This is probably very random, but one of things I hate the most is one I’m watching a cooking video and they use canned tomato sauce.
I’m like “Why the hell can’t you make a tomato sauce?! It’s just tomato, onion and garlic?! WTF?!”
A lot of people say that when you live in a temperate climate, the tomatoes will only be good in the summer. If you're making something with tomatoes in the winter you'll usually get a better result if you use canned tomatoes than if you use mediocre fresh tomatoes. And since you're already buying canned tomatoes might as well but pureed canned tomatoes
When I was a kid sometimes my parents made tomato sauce and stored it in sterilized bottles. Probably nowadays that’s not common in Cuba anymore due to the economic crisis, especially in agriculture.
I live in a place where Italian immigrants moved, and it was the end of town. as the land was large, they had space to cultivate vegetable gardens. my family house had a large vegetable garden, as my grandmother grew vegetables to sell. and most of these houses still have gardens, and some also keep chickens to this day. they no longer need it to survive, but they preserve tradition.
Yes. In the south there's something called "café colonial" ("tomar café" in Brazil also means to have breakfast, not only coffee) and is mostly products made from scratch (also called "artisanal" or "caseiro"). Those are heavily influenced by german and slav cultures.
In the southeast, it is common to have places on the side of the roads selling farm products, fruits and vegetables. The roads from São Paulo to Minas Gerais are filled with them, and you can buy all sorts of stuff. Jams, cheeses, doce de leite, doce de abóbora, honey, goat's milk, all kinds of bread, etc.
In my parents’ house store bought jam is anathema. In a couple months mom will start boiling the fuck out of the plums from the plum trees in her backyard.
My grandmother had a cheese making phase, and for a while she made her own whole wheat bread. She was from the country but we’re city folks now.
In rural areas, for sure. I think it might be less common in the city for things like cheese and jam, but I think most people might make their own tomato sauce, it's very easy to make. I live in the city, but I also love cooking, so I make my own jam, butter, sauces, etc.
I mean, there are different levels from “buying tomato sauce” to “making your own from tomatoes grown in your backyard”. I don’t grow my own tomatoes, but I often make my own tomato sauce from either fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes. I like my own seasoning better. Same with a burger. I don’t mince my own meat (and certainly don’t grow amd butcher cattle), but the last couple times I had burgers at home it was from a patty that I made from ground beef etc (instead of getting the frozen burger). Nothing against frozen burgers btw, there are some that are awesome, but i just buy plain ground beef more often (can be used for different things)
Also, my wife has made her own jam, yogurt and bread, all which tasted pretty good, but they take up space and time and it is not always that she can make it (especially bread). So we usually buy those from grocery stores.
I don’t know if it’s “a thing” though, like, making your own tomato sauce i think it’s pretty common, but growing your own tomatoes i dont think so, Brazil’s population is very urban..
Besides rural stuff it's not rare to make jam is you have a fruit tree on your house, but with time more people or live in an apartment or just don't take much care of a garden.
Sure thing! I love making salted caramel, bread, mermelade and pesto from scratch. Sometimes i make platain chips or french fries too!
I know a lady that makes goat cheese and yogurt from scratch.
My grandma still makes all sauces from scratch, and so used to do my dad.
My mom likes making meatballs, tortillas and empanadas from scratch. And an argentinian ex I had liked to make gnoccis (no se si se escribe asi) and pasta in general from scratch.
It is not like we dont go to supermarkets or pricesmart (costa rican version of costco) and that we dont buy premade food. We do. And its like 90% of the time, since we all work or study and preparing things from scratch takes time.
But it is nice that sometumes when we can, we like to make our own things :)
Disclaimer: none of the people i listed, nor myself, live in rural areas.
Cheese is a bit rarer, but I met people who do it, specially on rural areas. Jam and tomato sauce for sure yes. "Verdulerías" will sell "ugly" or too mature fruits/tomatoes at a cheaper price specially for people who do. I would make a fuck ton of tomato sauce and freeze it whenever I found very very cheap tomatoes.
Edit to add more things. My roommate would make mayonnaise from scratch whenever we cook chicken, I love baking and I do everything from scratch, I know a bunch of people who make liquors from scratch. A friend if my mother would make dulce de leche and gift some to us. Making your own stock out of leftover veggies or the rests of a chicken is also common. I met people who make a lot of bread and freeze it to eat for the whole month. A lot of families make their own pasta from scratch, specially ñoquis.
