Thing Forty-One: Garden pasta sauce

This year, I decided to grow Roma tomatoes for the first time. I had previously grown tomatoes that were great for eating raw in salads or sliced onto sandwiches or burgers, but none that were really good for cooking. Romas are probably the epitome of a cooking tomato, so I planted two of those this year. In the past week, it seems like they decided to suddenly have oodles and oodles of fruit come ripe all at once. I knew I needed to use some up, pronto. Given that I also have a bounty of Mediterranean herbs growing in my deck garden, I decided pasta sauce was the way to go. This is the first time in a long time I've done process-pictures of a cooking endeavor, so there are tons of photos under the cut.
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