This is a serious question.
Okay. This is from Meg E on Facebook.
Serious question - this is a serious question,
not just a frivolous question.
This is serious.
Is there a difference between tomato puree and tomato sauce?
Well, first of all, it's tomato puree.
Is there a difference between tomato puree
There's a difference and tomato sauce?
Between tomato puree, tomato sauce,
Is there a difference between tomato puree and puree?
and tomato passata.
Tomato passata
is made from fresh ripe tomatoes that are ground
and put into a bottle.
Tomato sauce
in America at least,
tomato sauce refers to a product
that sometimes has sugar added to it.
It's very smooth and sweet
and just tomato puree is just that.
It's cooked product that's just pureed tomato.
So tomato puree is the thin version
of canned, whole, or crushed tomatoes.
Passata is made from raw ripe tomatoes versus cooked
and sauce usually connotes it's a sweeter product.
Like, you know, people would buy tomato sauce
a lot for sloppy Joe's for instance, that kind of thing.
But really it's about the brands you like
and reading your label and just picking a product
that you enjoy the flavor of and it matches your diet.
And if you're looking to have no added sugar
just be careful of that.
With some tomato products there is.
So buyer, just be aware, that's all.
This is from a Khar188 on Instagram for me.
John we've heard you talk about your boat.
When did you learn to drive one?
A long time ago.
Well, yeah, I mean, the boat has a throttle.
It's got a steering wheel, it's got another lever
over here that's forward backwards and neutral
and then it's got a horn.
So I can be like, Hey, move, get out of the way.
Cause it doesn't have brakes.
You're so dramatic.
He's a very safe driver.
I am
He does, when he gets into the middle of the lake,
he does little figure eights and stuff for me
if there's no one around.
We have an older hacker craft which is a wooden boat
that's made here on Lake George in the Adirondack region.
And it does not back up basically.
So John has become quite good at maneuvering a boat
that can't really back up too well
when when he's docking, it's pretty cool.
Yeah. You got to kind of just go in reverse
and then into neutral and drift and then back
into reverse and then neutral and drift and kind of
as long as you keep it slow.
Okay, it's an hour long show, babe.
This is from Heidi K on Facebook.
John, tell us more about your boat driving.
No
No, I'm just kidding.
Have you and John ever gone foraging for mushrooms
like morels, chicken of the woods, chanterelles, et cetera?
You may have gone without me and I'm unaware of it
but I've never foraged for anything.
John doesn't enjoy the foraging.
I garden, I like gardening.
John does like gardening,
but just wandering around in the woods,
like John likes to be in control
of the plants around him.
I want to know which is very funny.
where the plants are
and then I can find them and pick them.
And my husband is a hypochondriacal.
There's no way he would trust anything that I foraged
in the woods and brought back here.
I don't want to pick a wrong mushroom
and then like we'll like get poisoned or something.
We have a lovely friends and purveyors that
send us ready to use mushrooms.
We don't have the mushroom foraging skill set.
I would go, I would, by the way
but John is an excellent gardener I have to point out.
And that was one of the many reasons
I fell in love with him.
He had a little rooftop garden
and I thought that's adorable.
He has like a two room apartment
and yet he has all of these beautiful tomatoes
and basil and some lovely prezzemolo, some parsley.
That's, that's my guy.
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