Pasta Sauce for Dummies

I don't like tomatoes.
I love pasta sauce, salsa.... yeah, ketchup.  But unless I'm really lazy or really starving I pick the tomato off of my party sub, (Monical's) salad, drive-thru chicken sandwich even though I told the lady "no tomato" (those were the old days; no more drive-thrus for me), etc.

That really needs to change.  Tomatoes are easy to buy and easy to grow and easy to cook (come to find out) and are really pretty. 

My Day 1 shopping list include roma tomatoes.  I thought I would FORCE myself to cook with them- if I buy them, I can't waste them!

Well, it worked.  I, at nearly 33 years of age, just learned how to blanch, peel, seed, and cook tomatoes.  I added:

1/2 chopped onion
garlic powder (I had a jar of minced garlic on hand too but it is packed in phosphoric acid- fail)
sea salt
basil
oregano
ground black pepper
I simmered and smelled it for about 30 minutes.

My house smells like Prego!  The girls even came downstairs to ask if I was making a pizza (if only).  I tasted it- it is really yummy!  Next time I will experiment with adding a little honey- it could use brown sugar but no, not if honey will work.

The real test: the big guy's opinion.  He gave it a sniff and thinks it smells like Prego, too.  Can't ask for better than that. 

It is only enough for one mason jar, and is going in the fridge for dinner some time next week.  I would post a picture, but I'd have to hang myself afterwards.  Food picture posts are one of my many pet peeves ;)