NYC while wearing a white Tshirt lol
I'm heading over to Duolingo to start learning Italian. What a lovely language.
I think the men sound.. uh, special let's say lol
My mum has been doing it for the last 3 or so years. She watches Italian TH-cam, movies and TV pretty comfortably and also reads the Italian news. Hardly needs subtitles anymore really only for specialist words and dialects. Still practices almost every day. English was her 2nd language from about 24 and Italian was her 3rd from about 50
It really is a beautiful, elegant, soothing language. As calming and soothing as Hebrew, or Aramaic. If you ask me, Italian is a much more beautiful and romantic language than French (from both a linguistic and personal point of view).
@@brandonriggs1788 bruh Italian is the ultimate Romance language, French sounds like someone choking on a baguette
Yeah, I can read it but not speak it. Time to get on with becoming fluent
You know, it’s kinda crazy to see how much tradition and culture can develop in 400 years. (Tomatoes were introduced to Italy in the 16th century and didn’t take off until a century later)
I actually really like the familial hierarchy of making traditional tomato sauce. It’s like… artisans training to perfect their art form. An apprentice never starts out making the complicated stuff, they do the little things, the fundamentals, over and over and over again for years until they’ve perfected it. They slowly, ever so slowly, rise through the tiers of tasks and steps, perfecting along the way, getting it just right, until eventually you’re Nonna. You’ve mastered your art, practicing every season for 60, 70, 80, maybe even 90 years or more. You know precisely how to get it right every time. Your family, centuries before you and centuries after you, are blessed by the multi-generational perfection of a single, simple, food staple.
I may not be Italian, not even fractionally, but this is the way I want my future family to make tomato sauce
Yeah same My indigenous ancestors been making bomb ass sauces with tomatoes in North America tomatoes are the best !
Your take on this is completely whack. The younger generation working on the more menial tasks is not about mastering some elusive craft that takes 80 years to develop. Have you not heard they saying about the fecal matter and the elevation change and whatnot?
Thia simple, and made with modern machines.
@@sj1roese where are you from?
@@sj1roese Proof that people online can get mad about anything (even a very nice comment about tomato sauce)... He wasn't saying it takes 80 years to develop; he was indeterminate about how long mastering it would take. He basically just said you start out doing something simple and get better the longer you do it... You gotta chill dude.
I still make my sauce like this every year and I live in the USA. I've done this since I was a little girl with my mother and aunts. I made 98 jars this year.
You are my kind of family.
What do you use to separate the skins from the tomato? This family used a machine.
@@kathydebernardo3459 I also have a machine like this. It seperates the skins and seeds from the pulp.
@@googleuser8143 What´s the name of such a machine?
@@ronp.6782 it's referred to as an "Electric Tomato press". If you search with those words you'll find many machines on the internet for purchase.
The look she gives at 12:45 at her product, you can tell she is proud of what she is doing.
That's too true. Well spotted
My maternal grandmother was born in Sicily, Italy and migrated to New York, so I was very fortunate to spend a lot of time with her in the kitchen, God rest her soul. This took me back to how she taught us to make sauce. What a wonderful memory thanks to Dina, Isabella and Federica.
You are lucky to have such a rich culinary family history from Italy to New york....we love italian cooking, especially from the small family run restaurants in Italy....the best food experiences
@@hostesswiththemostess7082 it is a blessing, though I'm nowhere near the cook she was. Family gatherings to this day are always a treat getting to sample all the goods everyone cooks when we all get together. I can't wait to do that again once all this COVID garbage is over.
You have any mob ties?
@@siddhant... yes, but they've all long since passed away, God rest their souls. All but one and he's turned his life to God in an effort for salvation.
@@playbassken talking about Michael Franzese by any chance?
Making tomato sauce was a big event here in South Italy.
My whole family would gather, and other neighbour families, and we would make the sauce with the tomatoes from our fields, over a couple days, and stock it for the whole year.
We would have a big celebration lunch all togheter when finished.
I miss my grandparents ..
It was the same in northen Italy too
@@ITALICVS The renowned Trentino Alto Adige tomatoes
@@fmls8266 Tomatoes also grow well in Trentino and you don't need to have particular types to make the sauce at home. The popular tradition of northern Italy includes tomato sauce and preserves it for the winter. Now you can go back to counting your neurons
I'm Italian, from Naples and I remember when me, my grandparents and the whole family used to make them in July every year! My happiest memories date back to those days! 😭
Stavo per commentare la stessa cosa. É stato un viaggio nei ricordi pazzesco
What happened? Why did u guys stop?
idem! what a party that day each summer...
