Tomato, Tomatoe

My husband and I are big fans of Bountiful Baskets, and love to feed our family with fresh fruits and vegetables at such a minimal cost. Our favorite part, is actually the fact that you never know what you're getting, and you always get something a little "odd". Our bravery to try new foods has increased so much at our house since we started participated in bountiful baskets!

Last week, we bought 25 pounds of tomatoes to make into salsa, or spaghetti sauce (we go through both like crazy!) Thankfully, because of the holiday this week (MLK Jr. Day) my hubby had the day off, which meant I become the slave driver.

We set off to make spaghetti sauce, but I wanted the most easiest way possible. We found this recipe for tomato sauce from the Ball Canning website, which looked really easy because:
1. You used a blender.
2. You didn't HAVE to take the skins off.
3. We had all the ingredients (for the most part, already on hand)

For the recipe click here Basil-Tomato Sauce

I did some researching, and to get the tomato sauce thicker, you just simmer it longer, and could not strain the skins (which is what we chose to do). We also didn't have fresh Basil, but a lot of wonderful dried spices like Rosemary, Basil, Parsley, Chives, Oregano, Italian Seasoning, ect, that I threw in the mix instead!

We ended up with 7 jars full, plus 1/2 a gallon size baggie that we were keeping out to use that evening! It turned out DELICIOUS! We were so excited with our results! It was a little runny, compared  to store bought spaghetti sauce, and we like to add a lot of veggies to our spaghetti so we added peppers, onions, and other vegetables to it as we cook it (we keep a bag of frozen chopped up onions and peppers to toss into any recipe we may need). Our little one's favorite food (that grown ups will eat too) is Spaghetti, so we are excited to have some yummy sauce on hand!