It’s raining tomatoes, hallelujah!

It’s the end of August. The time of year when we reap the benefits of the summer’s labors. After planting, watering, weeding, and mulching, it is time to harvest the tomatoes. A few tomatoes ripen at a time in the mid summer, but as August comes to a close more and more are ready each and every day.

Once you have gotten your fill of the tasty red globes and the tomatoes are sitting on the kitchen counter, what do you do with them? If they sit too long they will rot. All of the hard work will be wasted. My tip this week for you is to freeze the tomatoes for making tomato sauce after all the tomato plants have stopped producing for the season.

Roma tomatoes work best for tomato sauce, due to their low moisture content, but you can use any tomatoes in sauce. I wash and core the tomatoes and put them in freezer bags as they pile up on my counter. Once the season is over, I will make up a batch of tomato sauce so I can enjoy the fruits of my labor all winter.

Check back in a month for my tomato sauce recipe. For now, enjoy those ripe juicy tomatoes in your sandwiches and salads.