Homemade Tomato Sauce

[snowangel]

This will only work with plum tomatoes, the eating kind being too watery to be worth cooking up (except for desperate end-of-season dregs). When I pick them, if I don't have any immediate sauce plans, I just put them straight into the freezer - do not pass GO, do not collect 200 dollars, do not do nothin' fancy - adding the day's pickings to the cumulative harvest of the season, which lives in a large ziploc bag (or two... or three...) labeled with the year.

As my most wonderful grandmother and her other farm-wife friends will attest, the deep freeze liberated them more than the vote. Yes, right into the freezer they went. No longer was my grandmother standing over a hot, steamy stove on a hot steamy night canning tomatoes once they could afford a deep freeze.

I don't necessarily bother with the ziplock bags. I just use those plastic bags from the market and Target that seem to breed on their own. Since the sharpie market is velcroed to the freezer, it is easy to remember to label them.