Homemade Spaghetti Sauce!

I know finally... I was able to get the pictures of Rose, Leah and I making our own homemade spaghetti sauce. It was a lot of fun and I love when I get to do cool things like this with my sisters! So you take about 20lbs of tomatoes and drop them in boiling water for about 5 mins. Then you quickly throw them into some ice water where you take them out one by one and peel the skin off. Next step is you mash them in the colander and get all the juice out. When its pretty mushy you stick it in your nice big pot with :

2 cups chopped fresh onions (then sauté or microwave them until they are soft)	3 Tablespoons of oregano
3 clove of garlic, minced	2 bay leaves
2 Tablespoons diced, fresh OR dried basil	1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped celery (optional, may be too strong for some folk's tastes)	2 Tablespoons chopped red sweet peppers
I then let it cook most of the day, it was still kind of chunky but if you want it smoother just stick in the blender. We froze it in freezer ziplock bags and that worked pretty good. Italian sausage added to it the day I made spaghetti was so good!	1/4 cup lemon juice (helps to acidify it, not necessary if you have a pressure canner)