My family and friends think I am crazy.  (Stop laughing!  This time its serious...)

In an attempt to get my family eating healthier, I decided to make my own spaghetti sauce.  As in, from tomatoes.  As in, no cans involved. 

I have been met with everything from raised eyebrows, to laughter, to an incredulous "WHY?".

Let me explain why this is causing such a ruckus.  I don't know how to cook anything from scratch.  Well, except banana nut bread that my grandmother taught me about 20 years ago.  Which I haven't made in almost that long.  I am all about speed and convience.  The faster, the better.  Have it prepackaged?  GREAT!  Heat and eat?  OH YEAH!  I don't have a clue what to do with fresh veggies.  Give me a can anyday!

Don't get me wrong.  I love to cook.  I really do.  I just HATE clean up.  Washing dishes is the bane of my existance.  I dread that activity more than anything else in this world.  (No, I don't have a dishwasher.  How can someone build apartment buildings without dishwashers??)  So, I try to avoid mess as much as humanly possible.

That is why everyone I know thinks I am nuts.  (Well, except vegiemama, who gave me pointers.  )

I have learned a few lessons through this experience:

1)  10 tomatoes makes a lot less sauce than I ever imagined.  Enough for 1 meal, just as vegiemama said.  It just sure seemed like a lot of tomatoes!

2)  Little handy choppers are not devised to pulverize tomatoes.  My family hates chunky sauce, which is another reason I wanted to make my own.  If this turns out to be a common practice, I will have to look into a blender or food processor!  The poor thing had juices leaking down the side and would only chop about 2 tomato pieces at a time.  It took ages to chop all those tomatoes!

3)  Making homemade spaghetti sauce from scratch makes a BIG mess.  sigh.  I am currently turning my back on the waiting mess in my kitchen.  I keep hoping the dishes fairy will have them all finished by the time I finish typing this.  Let me look over my shoulder...nope.  She isn't here yet.  Maybe I'd better visit some more blogs to give her time to get here....

I am hoping that my sauce turns out delicious.  I really want us to like this.  I would love to make a large batch and can it for later use.  (of course, I haven't got a clue how to can anything.  That would be a whole other adventure....)

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