Tomato Products

As  the rest of the country anticipated a shortage of tomato products in our future according to the recent  exploits of the media here I sit. Hip deep I tell you in nothing other than tomatoes. For the second year in a row a bumper crop of good old homegrown tomatoes. These days my kitchen table, kitchen counters and any other flat surface I can find is covered in seeds drying, vegetables ripening, vegetables waiting to be washed, blanched, chopped, dehydrated, frozen or canned. There is no tomato product shortage in The Holler. 

 

You can find tomatoes as they ripen cooking down in roasters and crockpots waiting to go into yummy dishes of some sort. These will be run through the immersion blender for homemade tomato sauce. 

On the table Rotel tomatoes in pint jars, Quarts of okra and tomatoes, canned chicken, watermelon seeds drying along with ripening tomatoes and green peppers. 

I caught navy beans on sale for $0.50 cents a pound so I bought 5 pounds. Came home and added onions, hamburger, maple syrup and homemade tomato sauce for 24 pints of barbecue beans.

I an also still processing fresh red beans. 

Yesterdays endeavor was taco soup with 3 pounds of dried black beans cooked until soft, 3 pounds of burger, and 3 pounds of corn, add hot peppers and onions chopped along with chili powder, cumin, homegrown garlic  and lots of cooked down fresh tomato sauce and I canned 12 jars of taco soup. 

Yes indeed the tomato products are flowing right now in my kitchen. 

Blessings from The Holler

The Canned Quilter