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Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Am I Coming or Going?

Between moving and canning all the tomato products we need for the up coming year I seriously don't know whether I'm coming or going!  I'm in major overdrive mode while trying to ignore the fact that I'm not feeling well.  The good news is my doctor's office called this morning with my test results and were nice enough to fax a prescription to my pharmacy saving me a trip to her office!    I had to go into town anyway to pick up a few canning supplies for the sauces I planned making today so I called the pharmacy before leaving the house.  They hadn't received the fax yet so I decided to pick up the groceries first then check back with them before leaving town.  They had the fax but said my prescription wouldn't be ready for 20 - 30 minutes.  Since I had taken advantage of some great frozen fish sales I didn't want to wait that long and besides I was anxious to get the longer cook sauces on.  I called my husband to pick up my prescription on his way through town.  When I got home I set about getting the pizza sauce and two roasted tomato sauces going.  Neither will be ready for canning until later tonight but I can get a batch of crushed tomatoes canned in the meantime.

Garden Gnome
©2006-2011


Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Making Sauce

plain spaghetti sauce
Plain Tomato Sauce
August 20, 2010

This is the time of year that I'm extremely busy processing tomatoes.  Along with canning excess tomatoes from the garden I also process an average of 10 hampers (6¼ bushels) of commercially grown tomatoes from a relative.  Pictured is one of the first tomato based sauces I made this year.  I will be blogging about it on my cooking blog along with the other tomato based products I stock my pantry with.  I thought you might be interested in seeing what I'm up to this time of year.  The gold lids are standard Bernardin single use metal canning lids.  Once used they are not to be reused for canning.  The white lids are Tattler reusable lids that I'm testing out in the hopes of eliminating the disposable ones.  Doesn't that sauce look yummy?

Garden Gnome
©2006-2010