First Jars of the Season

[msmofet]

I usually resize in paint shop to 650 X 458 pixels approx.

 

[badjak]

Back to the canned tomato..
Barriehie
Did you use "raw" tomatoes or did you (partly) cook them?
Anything else in there?

 

[Barriehie]

The site automatically does that anyhow. But thank you.

My connectivity is poor enough that I get that parsing error if I try to upload the typical 3.5 meg file so I shrink them down to at most 300K prior to starting the upload. That still takes a minute, literally. ATT...

 

[Barriehie]

Back to the canned tomato..
Barriehie
Did you use "raw" tomatoes or did you (partly) cook them?
Anything else in there?

Boiled for 5 minutes before putting in the jars. Preheating them drastically reduces the needed time at pressure. For my pint/500ml jars I added 1/8 tsp of citric acid and 1/4 tsp salt before putting in the tomatoes and juice. The citric acid for pH and the salt for flavor.

 

[Barriehie]

Now I've made several jars of a chipotle mix; tomatoes, onions, garlic, corn, chili's, smoke, and some salt. The usual with the citric acid.

 

[Barriehie]

A couple of jars of mixed chili's!

 

[Barriehie]

Getting into the last jars of the season. Another 1/2 gallon of tomatoes.

 

[badjak]

Getting into the last jars of the season. Another 1/2 gallon of tomatoes.View attachment 135124

Nice.
Looks like you got the hang of this.
Are you going to be able to eat all?

 

[Barriehie]

Nice.
Looks like you got the hang of this.
Are you going to be able to eat all?

Hmm, I've never gone into winter with 5 gallons of jarred tomatoes! I'm sure I've got enough to get me through to the start of next year's harvest.

 

[badjak]

Hmm, I've never gone into winter with 5 gallons of jarred tomatoes! I'm sure I've got enough to get me through to the start of next year's harvest.

I'm sure you got plenty!

 

[JAS_OH1]

Hmm, I've never gone into winter with 5 gallons of jarred tomatoes! I'm sure I've got enough to get me through to the start of next year's harvest.

In my house that would probably be gone by June!

Big batch of spaghetti and meat sauce for groomer girls?

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I’ll take some off your hands

 

[Barriehie]

In my house that would probably be gone by June!

Big batch of spaghetti and meat sauce for groomer girls?

If they're gone by June then about 6 weeks of no tomatoes. This past year it was about 8 months!

They don't eat much beef which is good since it's so expensive. I feed them like Pippi by alternating the proteins. Beef, chicken, pork, turkey, ham etc. Have to work some fish in there...

 

[Barriehie]

I’ll take some off your hands

I'll save some for your USA trip.