@@katiehuynh03 I think (at least in my experience) kids grow older, they go away to study and work, there is no time... Younger generations would rather buy the sauce at the grocery shop than having the hassle of doing all that work, and so rituals passed from generation to generation just fade away without no one even noticing.
i'm from rome and we still do it every summer in august when we go to the countryside! I've been doing it for nearly 20 years now
This reminds me of making sauce with my grandma in Brooklyn in the 50's. She was from Italy and we did it all by hand. I later became an Italian chef and had a restaurant in the Bronx. I love to cook and watch people enjoy the food I make, simple and delicious just like this video. Thanks for the memories!
Sounds so interesting wow!
Italian food cooked up by a bunch of Mexicans don't sound so special to me.
@@JB-zo7ln he literally just said they are Italian.
@@JB-zo7ln he said his grandma was from italy what do you mean?
@@JB-zo7ln no hate though
Hey, What type of tomato smells the best?
*A Roma.*
You are such a prolific punster; no one will ever ketchup to you.
@@tosht2515 haha, nice one 😎
Username checks out
Ha!
I've heard some crazy dad jokes before, but this one takes the beefstake! 😜
@@awilli182 haha nice. I'll have to *Stew* on some more tomato puns 😜
many years ago I lived next door to a family from Naples. One year they showed me how to do the passata by hand with a handful of tomatoes from my own garden. I've been making it the same way ever since. No jarred or store bought sauce comes close. my mouth is watering the whole time watching this video!
I'm from Melbourne in Australia, of Italian parents, and this is exactly how we, and the large Italian community here, make our passata (every February here in the southern hemisphere).
As in this video, it is a family affair. You start out as a kid doing simple tasks, then gradually move up the ranks until you eventually work the machine. The General overseeing the whole operation is always Nonna. Supervising, advising, occasionally admonishing and having the final word on quality control & seasoning.
It's a fantastic tradition, it brings the family together, and the pasta sauce ALWAYS tastes better with home made passata!
Awww so heartwarming family gathering 💕
Diaspora amore!
And it's usually put into beer bottles.
@@gullwingstorm857 Absolutely
oh wow i am currently living holugin, cuba but were moving to america or australlia because well, raul/communist
What a blessing to grow up with generations in the kitchen learning to cook, can, and working together. Many of his did not have that experience. Count your blessings if you did, and keep that tradition going. It's golden! 💖
Back home in Abruzzo, we used to do it every year in the summer, and it was a real ritual. All the family reunited, working from early morning to late night. Each one had his role, us kids as well. Good ol' times ❤🍅🇮🇹
Love it, thanks for sharing.
Le buttije de pummador
@@ruthang9065 😆 aka "le buttije"
in calabria too
Growing tomatoes 4:35
My grandmother was born and raised in Italy and this was how she made her tomato sauce, except she called it gravy. Everything was homemade and I can still imagine the taste of her minestrone soup and raviolis, especially when she fried them. I loved listening to her speak Italian with my father. I miss you, Nona and Daddy.
no Italian calls tomato sauce gravy.
@@adelebonaccolta9619 Maybe not the Italians you know who were born in the U.S., but my grandmother, who was born and raised in Italy did and so did my Italian neighbor, who was also born and raised in Italy.
I received your answer and I need to explain why your grandmother used to call it it gravy, As newcomers from Italy and that includes me and the rest of my family, we tried very hard to assimilate to the American way, when I got Married and my mother in law called the sauce "gravy" I never corrected her, because I thought that in the US that's what it meant, but when people from Italy leave their country, they try their best to get along with others and not change their ways, so what your grandmother did was change her way to the Italian/American way. No one in Italy calls Tomato sauce "gravy", it doesn't exist. We call it Salsa.
@@adelebonaccolta9619 I grew up with it being called gravy. I don't call it that anymore since my grandmother is gone and my mother no longer cooks due to her age. I never heard my grandmother or my father and uncle, who's first language was Italian, refer to tomato sauce as salsa. All the Italians on my street from Italy, most are gone now, called it gravy. Don't know where there got it. By the way, my grandmother's name was Adelina, but she went by Adele. Very pretty name.
