Worth the Effort

Last spring one of Luke's coworkers gave us some pepper and tomato seedlings. Since we don't eat fresh tomatoes here, I used the tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce to freeze. It was a long, messy, putzy process - partly because the tomatoes weren't the type of tomatoes typically used to make sauces with. When I finished, I had serious doubts about whether I wanted to plant tomatoes again - it seemed like an awful lot of work for the amount of spaghetti sauce I got.

After eating the homemade spaghetti sauce all winter, seeing the boys take seconds and thirds every time we had it, and learning from my friend Cheryl that Roma-type tomatoes are better for sauce, we decided to go ahead and try again.





I guess those happy grins and messy faces are worth the effort!