To-ma-to, Tom-ahhh-to!

in #gardening6 years ago

Although we've already had a frost, we did manage to pick most of our tomatoes just prior to the unwelcome cool down.
Buckets and buckets of tomatoes!
Because their shelf life is somewhat short we had to move quickly to ensure we could enjoy the fruits of our labor for months to come.

First we made some Salsa. We started by cutting up Jalapeno's from the garden, next we added red, yellow, and orange bell peppers. These were not from our garden, more on that another time. We also added a bunch of red onion from the garden.
Next, we scored the ends of the tomatoes and blanched them for a couple of minutes to remove the skins.
We put all of the ingredients into a pot and bring it up to a boil. We then added some Cilantro from the garden for an authentic taste!
We processed them in a boiling water bath. We wound up with seven jars of Salsa but we still have more tomatoes!

We decided to dehydrate some for long term storage. Once washed, we slice the tomatoes and lay them on the dehydrator trays. We try to cut them as uniformly as possible for an even drying time.
Here you can see them coming out of the dehydrator ready for storage.
We store them in half gallon size Mason jars and vacuum seal them.

We still have a lot more so we'll be making soup, freezing some, sharing a few with friends and enjoying tomato sandwiches every two or three hours for the next week or two!

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Arriving When you enjoy the results of your work so far, congratulations @brimax

Thank you Brother, you are appreciated.

Hello friend, how do you find that they had a good harvest of tomatoes that is good that they could save it from the cold

I like the different use that we can give tomatoes what I like the most is to prepare them in a sauce for the pasta, a Neapolitan sauce is made and from that sauce, which is a mother sauce, we take out many sauces such as bologna, I grab the sauce

Also my sandwich should always bring tomatoes is the best and more if they are fresh I am happy to know that their harvest was plentiful

Neapolitan sauce on pasta is delicious!

Excellent and hard work that is compensated with the durability of the products, packaged tomato, since the tomato is very versatile, besides being a good companion in stews, salads, soups, sauces and very rich in smoothies and juices, fabulous when dawn with a hangover, I admire your hard work and dedication best of all that keeps your body very active and healthy eating products of your own harvest, greetings to your wife and I congratulate you for that great job of storing food to use in the Winter, greetings to Candy, do not watch her in the video. greetings to you @brimax

I have tried it as a hangover cure with some success. Now I just drink less......haha

Hahaha, how good we can patent the formula. I'm glad to hear from you, here a lot of problems with the light and the Internet. Greetings @brimax

My friend @brimax how is everything on the farm woow I am surprised there are many tomatoes I like the color they have are very bright and red this is a good harvest of tomatoes I'm glad

That sauce they prepared looks very good you can prepare infinities of recipes with them but you are right you have to preserve them the tomatoes do not last long but you did many things with those tomatoes

Greetings to @anise and Candy

Today I am commenting again this is a bit difficult for us Steemit that we do not have many SP

Also the reason I have waited so long to reply, so I can help everyone with comments and votes.
Thank you.

Lol, that's a lot of tomato sandwiches!

Ya, peanut butter and jam is starting to look like a delicacy!

Primero que nada muy estoy muy agredicida despúes de varios dias poder escribir en Steemit @brimax ya empezaba a preocuparme pero todos han hecho un excelente trabajo para tener a tiempo las actualizaciones del Hard Fork 20. Los Tomates son maravillosos y son grandiosas las formas en las cuales se pueden convertir para sacarle el máximo provecho. Saludos y como siempre es un gusto ver tus videos

Thank you. It looks like the hard fork has stabilized and we're getting back to normal!

hahaaa YES!! That's the way you eat tomato sandwiches! There is something so satisfying in putting food by. Your salsa looks yummy, as do the dehydrated tomatoes.

We'll do a video showing what we do with dehydrated maters later....

Oh yeah! I'm looking forward to that.

en salsa napolitana son deliciosos para la pasta@brimax,soy venezolana,un gran saludo y espero pueda visitar mi blog,hasta pronto

Gracias, lo haré.

Gracias, lo haré.