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I have RSI from sieving 10 litres of tomato pasta sauce (that is an orange B&Q bucket full)

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Gingerbear · 09/09/2006 16:46

We have heaps of tomatoes, so I made a vat of pasta sauce:

take:

half a tonne of ripe tomatoes, de-skinned (that took an hour!) + chopped,
5 cloves of garlic, finely chopped,
1 dessertspoon of sugar,
salt and pepper,

fry garlic in olive oil, add tomatoes, sugar and seasoning and bring to boil, turn to simmer and reduce to half the volume.
Allow to cool, then sieve in batches to remove the seeds.

It tastes heavenly! I grew plum tomatoes this year as well as tiger striped and cherry toms.

I add some chopped basil or pesto or chilli before serving with pasta.

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Tommy · 09/09/2006 16:47

sounds yum - hope the RSI hasn't put you of eating it

Greensleeves · 09/09/2006 16:47
Envy
trinityshiftingherleatheryarse · 09/09/2006 16:49

where are you going to store it all

sounds yummy

Gingerbear · 09/09/2006 16:49

would you like me to bottle some and send it to you Greeny?

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Gingerbear · 09/09/2006 16:51

In the B&Q bucket with a lid on

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Greensleeves · 09/09/2006 16:53

Tempting, Gingerbear, but I am hoping past hope that I'll be able to make my own....my tomatoes are REALLY late this year, they seem to have taken for ever to flower, we are only just this week starting to see the odd ripe one! 10 litres of pasta sauce though, that is an impressive tomato crop - well done!!

Gingerbear · 09/09/2006 16:58

we still have some green tomatoes, were yours outside or greenhouse?
Mine are outside, in pots (hate growbags) against a south facing wall - I think that is the key, along with my patented spent aquarium water fertilizer (next door neighbour swears by it - lots of phosphate and nitrate apparently)

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iota · 09/09/2006 17:18

I have 100s of ripe tomatoes - I'm too scared to go out and pick them as I already have 2 bowlfuls in teh house.

I feel a tomato sauce session coming on

thanks GB

Greensleeves · 09/09/2006 17:20

They're outside (although we are in Devon so nice weather), I haven't used anything on them , they are just in a compost/garden soil mix in big tin baths outside my back door. They are starting to produce lots of lovely green tomatoes now, and the first few are ripe....and there are still flowers, so we are hoping.....

iota · 09/09/2006 17:23

GS - I feed mine weekly with tomato food and have chopped off all the side shoots and quite a few leaves ( on my mother's advice).

We ahve had red ones for a bout a month now - they are outside against a west-facing fence

iota · 09/09/2006 17:24

oh and I cut the tops off after 4 or 5 trusses had flowered on each plant

nikkie · 09/09/2006 20:20

How long will it last in jars?

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