@@jenmarks6594 my grandmother's name was Adele and I was named after her, the relatives called her Adelina, but the proper name is Adele. In the home we called the sauce, salsa, but the proper name is Sugo, I was born and raised in Sicily (which is part of Italy) just like Long Island is part of New York, I came in the US at 12, so that part of my life I lived and went to school in Italy. If you don't believe me just ask a person that's from Italy and I guarantee they'll agree with me. You weren't born there to know better, you only learned from your grandmother and your mom which they tried to translate that word in English. Let me ask you a question, when you go to a restaurant, do you order penne or spaghetti with gravy?...
I grew up in North Greece and I remember every August making tomato sauce and peach marmalade in huge pots in the garden with my grandma! Central Northern Greece is known for its peaches and every family has peach trees there.
What a great video! I love seeing old traditions being passed down. I'm 64 now and I live in South Carolina. I remember me, my dad, my grandfather, an uncle and two cousins making homemade molasses one day using sugar cane, a mule that walked in a circle to turn the mill that we fed the cane into to extract the sugars, burning oak wood and stainless steal trays to slowly cook the syrup as it passed over the fire to cook and brown the syrup on the tray as it slowly made it's way down to the jars. That was 1974 and it's in my mind like it was yesterday.
I have grown up canning tomatoes with my great grandma, grandma, and my mom. My first job was washing the jars. My hands could fit into them the easiest. I still remember standing on a chair next to the sink washing jars while they where canning. This was one of the things that built the bond with the family. The garden had to be harvested and preserved. Those are some of my best memories
Ha-ha, the same! I was washing jars because my small hands could fit inside the jars.
Do this tomatoes have any taste? In my country only the type that is irregular in shape and big have taste, the other ones don't really taste, and definitely not the ones from import from italy, spain, turkey...
@@cristibaluta the tomatoes we can are either grown in our garden or a local farmer in the ground. Unfortunately many of the tomatoes you buy in the store are grown in water with fertilizer added to it. Tomatoes grown that way have no taste at all the are worthless.
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. The generations working together to keep their recipe alive is just the way life should be.
Reminds me of my mother teaching me her mad kitchen skills 💚
She’s passed 10 months ago now
So thank you for that trigger of happiness in memories
What were your mother's mad kitchen skills?🤔 MY mother was a great cook but she taught me NO skills. I truly regret that and I am a terrible cook-- always cooking by the seat of my pants. I have been buying organic pasta sauce at Aldi's but the price went out from 135 to 195 with inflation so I'm thinking now to get the crushed tomatoes in a can I do worry though because my current comes in a glass jar while the crushed tomatoes will come in a tin can which I know bleed some of the metal into the sauce even if you can't taste it and that cannot be good for you
Do you happen to be American, Canadian, etc.? Highly western nations have forgone many family bonds, traditions, and peacekeeping in favor of money or retirement. Their society reflects this... Spain and Italy have better social safety nets, a little less work obsession, and cohabitation, democracy, and compromise is normal. My future spouse is apalled at my family. Her culture, pre Westernization, frowned upon attitudes like "my house, my rules", and would work together in multi generational settings. It would be selfish and inconsiderate to get a dog when someone is allergic or doesn't want it, and the selfish person would be asked to work through it or reconsider. Kicking someone out is a last resort, as it hurts the family to do so. To constrast, my Canadian mother chose little French dogs over her future grandkids, and she longs to go to France, so she is tight fisted and cynical and can't wait to retire, have the house to her husband, youngest son, and dogs.
It is hard to pass a tradition when home life is selfish and turbulent, and culture rewards it as normal. I notice elders from highly Western countries are also hoarding their knowledge, eager to talk and judge, but demand pay to teach even their own children.
This one guy makes bruschetta on yt and I feel like you’d love him. You should check him out, he comes up like first when searching:)
@@larsonfamilyhouse vincenzo?
@@captaintoad7654 This is very harsh and perpetuates stereotypes of American "toxic individuality" and greed. I can assure you that Americans love their parents and children, to the same extent that non-Western people do. You will find selfish, amoral people in every culture, both Western and non-Western.
I’ll never get old of this host she always does such a good job.
I used to do this with my grandparents every year as a little kid in the early 90s, also in Puglia (Sannicandro Garganico).
Every neighbour did this on the same day and the street smelled like tomato sauce. Those were the best days of my life, just pure joy.
