Okay DT I tried to do this 2 days ago from my girlfriends netbook... It was irritating and it sucked so... here's your sauce.
Pick and wash tomatoes.
Start a big pot of water boiling for blanching.
You blanch until the skin rips and then you remove the tomato from the water and remove the skin from the tomato.
Put tomato in another pot. repeat until pot is full or you're out of tomatoes.
Now add bell pepper, garlic, yellow onion and fresh basil. I also added some chili flakes to the batch that is pictured.
cook on medium low until reduced to the consistency you like... this will take many hours I believe it took around 8 hours for this sauce to be ready and the volume was reduced by more than half.
This picture is about 5 hours in.
The final product. I ended up with a little over a gallon with this batch. I canned 7/8s of a gallon and kept a quart out for use that night.
In case you don't know how to can.
http://www.freshpreserving.com/getting-started
Everything is chugging along indoors.
The bubbas are looking super nice and ridiculously dense.
Bubbas dinner, Worm casting molasses tea.
This is an Agent Orange seed off of last years crop... it's so pretty and god damn is it covered in pistils .. Oh and it's only in a 10g geopot.
General Shots The OG blackberry is looking nice.
Rom in the background.... It's a good thing I bought those giant ass bamboo stakes.