On Tuesday evening, Jason and I made two giant batches of tomato sauce in the Instant Pot (both from Serious Eats, with only minor tweaks. I didn't have fresh basil, and left out the fish sauce), with the only difference that one batch used whole canned tomatoes that I quickly threw in the blender, while the other used a can of diced and a can of crushed. Jason has this weird thing where he didn't want to dirty up the blender, so wants me to use already chopped tomatoes? I don't know why that would be important, but...anyway, they actually came out very different. Batch 1, with the crushed tomatoes, burnt a little, and came out very dark---it tasted to me a bit like the kind of sauce you get in a not-great Italian restaurant. Batch 2 came out a lot more like my regular sauce. I can't imagine why they were so different, and honestly, I didn't love either of them. In the end, we combined them and no real conclusions were drawn.
Which brings me to tonight's dinner: ravioli with tomato sauce. It was fine (except I had to eat in a hurry and mine was a little rubbery from re-heating cause it was Ultimate). I think I would stick with my regular method since it took nearly an hour in the IP. Or try a different recipe.
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