Pioneer Woman at Heart

I brought in another 21.11# of tomatoes on Thursday.  Our whopping tomato tally reached 304.33# (so far this season). I didn't have enough to can a 1/2 batch of tomato sauce, so I decided to use a portion of them to try that new BBQ sauce I wanted to try. The recipe is from Better Homes and Garden's and th ey have the recipe online.   The trick I have been using to check the reduction amount, is to first mea sure with the handle of a wooden spoon.  I tie on a twist tie, and wipe it clean.  Each time I mea sure I can quickly see where I am in the process.  By the way, this recipe tastes so much better than Ball's recip e I canned two years ago.  We l ove it.  Next batch will be a doubl e batch.   In between all that, I got greens in the freezer, but I'm falling behind.  The yellow straight neck squash is piling up.  The cauliflower is just now producing as well.  The swiss chard is going bananas, and I cannot sque...

Our grocer sometimes sells organic russet or red potatoes.  This week they has russet on sale for $1.99/3 lb. bag. Although the grocer gal checking me out, insisted that staff on the TV show The Chew ,  verified freezing mashed potatoes was not worth it (nor freezing any potato in any form).  I am doing it anyway, and hope they are wrong. Our home grown supply has dwindled to about nothing, so this is my last resort to stock up potatoes.  Other than dehydrating, which I know works.