2014 Garden Update

The garden is quieting down unfortunately, but before we totally call it quits...

3 different kinds of heirloom tomatoes

Dilly bean canning

And...fruit salad!

Preserving the Harvest

With about 10lbs of Roma tomatoes, and more coming every week, I figured it was time to start canning! It's not the most fun process to stand over a hot stove for 2 hours on a late August day with 3 burners going. I did some dicey things like carrying pots of scalding hot water around the kitchen and nearly burning myself. Also, theres always the fear that I'll  give someone botulism if I don't do it correctly, but in the end, when I take them out to cool and I start hearing the lids pop (indicating they've been sealed) it's a great feeling! And afterwards when I use them on pizzas it's an even better feeling! And when no one dies from consuming them, I'm ecstatic and declare the process a success!

Dilly Beans!

Last summer I canned several jars of dilly beans. I love these! They're spicy and pickled. And go very well as a side dish to meat or in a salad like this. We just used our last jar in a salad and I can't wait to jar up an even larger batch this summer!