#needs more garlic

Doesn't look like much, but that's 10 pounds of pureed tomatoes--skins, seeds and all. After cutting out the weird looking stuff. I started with almost 15 pounds. Going to make sauce and freeze it.

Tomatoes 10 pounds 🍅

Brown sugar 2 Tbsp and 2 tsp

Salt 2.5 tsp

Black pepper 2.5 tsp

Garlic 1 entire bulb 🧄

Might need more garlic.

Allium: What's the best thing you can cook? My dad's side of the family is Sicilian and we have a recipe for - what we always just called "sauce" but you might know as spaghetti sauce, red sauce, marinara, gravy, etc.

It's a traditional Sicilian sauce and there are some rules you have to follow (it simmers for at least three hours for example), but the recipe is never written down - it's passed down orally and by example as each generation teaches the next. And every family member kinda tweaks it slightly to their own style.

As for myself, I'm vegetarian so I add veggie meatballs and sausages. I also like to use fresh herbs and fresh chopped garlic and I add a LOT of garlic. I even have my very own secret ingredient, which no, I will not tell you. :P

Calla Lily: If you died right now, what song would you want to play at your funeral? Imagine, John Lennon. And then idk maybe play some party dance mix jams or something because I want my funeral to be a celebration.

It was only.... slightly a failure.

Which is a cast improvement over every other time I've tried to actually cook something.