Roasted Tomato Sauce

Hello Friends,

I shared this post in October of 2021. With tomato season fast approaching us here in Wisconsin I thought I would share it again. This is an easy way to make tomato sauce to enjoy this winter when you need a taste of late summer. 

 ♥

Carla

 

 

Roasted Tomato Sauce

 

The following recipe is from Frances Palmer. I did a book review of her book ~  Life in the Studio ~ Inspiration and Lessons on Creativity by Frances Palmer

I am going to share her Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe, it is wonderful!

Roasted Tomato Sauce

3 pounds of tomatoes

5 garlic cloves

1/4 cup olive oil

1 tablespoon of salt

1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Mixed fresh herbs, such as rosemary, thyme and basil

 Preheat oven to 400° F

Spread the tomatoes and garlic in a small roasting pan or shallow ovenproof dish.

Pour olive oil over them, then sprinkle with the salt and red pepper flakes.

Scatter the herbs over the top. Roast for 1 ½ to 2 hours, or until the tomatoes begin to collapse and the tops are a nice blackened brown. Let the tomatoes cool until they are at room temperature.

Place food mill on top of large bowl. Scrape everything from the roasting pan into the mill. Puree the mixture. Pour into freezer containers.

 On a cold January pull out of the freezer to use in beef stew, pizza, pasta and soups.

And the taste of summer will be back warming you.

 

 

A Special Book and a Peek at the Fish

 

This little gift was given to me from a dear blog friend, Welcome to Lavender Dreams, her message to me in the inside cover was the following..

"I hope you'll take this little book and add lots of your own touches to it to make it special."

And so I did. 

Starting in 2019 I asked friends and family to sign my little book after they enjoyed a garden tour.

 

I enjoy looking back at what friends and family have wrote.

The above note is from our son Sam. I chuckle at what he said in 2020, "The garden looks very nice and I like the direction it's going in!"

 

 Our son Atticus wrote in 2021. "The flowers were fun."

 

 There are times I forget to have our guests write in the book. I will write a memory of the day. This entry was a day my parents came for a visit. The butterflies were all over flying along and feeding on the flowers. It was a magical tour.

 

My sister enjoyed her visit. I had her taste many of the herbs in the garden. Her note, "I enjoyed tasting the herbs and flowers! But Watch Out! Some don't taste so good! Ha!"

 

 

Special little friends write in the book too.

I enjoy looking back at what my dear friends and family share each garden season.

Having friends and family over for a garden tea and tour is one of my highlights of the summer. 

I had a request that I try to take a photo of the fish, including the Monster of the Deep. The fish seem to be camera shy! I dumped a bunch of food in the water in hopes to have them come up and snap a few photos. You can spy three of the orange, but that ol' Monster of the Deep will not sit still to have his photo taken.

 

♥ 

Carla

 

When You Need a Little Lift!

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly.

 

 

The only way to find happiness in the grind of life is by faith. A faith - filled life means all the difference in how we view everything around us. It affects our attitudes toward people, toward circumstances, toward ourselves. Only then do our feet become swift to do what is right. Walk by faith, trusting God to renew your attitude.

 

 

It is easy to underestimate the significance of one. It is easy to underestimate the value of you: your vote, your convictions, your determination to say, "I stand against this." 

Does it matter if we get involved or not? It matters greatly - it matters to your character!