Thursday, October 30, 2008

Homemade Tomato Sauce

Someone needs to tell the tomatoes that it's almost November. My dad's 4 tomato plants are still producing even though they are far from pretty. But they're still edible. And if you just can't imagine dining on bruschetta or fresh tomato and mozzarella salad in October then go ahead and freeze up a batch of homemade tomato sauce before you pull up those tomato plants for good.

10 large tomatoes
olive oil
4 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp dried Italian seasoning

Score with an X and drop into boiling water. When the skins start to peel back, place tomatoes into an ice bath.


Remove tomatoes from ice bath and peel off the skins.



Squeeze out the juice and seeds.





Put into a blender and add sauteed garlic. Blend till smooth. Pour into a large pot and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to simmer. After 1 hour, add salt, sugar and Italian seasoning. Simmer for another hour uncovered. Makes about 3 cups of sauce.





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22 comments:

  1. Looks delicious! If I lived closer I would invite myself over for dinner!

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  2. Could you ship me some? How do you find the time?

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  3. i absolutely love tomatoes, once we put up 85 quarts, nowadays i can't get tomatoes to mature in the garden, so they end up freezing early and i have tried green tomatoes but you can just eat so many of them and then your done...but i have to say if you know your toMato, then you just KNOW HOW TO LIVE

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  4. Looks great! Looking forward to tasting it! :o)

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  5. My tomato plants are still going too (kind of). Thanks for the yummy recipe, I love fresh homemade tomato sauce.

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  6. OMG, that sounds WONDERFUL!!

    I can almost smell them now. I love fresh tomatoes!

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  7. YUM YUM YUM!! You can just bottle me up some of that yummy looking sauce and send it my way! Wait you'll be in my neck of the woods this weekend just bring me some :)

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  8. YUMMY! I was thinking of making my own sauce!

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  9. Inspiring! (Especially to those of us who buy jarred sauce in bulk...)

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  10. looks good makes me feel bad about my jar sauce.

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  11. Wait, why does Judy get to taste it?

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  12. Totally stealing this recipe too! Yum. I loved tomato-based things.

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  13. Yummy! I going to have to try this!

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  14. I never knew how to make fresh real live tomato sauce. I guess because I only make mine semi-homemade. Outta tomato sauce. Sounds good though.

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  15. What a nice way to warm up this cold day for me. Your recipe sounds delicious! I'll fantasize about being in Italy and eating this!

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  16. What do you do with the juice?

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