Monday, September 26, 2011
One Can
All those tomatoes from the past week's harvest were starting to turn mushy after about two days because of all the cracks. I had a few good tomatoes still from the week prior so I cut off all the spoiled parts, quartered them and threw them in a stock pot to simmer. After some time I ran them through my mother in law's food mill which I borrowed to make puree and sauces this Fall. I then returned the contents back to the pot and reduced it for awhile. About two hours later, after spent time, energy, electricity for cooking and canning and a pile of tomatoes I ended up with this one can of tomato sauce/puree. It was well worth saving the tomatoes from going bad but sometimes in canning I am surprised with how much or little I end up with.
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That's a beautiful jar of Tomato puree, you might be able to get it at a specialty store for quite a few bucks.BUT.that's yours, from your garden and you didn't waste it by just leaving it to rot! That's thanking Mother Nature for blessing you.. :o)
ReplyDeleteThat stinks! I know how you feel! I have discovered with tomatoes, that the easiest thing for me is to blanch for 1 min, peel, then stuff into jars whole and can them. Then, when I need a jar, I can virtually do anything with it from that point. Sauce...Salsa....soup, whatever!
ReplyDeleteYay!for you! You still went ahead and canned it! That's commitment!
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