Out to the garden at 8 PM for the freshest ingredients. Too hot to pick during the day. The sauce takes about 6 hours to make, and I’ll be drawing late anyway.
Most of the tomatoes are a mystery miniature hybrid that sprang up and tastes of a cross between a Roma and an heirloom.
Add an entire bottle of red wine, fresh picked Egyptian Walking Onion, basil, oregano, garlic, cucumber. Cucumber adds fiber, but does not affect the taste. If you don’t like the seeds, run the sauce through a blender after it has cooled. Liberal amount of pepper and salt. If too acid, add sugar.
Smells good!
I let it cook down until very thick. Freezes well.
That looks awesome. A couple of weeks ago, I made a similar sauce from the loot I raided out of my mom’s garden: fresh onion, tomatoes, oregano, thyme, basil, and rosemary. Didn’t have six hours, so I cut each tomato in half; didn’t have red wine, so I used Guinness. It got pronounced Not Bad.
The cucumber’s a brilliant addition I’ll have to try — most likely this weekend, when I go back to get more tomatoes. Why my mom’s garden has eight tomato plants for two people, I’m not sure… but I’m not complaining, either.
Egyptian Walking Onions… why do triffids spring to mind?
A fascinating plant… could you use the onion greens for fiber as well?
Sure, they taste like chives, so I usually use them on taters, but mom also braids them to hang and dry. I’m not using the pods, I will plant them for next year’s crop.
I started growing Egyptian onions this year, in part because they are cool plants, but because the entire plants is edible.
I cooked until 2 AM and had to call it a night. The pot went into the fridge, and now it’s back out, cooking some more.
I’m on my way…
LOL! It is now 3 PM and that sauce is still on the stove. Needs another hour to cook down completely.
Does “too hot to pick” mean “it would have an adverse effect on the produce” or “you’re not getting ME out there till after dark?”
It means we’ve had brutally hot weather, and that has an adverse effect on the picker.
Ideally, I ought to pick in the early morning.
We keep trying to grew a balcony garden but for many reasons the plans never work out right. About the only thing we end up with in the end is tomatos. Your farm must be a great place for good noms