homemade spaghetti sauce-type of tomato?

[Smocked]

I have my very first garden this year and it's thriving and now we have tomatoes coming like crazy.

I know traditionally tomato sauces are made with roma, but I grew all beefsteak Well, I made my first ever batch with my tomatoes and was not really impressed and kind of bummed that I used my homegrown tomatoes.

Can I make a decent sauce with these tomatoes? Was is my recipe that is to blame (please tell me it is ) My gran swears that a spaghetti sauce cannot be made without bacon and this will fix it. Is it true?

[vulturemom]

You can make sauce out of any kind of tomato (though I wouldn't recomend using cherry or other small tomatoes) Can you tell me what is wrong with the sauce. Is it the flavor, is it too runny ect...? I have never once in my life had spagetti sauce with bacon so I don't know if that would fix it but, you would need to use a pressure canner if you added meat.

Let me look around online and find the recipe that I used last year. The flavor was great but, I didn't cook it down quite enough so it is a bit runny (my fault not the recipes)

[vulturemom]

I think this is the recipe that I used http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/can_03/...tti_sauce.html

I used peppers not celery and did not add mushrooms. I purreed all my veggie (including tomatoes) in my food processor because it is easyier and my family doesn't like chunky sauce. I used a mixture of tomatoes just what ever happened to be ripe that day. I used red, yellow orange, black and green tomatoes. Ofthe three batches that I made only ones color looked a little off.

Like I said above I didn't cook it down long enough so it is thin but I have found that if I only cook the noodles until they are almost done drain and then add the sauce that the noodle soak up the extra liquad and the starch in the noodle tickens the sauce a little more so it turns out just right.

[mamadelbosque]

Last year I just canned all my tomatoes as diced tomatoes so that I could use them for different stuff (salsa, spaghetti sauce, lasagna, fra diavolo, mexican rice, etc). When I go to make tomato sauce I just dump one thing of canned diced tomatoes in with 1 can/1 cup of tomato paste, sauted onions & garlic & spices (parsley, basil, oregano, a lil sugar & vinegar) and cook it all together for about 30 minutes... My diced canned tomatoes were all different varieties. Just whatever we had from our garden & whatever was cheap from the farmers market/roadside stands!!