tomato cook up

One day last week I found myself in the kitchen doing a big cook up.

It wasn't what I had planned to do that day but we found that our back fridge- you know the one I painted with blackboard paint had blown up. 

We think it happened in a huge storm where the guttering overflowed and went into the electricals at the back- I am so sad after having it look so good! 

So now we need to get a new back fridge.

Anyhow I needed to cook up some meat from the freezer, then I found myself dealing with the box of Roma tomatoes that I had bought for 69c a kilo at the local fruit and veg and making a pile of too ripe bananas into gluten free banana cake.

So with my Roma tomatoes I made tomato sauce and tomato relish.
I love the date 12/11/10- this of course wouldn't work in America, but in Australia we write the day then the month and then the year.

Find the recipes here and here and I also made some semi dried tomatoes.

                                    You can find the easy recipe for these here.

I made my labels by quickly painting on some blackboard paint and using a white marker.

I was going to use a liquid chalk pen but the only one they had at the newsagent was too thick.

This marker won't come off in a hurry but is probably better than smudging everywhere.

We just love our homemade sauces and relishes they are so much nicer than commercial stuff, and that's the problem because they taste so nice they never last long!

I am hoping to get some more cheap tomatoes to make some up for Christmas presents as I don't think these ones will make it to then!

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