Yesterday afternoon I noticed that I had way to many tomatoes laying about and, rather than feed them to the compost pile, I’d crank up some salsa.
The problem is that they were not Roma tomatoes but rather Bonny Best and Besser (cherry sized). What the hell, it was bunches more work but I did want to see how it would work out.
So I pealed and cored roughly 10 cups (drained) added 2 medium bell peppers, 2 banana peppers, 10 jalapenos, 4 cloves of garlic, parsley, oregano, and 3 medium onion and cooked it for about 20 minutes in 1/2 cup of vinegar and 2 Tbls of lemon juice. Of course I used a little canning salt and ground black pepper. A 20 minute water bath was used to seal the jars.
This produced 5 pints of absolutely great salsa. I wolfed down an entire jar in one sitting and in the process devoured half a bag of Doritos. Doritos are made by Frito Lay and I’m in the market for many more bags this summer!
Roma’s are producing some ripe fruit so expect that I’ll be canning daily throughout this next week.