i face the heat and stand over a hot stove and make up enough sauce to last through the fall, and then spend my winter staring at cans and doing my best. so first, i get some water boiling, and have an ice bath on hand, and i make an x in the skin of each tomato with a knife.
then i drop the tomatoes into the boiling water for just a minute - the skin wrinkles up quickly and that's when you know they're ready to peel. quickly into the ice water bath for another minute.
and then they're pretty easy to peel by hand. i peeled them right into a 