Dinner : Pizza with Garden Tomato Sauce

We always try to grow tomatoes but this year it seems the weather was perfect for them and we had an abundance. They mostly ripened at the same time, too, and we didn't want them to go to waste. We thought we would try to make pizza/tomato sauce from them.

This isn't all of them, but still a good sampling of what we got. They are some variety of heirloom tomatoes so they don't always turn insanely red everywhere. It kind of helped give a nice zing to the sauce too by some of them having some green spots.


The first thing we did was remove the skin. It's super simple to do. Boil the tomatoes then run them under cold water and you will easily be able to peal the skins off.


We actually used the same blend of spices as we have used to make tomato sauce from plain canned sauce. We used twelve tomatoes and it seemed to be the equivalent to the amount we buy in canned plain sauce. After we added the spices and allowed the mixture to cook down we were concerned about there being so many lumps in it. Neither of us are a fan of chunks of tomatoes in our sauce and we weren't sure how the kids would react to chunks either. My boyfriend decided to throw it all in the blender and it worked great!


We tasted it a few times while it was cooking and while it wasn't identical to making it from canned sauce it was still really good tasting. We spread it out on the pizza and had enough to make two pizzas one night and we had plenty left over and it's now sealed in some plastic dish in the fridge for the next time we made pizza.

We didn't have any fresh mozzarella around so we just used some of the shredded and bagged stuff. The next time we make it we will definitely get some fresh mozzarella. This tasted good, but we've been so spoiled by using fresh cheese so often!