Hello!
Andy and I have spent a lot of time this summer picking food out of our garden and perusing the aisles of various farmers markets. Which means that we get a lot of fresh produce, very often. We have more peppers and tomatoes than we know what to do with. So what do we do with them? We can them!
So far we have made dill pickels, canned tomatoes and salsa! We've eaten some of the extra salsa and it was delicious! It's really exciting to have a supply of food if armageddon comes. Canning is exciting and easy once you get the basic steps down. Laura was nice enough to get us a wonderful canning book that explains the steps in basic language.
Here is a photo montage of our pickling and canning tomatoes efforts.
Consulting the canning literature while the pickling spices steep.
That's a lot of cucumbers! Turns out, it was too much cucumbers.
Andy looking pretty with our fresh dill flowers.
Canning tomatoes all shiny and clean! Ready to be skinned and chopped!
Andy filling jars and adjusting headspace.
