'Too Many Tomatoes' Pasta Sauces

Nothing beats a pasta sauce made out of fresh tomatoes. We rarely buy tinned tomatoes (other than for Lee's chilli) and have not used a pre-made pasta sauce since our student days but buying / growing fresh tomatoes and cooking them up for a pasta sauce is time consuming. We normally choose to have pasta when we need something quick and filling, usually just before we're heading out to play Racketball or Badminton. 

With a glut of tomatoes from the greenhouse this year, we decided to try making our pasta sauces and freezing them. When we need a sauce, we can take one out of the freezer and either microwave or heat it up on the hob whilst the pasta is cooking.  

To make the sauces, we took a very large pan, filled it up with fresh tomatoes and let them boil down into a sauce. Seasoned with salt and pepper and then divided up into freezer pots with enough sauce for 2 portions. Normally I would have given the tomatoes a little blitz with the hand blender but it was packed so Lee took a potato masher to them which removed the big chunks. 

I then prepared other ingredients to pimp up the sauces, including cheddar, blue cheese, bacon bits, chorizo, fried onions, garlic and baked peppers. Lee was then given creative responsibility to add the other ingredients to the tomato portions, creating different combinations of pasta sauces.