Kaley’s Cherry Tomato Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2 to 4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      35 min

Appears in
Cooking with the Firehouse Chef: The Food that Fuels New York’s Bravest

By Keith Young

Published 2005

  • About

Growing up, my siblings and I were always so lucky that our firefighter chef of a dad cooked amazing meals for us. Our dad would always say, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This tomato sauce is my take on my dad’s sauce and all he taught me. When he was sick with cancer and couldn’t cook like he used to, I would make this sauce for him and my siblings. He loved it, and now every time I make it, I picture the day that I fir