Either way, we did not miss the pasta. I used home canned tomato sauce (herbed) in place of Marinara sauce. It was very good, and of course perfect for my husband's health (and mine). I will be making this again. Recipe is from Sugar free Mom online.
I'm still canning. I canned another half batch of tomato sauce yesterday. See that white bowl in the upper left? My husband dropped it and broke part of the pour spout off, and the handle is cracked about 2 inches downward. The smaller matching bowl was also broken.
I went to look up the price of another set of these, and they are now $109.00 for the set of 3!! Crazy!! I will be looking for other options.
The one on the left is the original, the one on the right was the replacement a year ago. The bottom gasket for it, where it goes into the inside of the sauce maker, and where the handle goes in from the outside, has been out of stock. I have to wrap a towel around the base to collect all the liquid that drips out during the process when I crank the handle on the sauce maker.
The replacement for these are up to $22.00. I found one similar to it on Amazon (saving me $7.00), that is made for a different brand of sauce maker, and it works. It's slightly smaller, but it works, and hopefully will keep working until this canning season is done this year.
In the midst of looking for something, I found this box that was packed up during the kitchen renovations. Daughter K made it for me. I am keeping my leftover bits of cotton yarn in it, along with a crochet hook. I can now work on small scrap projects while watching the canner pot.
We had some thunderstorms come in yesterday, but it was still very hot and humid. They say it will cool down now, and I am looking forward to that.