Tomato Sauce for Pasta

Our garden is giving us lots of great tomatoes. This weekend, we had about 20 tomatoes to use up, so I made up a tomato sauce for pasta. I adapted a recipe that I got from a book that Sarah and I bought while we were in Italy. It calls for basil and luckily our friends down the street have been growing basil and hooking us up. The sauce tasted so fresh and delicious. We put it on spaghetti, but I would recommend a different pasta that would hold the sauce better... maybe rigatoni.

Ingredients

• 8 tomatoes
• 2-3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• 8 leaves of fresh basil, sliced into strips
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions

Peel the tomatoes by placing each tomato in boiling water for 30-60 seconds, then placing it in an ice water bath. The tomato skins should split and peel easily. Chop the peeled tomatoes.

Warm the oil in a frying pan and add the garlic until the garlic just turns brown. Add the tomatoes, salt, and pepper, and cook for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add the basil.