Roast tomato sauce

Wednesday 4.15pm

Keriann has sent me a recipe for roast tomato sauce, which I have not tried yet but will soon ( Nicola’s tomato crop is ripening like crazy at the moment ) In the meantime here is a quick and easy roast tomato sauce that I make quite often. Great for tomatoes in the fridge that have just gone past their best.

Put the oven on to its hottest.

- Then in an oven proof bowl put –

- a handful of tomatoes, cherry left whole, bigger ones cut into chunks

- a clove of garlic peeled and squashed

- a bunch of thyme

- and salt and pepper

Mix a tablespoon or so of olive oil through and bung in the oven.

Twenty minutes to half an hour later when the tomato skins are blackening and the kitchen smells like a Mediterranean holiday, take the bowl out and push the whole lot through a sieve into another bowl.

Makes a great soup mixed with carrot soup or with pasta it becomes more of a coating or glaze than a sauce. It would also make a cool salad dressing I should think with some lemon juice added perhaps.

Talking of pasta I used to always add it to spaghetti when I did most of the cooking and Nicola worked. Later on, when positions were reversed the kids asked – why does mum’s plain pasta not taste the same as peter’s ? It is an idea if you worry about such things as why kids don’t eat vegetables ( I don’t )