Lara's Pizza Sauce

I made this sauce last year but I decided to tweak it a little bit more for the best most amazing pizza sauce. I ended up with a half case of seconds tomatoes from a guy on the side of the road selling produce. The guy gave me all the tomatoes for free plus I had a couple of tomatoes from my garden to add to this sauce. I always make my pizza dough from scratch and it's so nice to be able to open up a jar of sauce that's ready to use.

Lara's Special Pizza Sauce

5-6 pints

25-28 tomatoes or 15 large size tomatoes in 3" diameters
2 large onions, minced
4 garlic cloves, minced
3 tbps olive oil
2 Tbps lemon juice
1 1/2 tsp pepper
2 Tbps Sugar
4 TBPS fresh parsley, chopped
1 TBPS oregano
1 TBPS basil
1 tsp rosemary
1 tsp celery seed
1 tsp fennel seed
2 tsp salt
2 8 oz cans of tomato paste

directions:

1. Dice tomatoes and cook tomatoes on med heat for 30 minutes!
2. Puree tomatoes in bender....two cups at a time
3. Mince the onion and garlic
4. Put olive oil in deep pan and saute the onions and garlic until transparent. Add onions and garlic to tomatoe puree and the rest of the ingredients; stir well to blend. Cook on low until mixture is reduced. Keep stirring occasionally for 1.5 or 2 hours.
5. When sauce is done and nicely thickened, ladle into hot pint size jars, clean the rims of the jars, and seal. Process for 25 mintues in water bath or pressure cook for 15 minutes at 10 lbs of pressure.

enjoy!