Do you like tomato sauce?

If you need tomato sauce for anything, rather than getting it out of a can, I suggest you look at Mario Batali's Basic Tomato Sauce Recipe and make that. It takes some time, but man, it's good stuff.

But don't be dumb like me. "Crushed by hand," when it comes to tomatoes, means to really crush the hell out of those things. I was a little bit more tender with them, and I ended up needing to use my stick blender to get the consistency I needed. Still tastes good.