8 Steps

With all of the beautiful, hot, sunny weather that we had in New England this summer, we ended up with a bumper crop of tomatoes. So many tomatoes that we weren't quite sure what to do with them all. To use up some of the extras, we decided to start making our own pizza sauce. The following post walks through the 8 steps to homemade pizza with homemade pizza sauce!

Step #1 - Pick fresh tomatoes - the fresher the better!

Step #2 - Dunk tomatoes in boiling water for 30-45 seconds.

Step #3 - Remove tomatoes from boiling water and drop in ice water. This makes it easy to slide the tomato skins right off.

Step #4 - Remove tomato skins.

Step #5 - Squeeze tomatoes and drain as much of the liquid as possible. I was not very good at this step, but did my best!

Step #6 - Place all the squeezed tomatoes into a large sauce pan and simmer. We added fresh onion and basil from the garden as well as salt and pepper to season. We also found that the addition of some tomato paste was helpful and made it saucier.

Step #7 - Spread fresh pizza sauce on homemade pizza dough. Add favorite ingredients, plus some tasty cheese, and bake.

Step #8 - Eat and enjoy!