FG, your tomatoes sound like Roma or similar "pear" tomatoes....very good canning as juice or sauce.

If I'd had some home canned tomato sauce the zuchinni lasagna Mrs. T baked yesterday would have been competely "off the land" except for the cheese.   Tomato and pepper home grown, as were the basil, oregano, and parsely; as was the venison burger mixed through.

Disclaimer:  I didn't shoot the deer but I helped to butcher it.