sugarless tomato sauce

 We've been bringing in so many tomatoes from the garden this summer so along with regular tomato soup, salads, sandwiches etc. I've managed to make two batches of sauce from all the excess tomatoes. Not all my tomatoes are perfect, some have grubs, blossom end rot or sun burnt patches but all these little imperfections get cut off so that we barely waste a single one. They all taste delicious in sauce

 I'm rarely short of a helper to wash them. The only pay they expect is a few cherry tomatoes to munch on while their hard at work

 Recipe-
9 cups of pureed tomatoes
1/4 cup olive oil
1 small onion
2 tsp garlic
1 cup vinegar
3/4 cup honey
handful of basil

*cook olive oil, onion and garlic on medium until onion is tender
* add pureed tomatoes, bring to the boil
*simmer until tomatoes have reduced to about 3/4 or the original volume (a few hours)
*add vinegar, honey and basil
*cook a further 20 mins or so. Turn the heat up and reduce a bit more if it seems too thin
*Puree again or leave chunky

Bottle and freeze or preserve (can)

Yum!

 Here's three of the 4 bottles that I made. they are 450ml bottles filled about 3/4 way (they needed room for expansion as I froze them)

And I bet you'd like to see the beautiful healthy plants that my abundance of tomatoes are coming from...

Yep seriously! These plants have looked terrible for weeks and I keep expecting them to die but they are tough and just keep making more fruit!