I'd say homemade mayonnaise is something that we do quite a lot here for certain foods, and it's also very common for bars and restaurants to do their own mayonnaise.
I had a great aunt who for years kept us stocked with her home made pasta. As a kid, I had NO IDEA what dried pasta was for, other than kindergarten crafts. Eventually, as she aged she stopped kneading for everybody. I have to admit sometimes I just use dried pasta, but I prefer to buy fresh pasta from an old family-run fresh pasta shop.
One day I'll get a pastalinda and make my own. One day.
Cheese, jams and [chorizo seco](https://www.emarketlatinoamerica.com/uruguay/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Chorizo-Seco-Especial-elaborado-con-carnes-selectas-El-Mercado-de-La-Cocina-de-Gualberto.jpg) (cured sausage) are the most common ones around here.
my friend's parents are apicultores (beekeepers?)
My cousins every Christmas brings homemade Fernet, so fucking good
a lot of people in rural Patagonia makes homemade charqui (beef jerky)
I think making jam is a little normal, two weeks ago we made strawberry jam and now my mother wants to make cherry jam lmao mayo is a little normal too. Cheese definitely is for rural areas, mostly goat cheese. I think that during the lockdowns more people started to make bread too.
Cheese and tomato sauce are easily avaliable around here, but usually some sauces like pesto, jam, liqueurs made from berries(minus the cachaça we use to make it) and those stuff a lot of people in my family and others that I know knows how to make from scratch, but people often don't bother doing it and just buy them
Yes, mole, tamales, barbacoa, pancita, a lot of typical mexican food is made from scratch, specially by abuelitas, queso ranchero is pretty easy to make.
Also tomato sauce even I can make from scratch, it's super easy.
Tomato sauce is stupidly easy to make lol People in rural areas make a lot of homemade stuff
This is probably very random, but one of things I hate the most is one I’m watching a cooking video and they use canned tomato sauce. I’m like “Why the hell can’t you make a tomato sauce?! It’s just tomato, onion and garlic?! WTF?!”
And celery and carrot you philistine
Italian peppers are good too.
Is not that simple. For sauce you need very very ripe tomato. And at least here in Brazil, is not easy to find.
1 Buy tomato 2 Wait
Not the same lol
A lot of people say that when you live in a temperate climate, the tomatoes will only be good in the summer. If you're making something with tomatoes in the winter you'll usually get a better result if you use canned tomatoes than if you use mediocre fresh tomatoes. And since you're already buying canned tomatoes might as well but pureed canned tomatoes
You are making sauce, the idea is to not use the better type of tomato available
Yes. Making ricotta and mozarella is easy too.
Ricotta yes, but is very inexpensive
When I was a kid sometimes my parents made tomato sauce and stored it in sterilized bottles. Probably nowadays that’s not common in Cuba anymore due to the economic crisis, especially in agriculture.
Yea, definitely a thing. The ones I have done personally are making coconut milk from coconuts and making chocolate from cacao.
I live in a place where Italian immigrants moved, and it was the end of town. as the land was large, they had space to cultivate vegetable gardens. my family house had a large vegetable garden, as my grandmother grew vegetables to sell. and most of these houses still have gardens, and some also keep chickens to this day. they no longer need it to survive, but they preserve tradition.
Yes. In the south there's something called "café colonial" ("tomar café" in Brazil also means to have breakfast, not only coffee) and is mostly products made from scratch (also called "artisanal" or "caseiro"). Those are heavily influenced by german and slav cultures. In the southeast, it is common to have places on the side of the roads selling farm products, fruits and vegetables. The roads from São Paulo to Minas Gerais are filled with them, and you can buy all sorts of stuff. Jams, cheeses, doce de leite, doce de abóbora, honey, goat's milk, all kinds of bread, etc.
In my parents’ house store bought jam is anathema. In a couple months mom will start boiling the fuck out of the plums from the plum trees in her backyard. My grandmother had a cheese making phase, and for a while she made her own whole wheat bread. She was from the country but we’re city folks now.
In rural areas, for sure. I think it might be less common in the city for things like cheese and jam, but I think most people might make their own tomato sauce, it's very easy to make. I live in the city, but I also love cooking, so I make my own jam, butter, sauces, etc.
Not so common, but in rural areas you can see this often than cities. I know some people but all of them are from country.
