Fresh Spaghetti Sauce

We started last week to once again process our tomatoes into either spaghetti sauce or just canned tomatoes. If I have enough left over I will make pizza sauce. But I rarely make pizza any more. This is a month later than we usually get it going, because of the lack of rain in August.


Since Dan had to work, that left Aaron & Andrew to pick the tomatoes. But they made some fun out of it.

They got 5 of these 5 gallon buckets & 3 small buckets full of tomatoes for me to cut up.

It's an all day process for us just to get them juiced.
After I clean & cut them in half, Aaron ran them through the Victorio Strainer, which take off the skin & gets rid of the seeds.

He dumps the juice into a big 20 quart pot & 2 of the biggest cooking pot that we have to cook down as much of the juice as possible making it thicker. I cook it down until it's just in this 20 qt. pot. then I add the sugar & spices, and ummmm, is it oh so good!

Then I can 7 quart jars at a time to put up for the year. Last year I had 54 jars made; only 4 are left. With 4 big guys in the house, we go through 2 jars each meal.

This is a good start! God is so good isn't He?!