Family Photo Nov 2013

Family Photo Nov 2013
Showing posts with label food storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food storage. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Homemade Salsa

Our family just loves homemade salsa. I'm grateful it's so easy to make, it beats store bought any day!

Salsa 
Gina H. modified recipe of neighbor Laura B.

1 large onion chopped (very large or 2 little ones)
14 tomatoes peel and crush them (blanch them for 30 sec., then under cold water, the peel comes right off)
8 large green chilies roasted, peeled, deseeded and chopped
1/2 cup vinegar
1/8 cup of sugar
1 tsp crushed red pepper (optional)
1 tsp Cumin
1/4 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp chili powder
3 tsp salt

Mix all these ingredients well in a pot and bring to a boil and simmer 20 mins. Then bottle in clean jars and process for 25 mins in a canner. You can make this hotter if you like by adding more chili powder and crushed red pepper or adding jalapenos peppers.

This will last at least a year if canned correctly.
1 batch yields 6 pints

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Pickles!


At the end of January a friend called and asked if I'd be interested splitting case of cucumbers and getting together to make pickles.
Oh yea baby!!!  
Here's my portion of our canning.
  Yum!!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Apples, apples, apples

Janei, Lieschen, and I got together and had a little fun with apples
this week. We played with a couple of new recipes for bottling apples,
making pie filling, and apple jelly. Of course, Daniel & Janei's daughter
did an awesome job of coring and peeling all the apples.
Us moms struggled to keep pace with those two!


apple jelly

Adding apples to our stash of peaches and pears.
Canning with friends is so much better than canning alone.



Thursday, September 17, 2009

Peaches & Pears Galore

A friend told me about a great deal on fruit. So, I called my pal Charlotte and together we decided to hop in on the deal. We bottled, we jammed, we buttered, we wanted to cry but didn't, we laughed & joked, and overall had a good 'ol time. Our kids loved the play dates, our husbands supported our crazy idea (& even helped!), and now we get to enjoy the yummy 'fruits of our labors'!




Day 3: Peach Jam & Pear Butter
(I forgot to get a picture of what we did on days 1 & 2 at Charlotte's.

Hey Charlotte, wanna do it again next year?