❤️❤️
What a beautiful family. The love and passion they have for the sauce is just heart warming.
My father was in a small polka band with two Italian guys…..I know 🥴 We are Hungarian. The Italians used to make us spaghetti dinner with homemade sauce! My mom would make them Hungarian dishes and bakery. It was fun.
I think its amazing how recipes can be passed down to generations after generation. It’s a piece of history that households have and that’s really special. This was a heartwarming video to watch overall
My grandmother made her own sauce and canned it. She lived to be 99 yrs. old. At maybe 85 or so she stopped canning it. The difference in flavor was dramatic. Loved seeing this process with the family all helping. I was the only grand kid who learned how to make ravioli. We worked together in the kitchen, many times. What a joy.
Hope you keep the tradition alive.
I really miss making sauce like this with my nonna and nonno. The entire family would get together for a week and jar sauce. This really took me back. Instead of doing this outside over a fire we did it in the basement over a gas burner. I also had the job of putting the basil in the jars. I loved feeding the machine too. I think nonna's surveilling the process and telling you you are putting too many in the machine at once is a universal thing.
We adopted this technique recently for our tomatoes. Saved us much time and generated far less waste than before. Thank you thank you, thank you for this!!! 🍅🍅🍅
Being Italian, back in the 50's my Mom had my older sister in the kitchen with her ever since she was 8 years old. My Mom taught her everything she knew about Italian cooking. My sister could duplicate every dish ! No Italian dishes, even in an Italian restaurant could ever come close to my Mom's cooking. What great memories and tastes ! Miss her so much.
No one can duplicate mom's cooking.
Lol this is what everyone says about their family's cooking. It's just bias. If you have people in your family who can cook better than any restaurant and they themselves never tried getting into the business that is silly.
@@forwardmoving8252 Better food isn't just about taste. Other factors include comfort, trusting the cook, familiar environment etc. Also opening a restaurant isn't just about knowing how to cook. It's a whole business.
8:48 I love how you can see the grandma putting more basil leaves in the jars.
I'm from Saint-Petersburg(Russia) and my mother every year makes very delicious tomato sauce from different variety of tomato, like yellow tomatoes, "heart of bull", "dames' fingers" and other local varieties of tomato. These sauces are so delicious.
That sounds wonderful! I wish I could taste it.
Geez you're very lucky!
Because theyre not growing without ground and nurtured by substitutes as we have in most countries
Tomatoes ancient varieties could be so tasteful you're lucky
Those tomatoes are delicious! Some of the best 👍
Your mother is Italian ?
So beautifully simple, tomatoes, salt, sugar, a basil leaf, and 3 generations of love.
I think i got something in my eyes.
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
If you cook your sauce from plum tomatoes, you don't need to add sugar to it, I found that I added only when I buy canned tomatoes or puree.
I loved seeing this. The love they have for family and food passed down through generations. So inspiring.
Behind the best meal,there is always the best grandma
the grandma is so excited to show her ancient sieve that she interrupts the granddaughter @ 10:53
Granddaughter: 🙂
lol you can see her die inside
It’s pretty normal in Italy, especially in the South 😂
@@witkofhf dying inside?
@@FountainOfYoot GB referencing that grandparents have that interrupting behavior about them 🤣
@Mike Airborne FFS cant even have a good conversation without it getting political.
It's weird how big of a role tomatoes play in italian cuisine and culture in general considering it's not even a native food to the country. I wonder what Italian food was before the spanish took tomatoes from mexico to europe.
Wait.... Spanish people stole stuff from every countries in the world?!
@Jelly of course different kinds of polenta since the one we mostly know now is made with mais, also coming from the Americas
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 YUP.
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 The Spanish didn't need to "steal" seeds.
What about potatoes, its also from Mexico.
I remember my grandfather making sauce every weekend. On Friday he would take the tomatoes, peeled them then pushed each one through a strainer to remove the seeds. He only used plum tomatoes. Then he would start reducing the sauce on Saturday morning then add the meat about noon. It sat on a low flame all weekend until Sunday dinner. My gramma would make the homemade ravioli. So good. I'm glad I payed attention.
This lady is so lucky to have been living in her own farm and making her own sauce with her family.
My late father grew fruits and vegetables at the back of his bike shop. Gardening was his hobby.
My neighbors do this every summer, the smells and sounds are wonderful! They are the nicest people, we share our garden vegetables, and the foods we create. They have taught me as I started gardening, many years ago.
