On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 07:43:43 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 10:41:01 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2019-02-01 10:22 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 10:04:21 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> On 2019-02-01 6:26 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >>> On Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 4:32:39 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> You never know when a troop of seamen are going to show up for dinner.
>> >>>> Most recipes designed for families call for only a couple spoonfuls of
>> >>>> tomato paste.
>> >>>
>> >>> We use more than 8 oz for a batch of spaghetti sauce. We've got a couple
>> >>> gallons of it waiting to be frozen, which is a task for tomorrow.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Paste or sauce? Tomato paste is most often sold in 5.5 oz cans.
>> >
>> > Both. 6 28-oz cans of tomato sauce, 1 12-ounce can of tomato paste,
>> > 1 6-ounce can of tomato paste, a bottle of wine, and some other stuff.
>>
>>
>> Okay... you are talking about preparing a lot of pasta sauce in advance.
>> I usually make about a quart at a time, enough for one meal for two and
>> enough leftovers for a second meal.
>
>It freezes so beautifully and the amount of effort for 2 gallons
>compared to 1 quart is not much more, we don't see any reason not
>to go big. Then we have umpteen meals where all we have to do is
>cook pasta.
>
>Cindy Hamilton


I take it in a slightly different direction.

We like ground beef in both red sauce and chili, so I start with the
basics of sauteed onion, browned meet, canned tomatoes, tomato paste,
garlic, salt & pepper, then after about an hour, I split the batch
(which might actually be a bit more than 2 gals to start, as I use my
largest pot for this first step, the pot we call "the baby boiler"),
add my favorite Italian seasonings to one part, and my favorite chili
seasonings to the other and continue simmering.

Each pot gets a tad more tailored as it cooks, but when I'm done,
again, for not much more work than making small batches or just one
recipe, I have several meals worth of pasta sauce and chili.