Farmer's Tomato Sauce
("Just Cook-it-Down")
Turn those split, overripe and less-than-perfect looking heirloom tomatoes from your garden into this
tasty sauce. Some people say splits have the most flavor, anyway, and since this recipe takes a lot of
beaten up tomatoes, you can save the heirloom beauties for the salad.
Ingredients (serves 4+):
a lot of Heirloom Tomatoes
plum tomatoes
garlic
walla walla onions (or whatever you have)
bay leaf
salt
whatever fresh herbs you have (basil, parsley, thyme, etc.)
2 tbsp. olive oil
To make sauce:
Heat up oil in a large soup pot, throw in garlic + onion, cook until slightly browned. Then, throw in those tomatoes,
bay leaf, salt and herbs and cook it down. Add plum tomatoes to thicken the sauce. This takes hours, so start early and
just cook it down 'til dinner!
