New Garden Beds

 

Prepping and planting

 Prepped beds and planed tomatoes 

Change of plan

 

Seed staring

 

2023 plan

 

Growing Calendar

 

Started Onions 2023

 

Turkey stock 2023

 

Turkey stock 

Put carcass in the pressure canner for 3 hrs @ 15 lb to extract everything.  Strain bring to a boil put in jars and process in canner for 20 min pints 25 min quotes @10 psi.

Onions

 Pulled all the onions.  

Tomato Soup

 Had a few tomatoes left and made them into soup.

Tomato Soup

2 Pints 

Ingredients

5 lbs tomatoes

1/2 cup yellow onion (diced)

3 Tbsp sugar

1 tsp dried basil

2 bay leaves

1 tsp granulated garlic

1½ tsp salt

1 tsp celery seed

½ tsp black pepper

lemon juice or citric acid 

Instructions

Quarter tomatoes and dice the onion. Place them in a large soup pot. Cook, uncovered, for 30 min – 1 hour, stirring occasionally, until tomatoes are very soft.

Remove tomatoes from the heat and let them cool slightly. Working in batches, transfer the warm tomatoes to a food processor, blender, or food mill to puree. If desired, press the tomato puree through a fine-mesh sieve to remove any seeds and skins.

Pour the smooth tomato puree back into the large soup pot. (Using a very wide-bottomed pot will give you more surface area as you reduce tomatoes, making the process take less time.)

Add  sugar, herbs, and spices. (Everything EXCEPT the lemon juice or citric acid.)

Bring seasoned tomato puree to a simmer. Cook tomato soup until it has reduced to the thickness you desire. 

Add 1 Tbsp of lemon juice to each pint jar or 2 Tbsp lemon juice to each quart jar. (Or ¼ tsp citric acid to each pint and ½ tsp citric acid to each quart.)

Fill jars with the soup, leaving ½ inch of headspace. (I like to use a canning funnel to reduce spills and messes.)

Wipe the rims clean of any spilled soup. Then cover the jars with fresh lids and rings.

Process your canned tomato soup in a boiling water bath canner for 40 minutes for pints or quarts. 

Last of the Scorpion peppers

Started The ferment of the last of the scorpion peppers. 

Hopefully I can keep the plant alive in the basement until spring. 

Scorpion Venom Hot Sauce 2022

Ingredients: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers (fermented), cayenne peppers, Vinegar, lime juice, Salt  

Tomato Sauce Italian style 2022

 

Salsa

Salsa from here

 Ingredients

9 cups peeled and chopped tomatoes (they must be peeled first, )

2 1/2 cups chopped green bell peppers

2 1/2 cups chopped white onion

4 medium jalapeños, chopped (omitted) 

8 large cloves garlic, chopped

6 teaspoon canning salt

1 cup white vinegar

1 (12-ounce) can tomato paste

Remove the skins from the tomatoes

Place all of the ingredients in a large pot and simmer for 20-30 minutes, until thickened and cooked.

 Process for 30 minutes using a water bath or 15 min at 10 lbs in a presser canner.

Tomato Sauce

Heat tomatoes and run through squeezo 

Add 1ne tablespoon of bottled lemon juice or 1/4 teaspoon citric acid per pint and 2 tablespoons of bottled lemon juice or 1/2 teaspoon of citric acid per Quart 

Process both pint and quart jars for 15 minutes.  It is important to maintain 10 lbs of pressure the entire time.  If the pressure dips below 10 lbs

Tomatos

 Whole or Halved Tomatoes (packed in water)

Quantity: An average of 21 pounds is needed per canner load of 7 quarts; an average of 13 pounds is needed per canner load of 9 pints. A bushel weighs 53 pounds and yields 15 to 21 quarts-an average of 3 pounds per quart.

Procedure for hot or raw tomatoes filled with water in jars: Wash tomatoes. Dip in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds or until skins split; then dip in cold water. Slip off skins and remove cores. Leave whole or halve. Add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to jars (See acidification directions). Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart to the jars, if desired.

Raw pack -- Heat water, for packing tomatoes, to boiling. Fill hot jars with prepared raw tomatoes, leaving ½-inch headspace. Cover tomatoes in the jars with boiling water, leaving ½-inch headspace.

Hot pack -- Put prepared tomatoes in a large saucepan and add enough water to completely cover them. Boil tomatoes gently for 5 minutes. Fill hot jars with hot tomatoes leaving ½-inch headspace. Add cooking liquid to the jars to cover the tomatoes, leaving ½-inch headspace.

Adjust lids and process 

Pints or Quarts 10 min 10 lbs 

Pumpkin

Pumpkin - Cubed

Wash, remove seeds, cut into 1-inch- wide slices, and peel. Cut flesh into 1-inch cubes. Boil 2 minutes in water. 

Caution: Do not mash or puree. 

Fill jars with cubes and cooking liquid, leaving 1-inch headspace.

Adjust lids and process

Pints 55 min 10 lbs

Quarts 90 min 10 lbs