Lemony-Basil Tomato soup (BHG recipe). One last canning day with paste tomatoes. Next year we plan to grow several types of paste tomatoes. I have put a towel over my sauce and put sticky notes until the 24 hour period has passed, so I can label before I forget what is what ha ha!
The big pots are being put away, and tables taken down and folded up. The tomato splatters all washed away, stove top scrubbed down. It's a hoorah moment today.
It's a good feeling when the tomato season (other than our slicers left to enjoy) has come to an end. I have been canning daily here for almost 2 weeks, and it will be a fine joy to have a day off today.
As most of you know, when canning season is in full swing, other work suffers inside and outside the homestead. It will be nice to get some things in order today. I hope to get my emails read finally too.
Canning season is not over yet. At least I hope not, as we need hot pepper relish in the pantry. I most likely will not can hot pepper jelly this year. I guess we'll see, as some of the kids like it. It just depends on supply and time.
I took a look-see at the other squash, and I do not see one acorn squash on the acorn squash plants. Strange, unless the bees were so busy on the zucchini this year, they didn't make it over there?? I will take a closer look after the garden dries out a bit.
The rain that came through here, and even last night, has brought us a welcomed cooler weather.
One last note: I asked my husband to pick me up a few pounds of ground pork from a local butcher. He didn't. He went to the store and got 2 pounds of grocery store "country" sausage. Read the labels, and this is why I make my own breakfast sausage. It contained "corn syrup" as the 3rd ingredient. No wonder some people are diabetic and have other health issues. Just an FYI. You'd never think, corn syrup would be in sausage. They often use a sweetener in store breakfast sausages and roll sausages.
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You are lucky that you get enough tomatoes coming in at the same time to can. I had to buy some seconds at the farmers market to get my quarts of crushed tomatoes and two batches of Ball’s Zesty salsa. The ones we are growing have been going in the freezer to make sauce at a later cooler date.
This weekend, I’m planning on canning jalapeño jelly for my sister and salsa verde for us. The tomatillos are ready and we always have jalapeños!
I have canned two new things so far this year using tested safe recipes of course: French onion soup (a double batch) which was a TON of stirring and split pea soup (a triple! batch). I haven’t tried them yet. I just wanted to be able to open a jar and eat without the long cook time. I no longer like commercially canned soup.
-Katie C.