Real Tomato Sauce

We all know about the decline of the poor store tomato.
How it is picked not ripe, gassed, transported many miles and sits on the grocery bin, priced high
for a lousy taste or no taste at all. The "vine-ripened" tomato being sold, isn't any better, its just
priced higher.
This unfresh taste-less flavor is also true for the store bought tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce and/or
marinara sauce.
Real tomato sauce is a competely different "animal" than what is sold in stores.
Trust me, you'll never serve that store stuff to your best friends ever again.

Everyone should experience making a good tomato sauce using fresh just-picked
sun-ripened tomatoes.

Tomato Sauce

Olive oil
onion, diced
garlic, diced
cucumber (peeled and deseeded) and/or carrot, diced or grated
6 tomatoes, peeled
fresh herbs, oregano and basil, chopped fine



Wash and peel tomatoes and slice into sauce pan. (I use a crock pot) (no sauce sticking and you don't have to pay any attention to the sauce while it cooks)     Add all ingredients to pot.
Simmer for about an hour or until the sauce begins to thicken and the vegetables are soft.
The sauce can be pureed with a food mill, if a smooth texture is preferred.
Taste and correct seasoning with salt or pepper or a pinch of sugar.

This sauce taste nothing like the store bought variety, just as the home-grown tomato,
honestly ripened on the vine by the heat of the summer sun, will probably never be
like the variety sold in stores.


Fresh Tomato Sauce
on ravioli

Brandywine tomatoes
are the best