OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

> In article >,
> ~patches~ > wrote:
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>>OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
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>>>Considering the food snob thread, I thought I'd throw in this one. <G>
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>>>IMHO most canned/jarred sauces are just plain boring!
>>>I usually prefer to use either my own version from fresh peeled roma
>>>tomotoes chopped and cooked down with my own mix of flavorings, herbs
>>>and spices, or a shortcut of a mix of chopped tomatoes and canned tomato
>>>paste with the above additions.
>>
>>I'll be the first to say I don't have a lot of experience with
>>commercially canned tomato sauce other than the few times I
>>miscalculated and didn't bring enough homecanned sauce camping. We used
>>to make a lot of pie irons over the campfire so it was easy to
>>miscalculate how hungry the kids would be. We still make pie irons on
>>the outdoor firepit and sometimes if we stay overnight boating but
>>nowhere near as much as when we camped.
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> What is a pie iron?
> I'm not familiar with that term.

Oh sorry I should have explained. A pie iron is generally cast iron, 2
part type sandwich maker you use on a wood fire. You spray the parts
with cooking oil then put a piece of bread on a load it up. Our
favourites were the pizza ones with tomato sauce and toppings followed
by apple pie filling and cheese but you can get really creative with the
fillings. You can get single or double pie irons. We have the doubles.