Fresh Tomatoes

Having a few red ripe tomatoes
I wanted to cook some up for freezing sauce.

None good enough to give away
because of the chip munk bites taken out of them.
So after cleaning and coring and skinning and seeding.
And after about four hours of simmering and tasting
and adjusting the seasonings and tasting again.

I had a pot of sauce ready to put in freezer bags.
Now this may sound easy enough.
Not!.
You need six hands to keep the bag open,
Laddle the sauce and of course everything turns tomato red.

Once I put the bags in my freezer on the wire grate,
Stupidly not realizing the bags would freeze
the sauce around the wire grate.
Try and get frozen bags of tomato sauce out
wrapped around the wire grates is disturbing.

Oh by the way, here's my recipe for tomato sauce.

In the Largest pot you got.
Some olive oil.
Fresh crushed garlic
Some minced onion
chopped celery
chopped carrot
chopped green pepper

Add the cut up tomatoes
simmer four four hours.

The seasonings are fresh and dried
basil
oregano
salt
granulated sugar
black pepper
cayanne pepper
and what ever else you want.

simmer some more
then my secret ingredient
some red wine,It makes people say
"what makes this taste so good?".

So after cleaning up the mess of tomato red,
Everywhere.
We got ten pints of sauce to look forward to
this coming frozen winter.

I love the smell of fresh tomatoes in the morning...