Home Made Tomato Sauce

So something really amazing happened today. I MADE TOMATO SAUCE FROM REAL LIVE TOMATOES HOLY MOLY. This is seriously something that I have wanted to do my entire life and I am so proud of myself. It feels awesome. I am working on so many projects this week that I wasn't sure I would actually get to the tomatoes before they went bad. And I did it!!! (on a separate note, I also saw the oscar mayer wiener hot dog truck this week and basically died of joy). So what a bucket list week baby! I'm so excited about this tomato sauce for several reasons.

1. bucket list win
2. healthy healthy healthy!
3. The only thing that's not as awesome as I thought is the fact that it comes in big batches and thus, is a bit more expensive than I would have thought. For the tomatoes I got (probably 2 or 3 meals) it was about 7 dollars, which, I guess really isn't too expensive. Kind of like a Costco situation.

Roma tomatoes skinned and seeded

1 tsp salt

2tsp pepper

2 tsp marjoram

2 tsp basil

2 tsp oregano

1 tbsp. Lemon juice

1 small onion

small handfull of mushrooms

3 tbsp minced garlic

olive oil

1. skin and de-seed the tomatoes, not as fun as it sounds
2. blend tomatoes.
3. Saute chopped onion and diced mushrooms with garlic in olive oil.
4. Add everything to the crock pot. I'm turning it on high at 11:15 so we'll see what happens. I'm thinking I maybe shouldn't have blended it before I cooked it up whatever. David doesn't like chunky sauce so ce la vi.
5. So boil them down as much as you can with your patience.
6. I then blended the sauce as much as I could (about like ½ of it so that I still had pieces of tomato in it.
7. DELICIOUS DELICIOUS DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!

I made a big ol thing of this, but it wasn't cheap, it was just delicious, My favorite thing about this sauce was that I knew exactly what was in it because I PUT IT THERE!!!