? about homemade tomato sauce

[Ambishop19]

My dad gave me some tomatoes from his garden and I'm hoping to make tomato sauce. The only problem is that all of the recipes I am finding call for a sieve to remove the seeds. I don't have one of those. I saw recipes for tomato sauce where you only remove the skin and not the seeds, because you puree the tomatoes after roasting them. Couldn't I just do the same thing to make tomato sauce?

I'm pretty new to the traditional food way of life (still trying to move more and more into it), so I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks for your help.

[provocativa]

you can do this, and puree in the food processor. however, the seeds are bitter and will change the taste of the finished sauce a bit. when i have time, i prefer to halve the tomatoes, and flick the seeds and juice into my fine mesh strainer over the pot, letting the juice drip into the pot as i work, and tossing the halved tomatoes in a bowl next to me (moving the strainer aside to toss in a tomato every time gets annoying). often i do this procedure while sitting at the playground. i press the juice into the pot, toss the seeds, and then cook down the tomatoes and juice. then i puree after cooking to deal with the skins and missed seeds. the sauce is sweeter this way. but when i don't have time for that, the sauce is still good.

[Learning_Mum]

Would it work if you put the seeds into a piece of muslin and then squeezed the juice out into the pot?

[Llyra]

I never remove the seeds. I make tomato sauce to eat fresh, and also to can and to freeze, and I've never had trouble with the seeds altering the taste.

I do peel. I blanch the tomatoes to loosen the skins, then peel and chop and cook, then I puree and then continue cooking to thicken the sauce.