Tom8o's
9/24/08 - 4th Day - Late Afternoon. Sorry I haven't got the final announcements and "stuff" for the Bunky Awards posted. I'll get to it soon. We've been too busy canning tomatoes. We had a horrible garden this summer due to the drought, so we were not able to get much canned or stored, so Danielle and I went to Sligers Produce in Brownfield to buy some tomatoes. Sligers is an awesome little store that sells tons of fresh farm produce, much of it from area farms. They will even buy produce from small farms like ours, so we hope someday to sell them excess vegetables or fruit if we have any. Anyway, they had a huge shipment of beautiful farm fresh tomatoes at $1.49 a lb. On Monday I asked the lady if I could get a bulk discount since we were buying 75 lbs. of tomatoes and she sold them to us for $17.95 a flat (of 25 lbs.) which comes out to about .72 a lb. which is about half price! We immediately started canning tomatoes, and yesterday I sent Danielle back for another 100 lbs. and the owner of Sligers sold them to us for $15.00 a flat (.60 a lb.!). So, as you can expect, we have been busy today making spaghetti sauce and salsa. Yesterday we canned about 42 jars of tomatoes, and we are still going at it today. We have spaghetti sauce in the canner now, and after supper we will start making salsa. It's all hands on deck for this one...
Nice, beautiful, red tomatoes...
And lots of them...
Sarah says - "These are some nice tomatoes!"
Robert standing on a stool first drops the tomatoes in boiling water for a bit, then puts them in cool water so the skins come off easily...
Jennifer carefully chopping up some fresh basil from our garden...
Jennifer skins the tomatoes and Tracy chops them up...
My job... chopping up onions which had been carefully stored from our spring garden...
The Product... some jars of spaghetti sauce...
An even more satisfying product. Here is Danielle with a full quart of dried ground basil from our garden. Do you know how much basil it takes to make a full quart once it is dried and ground? A LOT!
Now to the Salsa!
Semper Tejas,
Michael Bunker
Nice, beautiful, red tomatoes...
And lots of them...
Sarah says - "These are some nice tomatoes!"
Robert standing on a stool first drops the tomatoes in boiling water for a bit, then puts them in cool water so the skins come off easily...
Jennifer carefully chopping up some fresh basil from our garden...
Jennifer skins the tomatoes and Tracy chops them up...
My job... chopping up onions which had been carefully stored from our spring garden...
The Product... some jars of spaghetti sauce...
An even more satisfying product. Here is Danielle with a full quart of dried ground basil from our garden. Do you know how much basil it takes to make a full quart once it is dried and ground? A LOT!
Now to the Salsa!
Semper Tejas,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 9/24/2008 02:07:00 PM
5 Comments:
Well, it's true: many hands make light work! It sure must help when everyone is assigned a different job to do. I've really enjoyed this post, and the spagetti sauce looks delicious. At my husband's request, I made stewed tomatoes this year, for the first time--I think I'll post some pictures of that, too. It was good to see you all working together, and I love all of the pictures!
With that title, at first I thought maybe "a retrospective of Tom Cruise, the 80s", was forthcoming....thankfully it wasn't. :-)
Great prices for great tom8os, what a blessing, glad it went so well!
Bill
Wonderful looking tomatoes at a good price! How nice everyone works together on a big project like that!! Great looking spaghetti sauce. Nice you had the stored onions and dried basil too! Yes, thatsa lota basil!! Thanks for sharing all the nice pictures of the project. I'm sure it will all taste wonderful to your tastebuds this winter!
I hauled in a 6 gallon pail of mainly San Marzano (romas) and other tomatoes out of my garden tonight and have some sauce brewing upstairs almost ready to can. The rest will get done tomorrow.
Good night!
Beth
Your canned tomatoe sauce looks great. I am about to dry my herbs as well. I will miss using it fresh from the garden. I enjoy seeing the pics and your family working together.
Have a blessed Lords Day
Debylin
Hi there ~ I came to you through a link on Dawns blog. Anyways I just did my tomatoes today. I cooked my tomatos in the large crock pot over night with water,basil,onion and 3 chicken boilion cubes. My tomatoes and basil were from my garden. I cooked it all night and this morning I picked out the skins and fed them to the chickens,then took my electric hand blender and made a puree sauce. I then decided to freeze it in small containers.
Peace in Christ,
Georgiann
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