Liza and Maria stemming the basil.
Fresh tomatoes and onions
With basil thrown in.
Some of the fresh ingredients: onions, basil.
Here's Maddie crushing the green, raw olives with a meat mallet.
She instructed me that it was okay to leave the pit in, or if it popped out, that was okay, too.
And into the bucket of water they went.
Maria adding some sea salt.
Fresh basil leaves and sea salt sitting on top of the mountain of tomatoes and onions.
Liza doing olive duty.
Tomatoes, basil, onion and garlic.
John did a lot of the heavy lifting, under the close direction of Maria.
Sauce simmered down.
After the sauce cooked down, John and Maria fed the sauce through an electric food mill.
The bowl filled pretty quickly, so John had to decant it often, back into a stockpot for further reducing.
