I’m sharing a series of recipes in my Twice as Tasty column for the Flathead Beacon that revolve around grilled tomatoes: first last week’s Grilled Tomato Bloody Mary Mix, continuing this week with a freezable pizza sauce, and next week with a recipe that can be paired with one or both.

We fill a good portion of a large hoop house with tomato plants each year. When the harvested crop starts to pile up in boxes, one of my favorite ways to deal with the overload is to grill the tomatoes. If I’m too busy to process them further, I stockpile the juice and solids separately in freezer-safe containers until I have time to turn them into sauce and more.

In a pizza sauce, grilled tomato solids have a deep, smoky flavor enhanced by grilled onion and garlic, as well as fresh homegrown herbs. I find it most useful to freeze the finished sauce in silicone ice trays that make cubes of various sizes, from a couple of tablespoons to 1-cup portions.

Learn more about grilling tomatoes and get the complete recipe for Grilled Tomato Pizza Sauce in my column.

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With cubes of pizza sauce in the freezer, you’re set for all sorts of meals all winter. Pull it out after you’ve made Sourdough Pizza Dough to pair with garlic knots, use to line calzones, and of course spread on baked or grilled pizzas. It doubles as a flavorful pasta sauce, whether tossed on its own with noodles or enhanced with mushrooms, spinach or kale, shrimp, and other fresh or frozen ingredients.

This pizza sauce is just one of the toppings I freeze in cubes to later thaw and spread as the base for homemade pizza. Here are just a few other recipes on the blog that make delicious pizza sauces. You can find more in the recipe index.

• Garden-Fresh Basil Pesto
• Spring Pesto with Pea Shoots
• Grilled Sweet Pepper Sauce
• Grilled Eggplant Baba Ghanoush
• Chermoula

You can learn more about choosing grilling vegetables in this blog post.

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