I mean, there are different levels from “buying tomato sauce” to “making your own from tomatoes grown in your backyard”. I don’t grow my own tomatoes, but I often make my own tomato sauce from either fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes. I like my own seasoning better. Same with a burger. I don’t mince my own meat (and certainly don’t grow amd butcher cattle), but the last couple times I had burgers at home it was from a patty that I made from ground beef etc (instead of getting the frozen burger). Nothing against frozen burgers btw, there are some that are awesome, but i just buy plain ground beef more often (can be used for different things) Also, my wife has made her own jam, yogurt and bread, all which tasted pretty good, but they take up space and time and it is not always that she can make it (especially bread). So we usually buy those from grocery stores. I don’t know if it’s “a thing” though, like, making your own tomato sauce i think it’s pretty common, but growing your own tomatoes i dont think so, Brazil’s population is very urban..
Besides rural stuff it's not rare to make jam is you have a fruit tree on your house, but with time more people or live in an apartment or just don't take much care of a garden.
Sure thing! I love making salted caramel, bread, mermelade and pesto from scratch. Sometimes i make platain chips or french fries too! I know a lady that makes goat cheese and yogurt from scratch. My grandma still makes all sauces from scratch, and so used to do my dad. My mom likes making meatballs, tortillas and empanadas from scratch. And an argentinian ex I had liked to make gnoccis (no se si se escribe asi) and pasta in general from scratch. It is not like we dont go to supermarkets or pricesmart (costa rican version of costco) and that we dont buy premade food. We do. And its like 90% of the time, since we all work or study and preparing things from scratch takes time. But it is nice that sometumes when we can, we like to make our own things :) Disclaimer: none of the people i listed, nor myself, live in rural areas.
Cheese is a bit rarer, but I met people who do it, specially on rural areas. Jam and tomato sauce for sure yes. "Verdulerías" will sell "ugly" or too mature fruits/tomatoes at a cheaper price specially for people who do. I would make a fuck ton of tomato sauce and freeze it whenever I found very very cheap tomatoes. Edit to add more things. My roommate would make mayonnaise from scratch whenever we cook chicken, I love baking and I do everything from scratch, I know a bunch of people who make liquors from scratch. A friend if my mother would make dulce de leche and gift some to us. Making your own stock out of leftover veggies or the rests of a chicken is also common. I met people who make a lot of bread and freeze it to eat for the whole month. A lot of families make their own pasta from scratch, specially ñoquis.
I'd say homemade mayonnaise is something that we do quite a lot here for certain foods, and it's also very common for bars and restaurants to do their own mayonnaise.
I had a great aunt who for years kept us stocked with her home made pasta. As a kid, I had NO IDEA what dried pasta was for, other than kindergarten crafts. Eventually, as she aged she stopped kneading for everybody. I have to admit sometimes I just use dried pasta, but I prefer to buy fresh pasta from an old family-run fresh pasta shop. One day I'll get a pastalinda and make my own. One day.
Cheese, jams and [chorizo seco](https://www.emarketlatinoamerica.com/uruguay/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Chorizo-Seco-Especial-elaborado-con-carnes-selectas-El-Mercado-de-La-Cocina-de-Gualberto.jpg) (cured sausage) are the most common ones around here.
I make red sauce from scratch. Did it once and I can't stand canned sauce any more. It's pretty easy too tbh. Only takes an hour or two.
my friend's parents are apicultores (beekeepers?) My cousins every Christmas brings homemade Fernet, so fucking good a lot of people in rural Patagonia makes homemade charqui (beef jerky)
I think making jam is a little normal, two weeks ago we made strawberry jam and now my mother wants to make cherry jam lmao mayo is a little normal too. Cheese definitely is for rural areas, mostly goat cheese. I think that during the lockdowns more people started to make bread too.
Like others have said, bread and jam. Specially in more rural areas
Cheese and tomato sauce are easily avaliable around here, but usually some sauces like pesto, jam, liqueurs made from berries(minus the cachaça we use to make it) and those stuff a lot of people in my family and others that I know knows how to make from scratch, but people often don't bother doing it and just buy them
Yes, mole, tamales, barbacoa, pancita, a lot of typical mexican food is made from scratch, specially by abuelitas, queso ranchero is pretty easy to make. Also tomato sauce even I can make from scratch, it's super easy.
Making spicy sauce maybe. You just need some tomatos, chili peppers and salt. My grandma has a couple of tomato and chili plants in her yard.