There are only two people in our household that enjoy eating fresh tomatoes, but even they are getting tomatoed out when it comes to the Yellow Pear tomatoes! They were starting to accumulate, so I decided to make a small batch of tomato sauce.
Along with the Yellow Pear tomatoes, there were about five or six Chocolate Cherry tomatoes, and two Cup of Moldova tomatoes on hand, so they wall went into the pot together!
Being so small, they got mushy very quickly, so it wasn’t long before I was running them through the finer colander we have. Some of the seeds still get through, but no one seems to mind that. If I were making a tomato paste, though, I’d run it through a sieve as well, to get rid of the seeds.
After straining the tomatoes, I fried up some finely chopped onions and garlic in some olive oil until soft, then added the strained tomatoes back to the pot. For seasoning, I added salt and pepper, a bit of sugar, and a bay leaf, then cooked it down until slightly thicker.
It wasn’t quite enough sauce to fill a 750ml jar.
What a colour!
Not too long ago, I found some large mouth screw on jar lids – usually I can just find regular mouth. Since this is going into the fridge, I much prefer to use the screw on lid, rather than the canning lids and rings. I’ll have to pick up more of these when I find them again. Most of the canning jars we have are wide mouth jars.
Not being a fan of tomatoes in general, I didn’t actually taste this to see how it turned out. I’ll have to get my husband or daughter to do a taste test and let me know what they think!
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I loved that you canned it without tasting! Wish I lived closer!!
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š With something like tomatoes, I sort of have to. They don’t make me gag, like fresh tomatoes do, and I do like them when used as an ingredient, but to just eat a spoonful… *shudder*
I am going to trust the recipes I used as a guide are actually tasty, and work with these varieties of tomatoes!
It would be awesome if we lived closer to each other!
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You can always adjust if needed while you cook!
If I was closer I’d plant just for critters!!
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Planting for critters is part of our plan! Especially for when we get chickens.
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Oh, that will be fun! One of the former boxers had chickens. I loved hearing about when they’d randomly roost in the trees!!!
I’ll have to get your address to send you this 3D printed chicken arms!!
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3D printed… chicken arms??? š
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Google it. I like the green ones the most
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Wonderful!!!
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Thank you!
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Looks awesome!
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Thank you!
So far, I’ve tried it by adding a couple of spoonfuls into a small soup. It really added a nice zing to it!
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That sounds delicious! Glad it turned out good š
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