My in-laws are from Sicilia and before I even got married, I had to help with making il sugo every August to early September. They added onions to their tomatoes and boiled the batch until the onions were clear. After straining, they would simmer the pulp with fresh basil and salt for about an hour before canning in jars. Hard work, but the pay-off...PRICELESS. A little perspective, my family alone goes through 140 to 190 thirty-two ounce jars a year. I didn’t marry an Italian (my wife was born in Toscana) I married a culture!
@final boss This is not true for canning. Preservation guides say to put hot liquid should go into hot jars and then immediately processed in boiling water for the appropriate time. Leaving food to cool first would allow bacteria to grow in the sauce. Anyone canning should look into established food preservation safety guidelines so they don't poison anyone.
@final boss we heat the jars in the oven at 200F for 15 minutes then pour the hot sauce into the jars. We also heat the self sealing lids in boiling water. Only lost about 6 jars from shattering when the sauce was poured in. Double boiling the jars afterward, sometimes. What we do is place the jars on thick cardboard and cover them with blankets. Let them cool for 2 days. The lids seal during the cool down. Haven't lost any sauce to spoilage in over 39 years this way.
@@christinemoser6702 There are many ways to get to the same healthy outcome. Clearly his method has been working for years. Cheers!
This video was a sheer delight. What a kind and informative family. I loved the whole experience. Thank you so much for bringing this to us!❤️
Thank you grandma for showing how you can sieve it without the machine! True MVP!
Wow so cool. I love how simple the process is and that they let the tomatoes peak for themselves. Love seeing multi-generational families making traditional foods!
Did they invent tomato sauce? Who cares how it is made in Italy. Filthy liberals always sucking up to the Europeans. Europeans have socialized medicine, blah, blah. Europeans make tomato sauce like this, blah, blah.
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It is amazing to see how they make it. In my hometown, Tekirdağ, Turkey, my mother, and the neighbors make it almost the same. The difference is that we cut tomatoes in half or more, depending on the size, and boil them the way they do it. After they release their juice, we sieve them through a sift the exactly the same one that belongs to the Nonna. My mom loves using it and sieving with hand. Some use the machine, but my family uses the sift and the hand. Anyway, the other difference is we add salt, sugar a little bit of sunflower oil, and hot peppers - it depends on people's taste- while it is on fire. Also, we do not add basil. Well, there are some differences, but I know that they are the same, and we use our tomato sauce for pizza, pasta, etc.
Thanks for sharing this. I didn't know this was part of Turkish culture as well as part of Italian culture.
You folks are great cooks!
This is south Europe tradition...Balkans are not excluded.
@@planed1978 I did not include or exclude any specific country and region.
@@nni9310 You are welcome. There are many common traditions between many different countries that we do not know.
In my hometown the Italian culture was very strong. Use to go visit friends and the aroma of their cooking would greet you at the front door. Could never understand mom, grandmother and even a few great grandmothers, but fascinated by their cooking.
That is so sad.
Grandma is sooooo adorable! reminds me of my grandma. Family tradition like this, is the best.
Beautiful, just beautiful. While we're no italians, I remember my parents doing tomato sauce in our backyard, every fall. Tomatoes grown in our backyard - nothing like San Marzano but still fresh, juicy and good tomatoes. I was a kid, I helped the best I could but my mother was doing all the rest. Wonderful family time. I should have kept that tradition alive, there is nothing like spending quality time with the family.
The only thing better than keeping a good tradition alive is reviving a good one that died out. Be the change etc!
man I hope the Italian family never disappears, its one of the great treasures of mankind, its comforting to see there's still such a warmth in this technologically cold world
It is such a joy to see these multiple generations of lovely Italian women putting so much love, skill, and wisdom into their craft. It reminds me of how multiple generations of Mexican-American women will get together to make tamales, especially during the holidays.
Those sauces will surely make any pasta dish taste like it came out of a five-star restaurant. Love how the process has been passed down through generations, and also seeing the changes in some of the steps as technology advances.
Claudia... Such a good host...
Bruh
Yes
Yes .. i always wait it for her..
Yo Claudia made a cheese sauce
Here: th-cam.com/video/8BviThRbwes/w-d-xo.html
Are you the parasite living inside Claudia's brain?
