Tomato ka-pow

MadJohnShaft · August 09, 2012, 10:27:17 PM

Tomato

Ka-pow

It is sad to turn all those good eating tomatoes into sauce but that was a defensive move.

mortlock · August 10, 2012, 01:35:58 AM

do what you got to do..

RAGER · August 10, 2012, 01:45:16 AM

Quote from: MadJohnShaft on August 09, 2012, 10:27:17 PM
Tomato

Ka-pow

It is sad to turn all those good eating tomatoes into sauce but that was a defensive move.

That's funny. Before I read the last line, that's exactly what I was thinking. I'm not so much into canning as I am into freezing. Freeze them whole or diced and stewed or blanched.

MadJohnShaft · August 10, 2012, 08:39:24 AM

I have three Roma plants out there that haven't started doing their thing yet, I've been giving away tomatoes at work. This year is a big one for tomatoes.

I make ziplock bags of sauce to freeze - including my finest invention, freezing one single pizza's worth in snack bags. This round I left it a little chunky.

( salt pork, rosemary, red pepper, oil, can of tomatoe paste, tomatoes is the step moms recipe I use)

I never tried freezing tomatoes - ill have to do that this year. Do you take off skin and seeds or blanch? Or just chop up and stick in a bag?

RAGER · August 10, 2012, 12:09:49 PM

blanch em to get the skins off then either chop or leave them whole. not much of a garden for me this year. Spending too many hours at the restaurant.

lowdaddy · August 11, 2012, 04:53:25 AM

is that a chayote between the eggplant and cantaloupe?

MadJohnShaft · August 11, 2012, 02:50:46 PM

Mango.

I have a few tomatoes to use so I will freeze chopped up. I like it.

MadJohnShaft · September 06, 2012, 05:09:44 PM

Cannot eat or look at another tomato. There are still a million more coming in before the freeze - most of the romas are still green. There must be another dozen or so of the gigantic two pounders out there too. Urgh...

This year was a bumper crop, I made 3 rounds of sauce and froze another bunch. Will be hard to eat up by next summer. Must concentrate.

MadJohnShaft · October 07, 2012, 02:24:25 PM

Final Harvest .... There is still chard, leeks, failed tomatillos and some nice herbs

Saving the seeds each year - This guy is the grandson pumpkin - the third generation from my backyard. I only get one.

With the horseradish I made plain and beet flavored. Refrigerator style only. I love this stuff. I am trying to move it out of the garden to an ornamental location - this was in the garden anyway - the part left were the long runners I didn't use. It made three huge thick roots. Wonderful.

Tomato Ka-pow

I made one pumpkin seed Sage and one spicy peppers. Hey- that gourd in the middle was hanging off my house - didn't plant it, must have been in the compost pile from last year.

Squash etc