Well, we have tons of tomatos so we decided to try our hand at making some salsa. Once we got our basic ingredients it really wasn't that hard and our first batch turned out to taste great and had just the right heat and flavor. We made another batch that was spicier and tasted just as good. We ended up with five jars of the regular (which we have named "The Original") and 6 jars of the second batch (which we named "Salsa 101" for the heat).
After all of the salsa we decided that the canning process wasn't quite so bad so we decided to do some jam. A sweet older lady that Jeremy does work for called and said to come and get some figs from her tree so Jeremy did. He came home with three bags of figs! We made 10 jars of jelly from those 3 bags. It is a fig base but we added extracts to make different flavors. It really worked!! We now have raspberry, strawberry, maple brown sugar and fig jelly. I didn't get a picture of the jellies but they sure were good too. Our next canning endeavor? Whole potatos and tomatos, and homemade tomato sauce for spaghetti. The best part...we are saving LOTS of $$$ by using our garden and doing it ourselves. I can't wait until our entire pantry is our jars!!
I was just glancing through hoping you all aren't angry with us for our delay in sending Joshua's box. It went out today, priority mail. I will guess it will arrive Monday. Anyway, I was thinking if your children like salsa, we make this tomato-less version and my kids LOVE it. http://scottchriscoricassicali.blogspot.com/2009/05/yum.html
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Christie