You know the grandma has been telling her daughter shes been putting the tomatoes in the wrong way for 40 years
That’s just so poorly timed. I’d be like “you couldn’t have said something sooner? Like nearly 40 years ago? Whatsyerproblem?!”
and the daughter ignored her like i do with my mom now when she tries to tell me how to do something
(Often times though my mom would be right...)
@@powderedtoastfacekillah734 It's still your job to continue to ignore.
This is why home made Italian food is so magical. Every generation changes the family recipe slightly so in this case, it’s a family history in a jar.
@Repent to Jesus Christ Repent to Jesus Christ jusus H Christ man!! Enough already!
You can see the love in their eyes for what these awesome women are doing!
I’m so lucky that my mom makes all of our spaghetti sauce with homegrown tomatoes and vegetables. Thank you mama❤️
No need to have measuring spoons levelled off for the salt and sugar, when grandma eyes the amount it's exact and perfect. period.
yeah and when she croaks (or she loses her sense of taste due to Covid) they won't know how much she put in. hope they are weighing the jars before and after so they have a record of what she did.
@@ssl3546 It’s all about trial and error. They’ll eyeball it and will figure it out pretty quickly.
@@ssl3546 "passed away", not croaked.. thats a butchered language not used by civil people.. you operate the internet so your a civil people..
@@ironmanandspidyroc person?
Four! i counted four...Seems hardly enough when you look at the size of that bowl but what do i know, im dutch
I'm not Italian but I feel such an affinity with the culture and the language. This was an absolute joy to watch, thank you!!!
tomatoes are not italian culture, italians have no connection to the origins of tomatoes. most europeans only adopted other peoples foods in just the last couple hundred years.
@@krono5el She didn't say that tomatoes have their origins in Italy but tomatoes have been part of Italian culture, food, for more than several hundred years.
So you're statement is completely nonsensical.
You cannot think of Italian cuisine without talking of tomato sauce, which is unique to Italy.
@@krono5el There is no culture that hasn't been influenced by some degree by other surrounding cultures, people and conquerors.
Beautiful, I can feel the pride in each Generation.
Keep growing Ladies!
Love the old school way of making sauce. It's very special especially when you grew up Italian American. You remember your Nonna, the smells, her hands, etc... and you continue making sauce the same way because you know great Italian cooking comes from quality ingredients.
the girl is so gentle and kind with her grandma :'''') made me miss my grandma so much, loved this video
Blessed to stay with an italian family who had their own red and white wine, olives, olive oil, a garden from which most of the ingredients for the dishes came - wonderful!
Thank you so much for shooting this and showing to the world. The part about "making the sauce is a bonding of 3 generations" is brilliant. Love from India
It's cool to see the youngest daughter of the family also sharing the passion. It's pretty similar here in America (in NY at least) with Italian Americans taking incredible pride in their heritage and trying to learn and pass it down to their children.
Amazing that a humble fruit from South America adds so much history to Italian cuisine!
Thanks to the Spaniards for invading/conquering/governing Southern Italy, Naples and Sicily. Tomatoes are awesome.
This is so beautiful. Three generations making traditional homemade sauce, bellissimo!
They've become taller each generation.
Not really. Here in the UK kids have become shorter. It blows my mind as to why people here born in the 1950s and before are sooo much taller as they had a lower standard of living. Perhaps the quality of food has gone down??
@@iseegoodandbad6758 More gravity in the UK now.
@@iseegoodandbad6758 diet, seed oils in practically all packaged food, pasteurization, less meat intake, sedentary lifestyle, etc. is killing Western populations.
@@iseegoodandbad6758 never have I noticed this or anyone I’ve seen point it out, old people are usually so short compared to later generations 😂
A lot of tall people in Italy nowadays
This video made remember of my beloved mother. Mamma, i really hated to do this job, but I thank you anyway for the precious hours spent together.
I lived in Italy for 3 years and my first Son was born there too. I miss the people and the food!!! What a awesome country...absolutely beautiful!!
Oh my goodness. This is what I've been looking for. Growing up I love to see the Del Monte spaghetti sauce commercial made from tomatoes. This one is the best. I saw all the process and it's all natural. It's my dream to eat authentic Italian food in Italy. Love, from the Philippines 🇵🇭
I'm Italian, my grandfather had some tomatoes plants and my grandma made sauce, not so many bottles like Isabella did :) but enough for family use: it is very common in Italy, sometimes we also buy tomatoes to make a good home made sauce to be used during the cold season to cook spaghetti or pasta. Tomatoes need sun sun sun sun and water, love tomato sauce!
