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One of five containers of tomatoes from my overzealous tomatoes

Who Knows the Greatest Tomato Sauce Recipe?

This summer in the northeast was not as warm as previous summers.  Consequently, my tomato plants that love heat did not thrive until late summer.  All the sudden out of nowhere, my tomato plants went from lanky awkward teenagers to big strong adults capable of bearing a ton of fruit.  So what happened next?  Did I have a late summer of leisure to pick tomatoes as they ripened?  You guessed it.   These crazy looking tomatoes decided to ripen all at the same time.

This is my first year of growing a large vegetable garden.  I spent the entire summer trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with bugs, seedlings failing to thrive, and not knowing what my plants were supposed to look like.  I did not have time to catch my breath or to stop to think what was I going to do with all the food I grew? 

Well my tomato reckoning day came, and here I was the proud mama of a ton of funny looking tomatoes.  I grew heirloom Cherokee purple tomatoes as well as an heirloom tomato that looks like a pumpkin, beefsteak tomatoes and large cherry tomatoes. 

 What was I going to do with all these tomatoes?  Tomato sauce!  How hard can that be?  I have tried to make it before with store bought tomatoes but it came out tinny tasting.    This time would be different.  I had tomatoes that were destined for tomatoes sauce– not those “not so meaty” tomatoes from the store.  Time was of the essence since my tomatoes were a little too ripe. 

 Off I dashed to my friend, Google, to look for the 5 stars ultimate tomato sauce recipe to show off my prized tomatoes.  How else was I going to flaunt “look what I made…” 

Believe it or not, I could not find one I like and settled on a roasted tomatoes recipe from Epicurean.com and Too Many Chefs.  In my haste I did not bother to read most of the directions and winged it.  Isn’t that what most great chef do I reasoned?  This is basically my recipe.  A word of caution.  This recipe might make you gasp or say “oh my” while reading the recipe from all you amazing cooks. You will have your chances at the end.