Homemade Tomato Sauce, Freezing Tomatoes, and Freezing Tomato Sauce

Over the summer, I was getting several pounds of tomatoes every week for a couple of  months. I love tomatoes, but there are only so many that my family can eat. I froze two, one-gallon freezer bags full of them, dated the bags, and tucked them into my freezer. Freezing tomatoes is very easy. All you…

The Feast of Seven Fishes

Now that the kids in my family have all grown up, Christmas Eve means staying up late without parents, watching our favorite Christmas movies, drinking eggnog, and wrapping presents. It also means that my mom makes a spread of crab legs, shrimp, a whitefish and lox bagel tray, and my grandmother’s clam dip. Maybe some scallops….