They're here. We wait all year for them and when they arrive it is Bedlam for weeks, Tomatoes everywhere. Tomatoes are the one food that I can the most of probably evrything. Stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, dehydrated tomatoes, Rotel tomatoes and oven roasted tomatoes. Not to mention taco soup and chili.
What I hate about tomato season. Fruit gnats!
I picked my first cantaloupe yesterday. I grew a new variety for me called Minnesota Midget. An heirloom variety that makes a small fruit just the size for 2. The critter (probably a possum) got the first one and approved. I will let you know what I think of the variety.
Sometime I want to make some ghee. I bought the butter just need to get the time to make it. Anyone else make ghee or can butter?
I also want to dehydrate some tomato peels for powder. Never tried that before but it does sound useful.
The other thing I want to try is cucumber powder. Dehydrated cucumber ground into powder for salad dressings sounds interesting also.
Back to my tomatoes!
Blessings from The Holler
The Canned Quilter
I now only can salsa and regular diced tomatoes. I found that I didn't like the way herbs turned wonky in home canned products. If I'm making chili, I use my home canned salsa. Perfect. I too make tomoato powder but not from the skins but rather the flesh. It's wonderful. I loathe the gnats as well! I can butter every year when it goes on sale for $1.99 a pound around the holidays. Her's part 1 to a two part video I made several years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjpY3Kv5mRY
ReplyDeleteI can tomato sauce every year. Just plain tomatoes with no seasoning at all. I too do not like seasoning in my canned goods. I have a dehydrator full of a couple trays peels and the rest flesh to experiment. I picked up butter on sale for 1.99 and stocked up but would like to not tie up my freezer with it. Thanks for the video and I will take a look.
DeleteI just posted about tomatoes too! Great minds think alike I suppose. I can whole tomatoes because, like you, I don't love the processed flavors that the herbs take on. Adding it later to canned whole tomatoes makes the most freshest flavored sauces. I am also doing a lot of sundried (dehyrator dried, actually) cherry tomatoes. I'll probably do some salsa too.
ReplyDeleteI have made ghee before and plan to do so again as our milkcow is keeping me quite busy. She makes 4-5 gallons per milking...so about 10 gallons a day! Thank goodness we have pigs and calf that help drink it up without wasting any. But I am still busy with it as I have 2-3 gallons a day to use up in cheese/butter/yogurt/allthestuff making. I have been making butter and throwing it in the freezer but we have four hogs that will need freezer space before November. I haven't canned butter but I think I will do that now that I've watched the above video. Thanks!
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