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Home » Marinara Sauce: Fresh from Your Tomato Garden (Easy and Delicious!)
Marinara Sauce: Fresh from Your Tomato Garden (Easy and Delicious!)

Marinara Sauce: Fresh from Your Tomato Garden (Easy and Delicious!)

08/17/2016 By Deborah T

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This Savory Garden Marinara is the perfect dinner to fix on a hot summer night.  It has been an extremely hot past couple of weeks here in North Carolina.  And I mean too hot to even think about grilling outside.

In fact, the temperature has been about 100 degrees for the past two consecutive weeks.  That said, the local tomato crop has peaked and is now waning. So my herbs are just about spent after being beaten down by the sun.

Unfortunately, this means I have only a short time to cherish the fresh ingredients before they are done for the year.

Therefore, I decided this evening to use up a few precious last fresh tomatoes in a fresh marinara sauce. This marinara is a lighter sauce, perfect for a summer evening. Of course, I enjoyed it inside…in the air conditioning!

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Sweet basil, rosemary, and oregano picked fresh from my own herb garden

SAVORY GARDEN MARINARA AND PASTA:

  • five to six large fresh tomatoes – remove skins and seeds
  • 2 tbl. tomato paste
  • one large sprig of fresh rosemary
  • a small handful of fresh sweet basil
  • two sprigs of fresh oregano
  • one clove of garlic
  • 2 tsp. olive oil
  • 1 tsp of fresh cracked black pepper
  • 1 pound of cooked pasta – rigatoni, penne, or ziti seems to hold up the best
  1. Blanche the tomatoes for one minute. Then submerge in an ice bath. Lastly, remove skins and scoop out excessive seeds.
  2. Dice the tomatoes into fine squares.
  3. Roughly chop up the fresh rosemary, sweet basil, and oregano.
  4. Finely mince the clove of garlic.
  5. Place the olive oil in a 3-quart saucepan — add the garlic and cook it until slightly softened. However, do not let the garlic burn as it takes on a bitter taste.
  6. Add the tomatoes to the saucepan with garlic and olive oil.
  7. Add the remaining spices and herbs – let this cook for 30 minutes with the lid half off to allow condensation to evaporate.
  8. Stir in a couple tablespoons of tomato paste if needed. Your marinara is ready as soon as the sauce thickens.
  9.  As the marinara thickens, boil your pasta to an al dente finish.
  10. After you drain your pasta, stir in the savory garden marinara.

In addition, I garnished my pasta with an extra couple of basil leaves and romano cheese.

Please note that I don’t recommend salt. In fact, this is because I am on a strict diet due to hypertension. But you can add salt if you’d like.  However, I find the flavors bold enough without it.

This savory garden marinara is fast, easy, fun to make, and delicious to eat.

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Click the image to read about how to make this satisfying baked ziti with sausage and cheese.

Happy eating! Please connect on social media and share how this recipe worked for you. Have a happy DIY day.

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Deborah T
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Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.
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About Deborah T

Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.

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