Dear Canning Gods,
How can this many medium to large slicer tomatoes from my garden yield a measly four quarts of canned tomatoes? I saved about $5 on what I would have spent buying cans of tomatoes at Walmart ... after spending three hours working like a slave in a hot kitchen (not to mention the months of labor in the garden) about $30 buying stuff to make this canning possible.
I'll admit that I feel a certain sense of pride when I look at these four quarts of tomatoes. But I've got to be honest: I don't know if I will be doing this again.
Sincerely yours,
Ariel
How can this many medium to large slicer tomatoes from my garden yield a measly four quarts of canned tomatoes? I saved about $5 on what I would have spent buying cans of tomatoes at Walmart ... after spending three hours working like a slave in a hot kitchen (not to mention the months of labor in the garden) about $30 buying stuff to make this canning possible.
I'll admit that I feel a certain sense of pride when I look at these four quarts of tomatoes. But I've got to be honest: I don't know if I will be doing this again.
Sincerely yours,
Ariel
7 comments:
Well, I think your tomatoes are beautiful. I think canned tomatoes are some of the prettiest produce in their jars. I'm very impressed.
Next time you should freeze them. Just cut out the stem/core part, and put them whole in freezer bags. Then you can use them in place of stewed tomatoes in recipes.
Should I ever get a crop of tomatoes that amounts to more than 3 cherries, I might try it too.
Cassidy, I would love to freeze them, but I don't have the freezer space. I keep telling Adam we need to buy a second fridge.
A freezer may serve you better than another fridge...get an upright..not a chest...
another thing you can do with tomatoes is to make bruschetta and freeze it.
Tomatoes are hard cause they take so long, but they taste 100 times better than those cans at wally world. And the first season you can is always the hardest, not really sure what you are doing and always needing to buy jars. It gets better with time, I promise.
my many hurrahs to you Ariel because I have not a diddly what to do with a mason jar nor a tomato to put in it! May you make many a tasty salsa, or soup or whatever with your four hard won quarts? pints? See, I don't even know that much.
i'm super super impressed and jealous of your canned tomatoes. they may be hard work--but i am sure they will taste SO good come winter time soups.
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