1stop Organic Gardening

Hi there,

here’s the pics from my sauce making. Usually I’d use bigger tomatoes, but my saucing tomatoes didn’t do so well this year. I didn’t have room to plant them in the improved raised bed, so they ended up in very sandy soil.

So I picked about 70% of my ripe Tommy Toes and turned them into a batch of sauce.

Then with a wave from my magic wand (oh, alright I’ll give you the recipe), they turned into 7 x 700ml bottles of beautiful sauce. It’s so rewarding to grow something in my organic garden well, then being able to turn it into healthy produce that will last for the rest of the year – or more (if it doesn’t get devoured in the short term).

Tomato Sauce

Place 1 cup water, 2 cups vinegar, 1 cup sugar, 1.5 Tablespoons salt in a large pan. Heat until sugar dissolves, then bring to gentle boil.

Add:-

4.5kg tomatoes, sliced

.5kg onions, diced

.5kg cooking apples, diced

2 Tablespoons fresh or dried herbs (I use a mix of oregano, thyme, parsley and basil)

Simmer for 2 hours or so, stirring ever 15 mins. Use a Bamix or blender and bottle while hot into sterilized bottles.

And then you’ll end up with…..

Great eh?

Happy Organic Gardening,

Julie

 

Filed under: Recipes on January 28th, 2008