Harvest

[Freedom]

I spent one entire day last week making tomatoe sauce, with all the fresh tomatoes from my garden. My freezer is not stocked and we will enjoy "OUR" sauce until about February!


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I use the food processor to puree the tomatoes, then put them in the pot to boil down and get thick. I add salt (a MUST as tomatoes have a high acid content), garlic cloves, BASIL, onions, and sometimes green and red pepper. I put it in a Pyrex container to freeze, then remove to a plastic bag. So they are all the same shape and store easily without the added room of the container. Each bag is marked if it has peppers or not, etc.

[pitc9]

Wow!

[Karen]

The glory and pain of tomatoes is they all seem to ripen at once! When I was a kid we'd spend a couple days canning tomatoes, and it always seemed to be on one of the hottest days!

[gini]

Home grown tomatoes - oh, I can just taste them!

[lvpets2002]

:eek: WoW there is nothing like Fresh Tomatoes.. Those tomatoes are so pretty.. Many Congrats.. Oh now when is the MeatBalls & Speggttii to be done?? Yum Yum

[Randi]

Uhmm, they look yummy! :p Reminds me, I should make some Gazpacho soon.