This is where we should go again - handmade soulfood, worshipping la familia and the earth and the love one could feel between this lovely women. Awesome.
The Grandmother reminds me so much of mine....at 81, she appears younger than my dear grandma at 68 when she passed. So nice to see three generations together.
I need to start living even a little bit off the land. I feel like I can grow a friggin tomato.
You certainly can!
they are quite sensitive to draught and too much sun. But overall, I bet you can do it!
Growing tomatoes are easy. I have tomatoes coming up all by themselves just from seeds that dropped on the ground from the year before. Just protect them from animals groundhogs raccoons they love them.
You can totally do it! I grow mounds of them! So fun and delicious! I have been growing my own food for 22 years- the best!
1 plus gallon a day
Pure beauty: the food, the scenery, the ladies the history.
Italians are masters of art, from food to design and automations..🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🍝🍝🍝
I DISLIKE ITALY FOOD IT GROSS AND GARBAGE JAPAN MAKES BETTER FOOD SAME WITH CHINA AND EVEN SPANSIH COUNTRY MAKES BETTER FOOD I DONT SEE HOW YOU LIKE THIS GARBAGE ITALY FOOD ITS GROSS COMPARE TO SPANISH FOOD
The grandma is so cute.I want to give her a hug. They had a harder time back then
I love how no matter where you are in the world real traditional cooking is always done outside.
Well you need a big area, and inside many Italian homes, it's small....so, they have no choice in the matter.
I love that Italians keep everything old school. Don't fix what's not broken, and keep tradition alive.
How refreshing to see 3 generations doing this together. 😍👏
It's the simple things like this shared by the family that is missing in today's society and sadly we are all the worse off for It.
The annual making of passata is a wonderful Italian tradition in my family. It’s indeed a labour of love, but so well worth the time and effort. 🇮🇹🇨🇦
That is beautiful, three generations creating memories.
Claudia: How many tomatoes are going in the pot?
Isabella: Yes, yes.
si si 🤝
She said 10 kilos
@@danputignano9665 She said 13 kilos. 10 are the bottles
u are german right? ))))
@@WatchYourSicks Ja.
This was an awesome video. As a little girl, I remember my grandfather jarring his tomato sauce. Not the same quantity that these ladies did. He used Mason jars that had the sealing lids. After the cooling of the jars, he would then date them so he rotated the jars using the older then the newer ones. Memories. 😊
For 10 years I cut the lawn of Mrs.Bonfiglio. Her husband died when she was 50 and she didn't die until her 80's and everyday s
Since her husband passed she wore black.
This makes you appreciate the traditional ways we each have in our own country,home or anywhere we go in this world. The love and pride that you see in the three generations we are all watching and enjoying is a beautiful thing and makes you appreciate family traditions.
These are the type of girls that are worth their weight in gold. Dedicated to family and putting love into the things they do for the family
I went to my friend's place in Rome in 1999, she cooked up a quick dish of spaghetti and a simple tomato sauce in a few minutes, fresh tomatoes, that's about it, one of the best spaghetti dishes ever
8:54 granny in the back adding more basil after they just got done saying they only add one hahaha
She's probably been doing that for years and just doesn't have the heart to tell her granddaughter that it's actually supposed to be two leaves in each jar. :)
Special orders are handled by granny
It’s amazing how older generations when they cook or prepare food they don’t need measurements. They’re taste and experience is all they need. Funny as heck though!!!!
@@tinman9341 They had to cook every single day, for more than one person, with no premade ingredients. It's just practice.
@@peerlessneedle4272 you aren’t kidding. My grandma had 16 children to care for. Her food was amazing!!!!!
I wish this grandma more joyful longer life doing what makes her happy.
Huge smile watching grandma, mama and daughter cooking together!
I make hot sauce with my grandmother still im 28 and I absolutely loved this, its nice seeing tradition from all cultures being passed down, simply beautiful.
This was amazing to see a family's tradition carry on.
Even more so since it deals with food, which all cultures can get behind on.
If you look into how europe acquired tomatoes its a dark and evil story of total death and destruction to the people who created the tomato. so that culture is steeped in pure evil.
This video just made me cry a lot! It's like watching my grandma there. Such a treasure! thank you for sharing this