Fresh Tomato Sauce

Have you ever seen anything so pretty? 

Upon arriving here, we discovered that tomato sauce is much more expensive than in the States, but that tomatoes are much cheaper. For example, there are 66 pounds of tomato in those boxes up there and that cost us $37.Yes, you read that right. Please wipe the drool before preceding... its only getting better, friends!

My husband has always wanted to try making his own tomato sauce... and now he had his chance. 

His recipe used lots of tomatoes, mixed with olive oil, fresh thyme, fresh basil, fresh parsley, garlic, salt, pepper and balsamic vinegar.

Brian did the measuring and the blending... I chopped tomatoes and poured the finished product into clean water bottles. That we then stacked in the freezer.

We made 20.5 jars of fresh tomato sauce, using mostly all fresh ingredients with just a couple of dried herbs. And they are all stacked in our freezer waiting for dinners! We like it for pizza, spaghetti, lasagna... just about anything you use spaghetti sauce to create. And it is yummy!