Tomato's

Our neighbors moved this past weekend, the ones from Alabama that knew what we meant we when talked about kudzu or boiled peanuts, the ones that understood "y'all and bless your heart".
We miss them but we have been staying busy taking care of the garden that they had planted.

Yesterday I made tomato sauce:

I used a recipe from this cook book that my mom gave me over the weekend. It looks ancient but it is made by Southern Living so it is a good one. 

Here are the tomato's just some of the tomato's from the garden.
There are also roma tomato's and grape tomato's. Good thing I like tomato's. 

So you cut an X over the part of the tomato where the stem was.
Drop into boiling water for a few seconds and then into ice water. 

Into the hot tub it goes. 

It is hard to tell but you can see how the skin split open.
They were so easy to peel. 

All my peeled tomato's 

Here they are... peeled, cored (thank to Gram for the garnishing kit) and chopped. 

Into the pot with all the yummy spices, garlic and onions to simmer for 2 hours. 

After all the simmering you are supposed to put the mixture through a food mill... I don't have one so I chopped it all up in the food processor and put the mixture through a fine mesh strainer then back to the stove top to thicken.
This is the sauce I ended up with... I think I would have yielded more if I would have had a food mill. 

The sauce was delicious and we had it on our spaghetti for dinner last night.

Thanks to the Gardner Family  for all the fun times and now for all of the tomato's.