So I have heard from a lot of people in the area that their tomato plants have not done well. Now I honestly have almost completely neglected the garden. I shamefully have to admit that most of it is covered in morning glory. I don't know if you remember my earlier post about my tomato plants I purchased from Costco and planted in my garden. Well I have to say they have just been abundantly producing tomatoes for us, despite the neglect. They have been the most delicious tomatoes I have had in years. A week ago I took two huge bowls of tomatoes and blanched them (with Lydia's help). Then I took the blanched tomatoes and made a huge pot of home made spaghetti sauce. It was the best spaghetti sauce that I have had in the longest time. I had enough leftover to freeze three dinners for the future. I highly recommend making sauce using fresh garden tomatoes. Nothing compares.
I had another bowl full of
tomatoes on Friday and I decided to try to make home made pizza sauce. Instead of blanching the
tomatoes I just cut them up (skins and all) and cooked them down with a little bit of oil, onion and garlic. I had already cut up about 2/3 of the
tomatoes before I took the above picture. I have more
tomatoes growing out in my garden right now!! It is crazy how many
tomatoes have been produced from those 4 plants.
I let it all simmer and this is what I ended up with. A thick, yummy sauce. 
I also made my pizza dough from scratch. I actually use a home made dinner roll recipe to make the crust. The crust ends up being a little softer than a usual pizza but it tastes so good. 
The dough I made was enough to make two pizza crusts. If you want the recipe at all let me know. It is pretty easy to make. 
One pizza was pepperoni. 
The second was Hawaiian. With the home made sauce and dough the pizza was honestly the best we have probably ever had. We all loved it!! We even ate the rest of it for dinner the next night. There is nothing like using the food that you have grown out of your very own garden. It is an amazing thing. You should try it next year! Even if you don't have an area to have a full garden maybe you could just have a few potted plants. It is well worth it.
We spent the rest of the evening watching the classic movie "Watcher in the Woods". I enjoyed watching Lydia get scared and hold onto me. Does that make me a mean mom?
