Homemade Pasta Sauce

Don't compare homemade pasta sauce with the supermarket version. I have no idea what they put in the factory to make the sauce. In contrast, I use tree ripen and home grown tomatoes for my pasta sauce. "Blanch" is the process of removing the tomato skin by soaking the tomatoes in boiling water. I don't blanch my tomatoes. It is too time consuming and tomato skin actually tastes good!

 

Here is my recipe. Crush all tomatoes in food processor and make tomato puree. Stir fry olive oil, garlic, and sweet onion. Add sliced Italian heirloom "Nardello" sweet peppers. Cook until peppers are tender. Pour tomato puree. To thicken the sauce, you can add carrot puree or canned tomato paste.

Fresh Tomatoes

Today I had the chance taking a photo of fresh tomatoes from the garden. I'm not sure the type of heirloom tomato. I thought it was early girl, but apparently I mixed up the seedling. Obviously it is not early girl! It might be brandywine.

New free music

You can now listen to my recordings of Yamaha Electone (electric organ). I just uploaded several music at acidplanet.com. My profile name is pianoetudes.

 

Start clicking here for Kuda Lumping, a traditional dance from Java. To browse my recordings, click Next and Previous.

 

An Der Schoenen, Blauen Donau click here.

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées click here.

Tomatos and three-tier planter

It's tomato time! This season I started with (a) juliet and early girl tomatoes in large self-watering planters; (b) two window box roma in small planters; (c) brandywine and big mama tomatoes in the earthbox. In the 3-tier planter, I grow the latest "Shockwave" petunia from seeds! ($6 for 10 seeds!) I started the seeds in February 2011. These are very superior petunias. They grow, bloom and fill the planter so fast.

More pictures of Spring Garden 2011

Here is the overall garden picture on April 26, 2011. The orange crown imperialis is attached. It is 24" tall and georgeous but I don't think I'm going to grow it again next year. Crown imperialis bulb is hard to maintain.

Spring 2011

Five months later, I took these pictures when the tulips, muscari and daffodils were blooming (muscari are the short blue and white flowers in the front). Daffodil minnows are the little white and yellow daffodils on the left.

Fall bulbs for Spring

On Tuesday, November 2, 2010, I planted several daffodil, tulip and muscari bulbs along a shady area under the tree in my garden. I took a picture and carefully labeled the location of the tulips and daffodils. Two crown imperial bulbs were placed in the black plastic pots but later I moved them away.