Busy day preserving tomatoes

[Figgerlickinggood]

I don’t have a basement or pantry to store jarred tomatoes so I decided to freeze them instead. I washed, cut up and puréed them in the food processor cooked them with some garlic and onion and basil. After cooking for 1 hour I let it cool down and put it in 2 one gallon freezer bags and will put them in the top freezer in the new mini fridge.

 

[superdave336]

Awesome. Be good during winter time.

 

[Figgerlickinggood]

Awesome. Be good during winter time.

Sauce made with fresh tomatoes is soooo much tastier than canned tomatoes from the grocery store.

 

[superdave336]

Absolutely!

 

[ktrain]

Awesome sauce! lol

 

[Figgerlickinggood]

Awesome sauce! lol

Thank you. After I got it all done and now they are in the feezer when I go outside or in the laundry room and then come back into the house it smells so good when you first open the door.

 

[TorontoJoe]

Good for you! I started pickling banana peppers today.... They grow fast!

 

[rayray]

Great! I'll do the passata in a couple of weeks.

 

[TorontoJoe]

@rayray - Did I ever show you what passata day looks like around here?

 

[Figsee]

I still have about 80 quarts of tomato sauce in the deep freeze from last year I never turned into sauce. Last year, by the end of the gardening season I was kind of over it.

This year I’ve been processing tomatoes and turning them into sauce in smaller batches over doing the whole day cook off. Seems to be going ok at the moment, atleast I haven’t given up yet. Now to figure out what to do with a 80 quart frozen block of tomato juice

 

[Figgerlickinggood]

@rayray - Did I ever show you what passata day looks like around here?

Pictures please.

 

[TorontoJoe]

Pictures please.

 

[superdave336]

That’s a lot of tomatoes!!

 

[bushdoctor82]

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Man, I dislike tomatoes and salted meats, but they smell delicious through the pictures.

 

[TorontoJoe]

That’s a lot of tomatoes!!

We’ve done over 300 jars in a day. It’s a good party too!

 

[Figgerlickinggood]

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Y’all did a FANTASTIC JOB!

 

[PapaFig]

I still have about 80 quarts of tomato sauce in the deep freeze from last year I never turned into sauce. Last year, by the end of the gardening season I was kind of over it.

This year I’ve been processing tomatoes and turning them into sauce in smaller batches over doing the whole day cook off. Seems to be going ok at the moment, atleast I haven’t given up yet. Now to figure out what to do with a 80 quart frozen block of tomato juice

We used to do a lot of homemade salsa too - chunky with jalapeño and onions and lots of lime juice so you don't have to overcook, that's the key IMO. It was always eaten up very quickly in our household.

My sister and I (she's one year older) would do big batches when we were in junior high. Back in the good ole days

 

[PapaFig]

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WOW!

Finally, a good reason to visit Canada

Are those San Marzano? Amish Paste?

A man after my own heart - Go BIG or Go Home!