Until tonight. And I hope I did alright with that - and more.
Most of you will probably remember I didn't start gardening until last year. Well, to make a long story short, all I've had to do was water it, pick the produce, and perform some simple tasks while my dad did the bulk of the work making sauce or filling peppers. Unfortunately busy enough that I couldn't watch what he was doing too closely or too often.
He had to leave for work and asked me to seal the last 6 jars from the last batch of sauce. Ok, easy enough. Let it come to a boil, let it boil one hour, and pull the jars out. I don't think I could screw that up.
I also had to boil and blanch what came out to roughly 5 quarts of green and wax beans. Ok. I think I did ok here too. Snip, boil, fill, and dunk in ice water until the bags are sucked in... They looked like his, so I think I may have done ok here too.
Then came the tomatoes. I suck,I think. I suspect I wasted a lot while I was peeling and coring them because I started out with 15 pounds of raw tomatoes and wound up with 9 pounds after I pureed them, which I'm hoping is the setting I was supposed to run. The manual and my mom said to, so I did.
Its pure liquid, and a lot lighter in color than the stuff we have done and jarred. Right now I'm hoping its what he wanted, and really glad we have as many more ripening as we do.
Anyone know a good reciped for tomato juice if I screwed up?
I think I need an Elmer of the gardening world...
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