When your neighbor is generous enough to bring you this
and you only need two more pounds to make a full batch of ketchup, you go buy two more pounds and make ketchup, right? Even if last week you made a smaller batch from six pounds of tomatoes because you wanted to duplicate the masala ketchup at Red Martini, and you ended up with only ONE HALF of a pint of finished product, but you FORGET about that and forge ahead, right?
So you cut and cook, like this
and after about thirty minutes of boiling and stirring you pull this thing out
because you will be using it for what seems like forever, like this
and this
and this some more.
You end up with this
which has to reduce by HALF, and according to the recipe, should only take about 45 minutes - see this
but the evening wears on
and on
(and if you have a sensitive nose and you're sick of smelling ketchup, you do this)
until it's bedtime and so you pull out this
and then you wake up, clean up the pots and go back to this
which is MORE than halfway reduced, but it still seems too thin so you cook it for a few hours more, until you're just fed up and add the tandoori masala seasoning, put it in jars, cut the canner loose and end up with this
and just hope you remember to tell the people you give some to that it's going to be thinner than store-bought ketchup, per this
and promise yourself that next time you're just going to add this
to this
and call it a day.
