Smoked tomato sauce

Some times making a good seafood dish requires more then just seafood. having the right components to help "build" that tastey little morsel is just as important. Tonite I made a nice Smoked tomato sauce. Whats that you ask, well it is just that, sauce made from smoked tomatos. Here is how it works.

Take 10 roma tomatos and core the stem end and score the other end with a little x, this is to help you when you peel them. To peel them bring a pot of water to boil and blanche the tomatos for 16 seconds then shock them in a bath of ice water. This will loosen the skins so you can peel them by hand, if they have a little green on them use a paring knife to help peel them by pulling the skin back at the scored end.
After that cut them in half and seed them removing all the seeds. (seeds ad unwanted tannin making the sauce a little bitter) Place them in a non reactive pan like pyrex or stainless steel. Put them into the smoker with enough chips for about 40 minutes. When done take them out and dice them and get ready to make your sauce.

Sauce

1tbs olive oil
One small yellow onion diced fine
4 cloves garlic chopped fine
tomatos diced
1 tbs dried baisil (more if you like)
1 tbs balsalmic vinegar
1 cup water
1 cup chicken stock or boullion (adjust amount of salt for boullion)
1/4 cup sherry
Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper.

In a sauce pan saute the onion and garlic in the oil until translucent
add sherry and reduce then add tomato and water and reduce to a simmer
allow  the tomatos to cook until they start to break down a little and then add the vinegar, cook 5 minutes more and add the rest of the ingeidents, simmer on low for about 45 minutes stirring occasionaly.  Blend it with a submersible blender or a regular one and return to heat, adjust S&P to taste. This is a good sauce to do cippino, seafood pizzas, and pastas. Or whatever. BBQ some oysters and put a spoonful of the sauce on it. What ever works for you. You can play with it a little and whatever herbs you like tyme, oreagano, whatever twists your nipples.
 

Sounds tasty Cowboy- But just one question.  I have never heard of a "submersible blender" before.  What the heck is it???

pete

A submersible (spelling) is a hand held blender that is put into a drink or liquid and blended. also called a burr-mixer or immersion blender. It looks like a small blender blade on a stick with a motor at the handle.

AKA boat motor at my house. Handy device!

Would that be a minkota or motoguide, good for making barrels of margarettas

Matt