Productive Wednesday!

I sometimes waste a lot of time on my days off..I sleep in late, blog stalk, watch TV, etc. But this week, I decided I wanted/needed to be a bit more productive than that. I cleaned the apartment on Tuesday (with the exception of putting my folded clothes away..Curt's biggest pet peeve), and it felt great to get that done!

I decided Tues that I wanted to make Pizza Sauce, from scratch. So that was my Wednesday project. (Not sure why I decided to do the messy project the day after cleaning the house..wrong order there!) It took a long time to blanch, peel, and chop tomatoes, and chop onions, and mince garlic, but the result was fantastic! We will now have homemade pizza sauce for the next year! I'm not usually the most domestic person, so I felt great about doing something I've never done before. Totally worth it! We had meatball subs last night to test out the pizza sauce and it was delish! I even got extra ambitious and made Chocolate Chip Zucchini bread which was also very good! I would say I had a productive Wednesday! (Even though I left a heap of dishes in the sink...that will have to be Friday's project :)

Recipe:

Pizza Sauce

6 T. Olive oil

2 c. finely chopped onion

2 T. finely chopped garlic

8 c. tomatoes (Blanch, de-skin, chop small)

12 oz can tomato paste

2 T. oregano

2 t. basil

2 bay leaves

3 T sugar

3 t. salt

Pepper to taste

Bring to boil. Simmer hour (or longer!) Remove bay leaves. Put in containers and freeze.

1 pint=2 pizzas. Yield 6-7 cups.