What have you canned or preserved today?

[seedcrazy]

I did 8 jars of salsa (I use Annie's Salsa recipe which can be found by googling) and 6 jars of chili sauce. Tonight when I get home from work I've GOT to use up another huge bowl of roma tomatoes and want to do spaghetti sauce but I have yet to ever get the taste right, anyone have a good spaghetti sauce recipe that is tried and true?

 

[ninnymary]

I roast my tomatoes, jalapenos, and garlic on a comal (griddle pan).

Here are 5 pints from 2 batches of roasted tomatoes.

Forgot to mention that this is how I make my salsa. I need to practice on making my pictures smaller. I don't know which I'm supposed to click on! Ugh! computers!

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Your salsa's lovely Mary! And I think your pictures are just fine. Big is good.

 

[seedcrazy]

Yes it looks yummy, do you skin and then drain your chopped tomatoes? I'm assuming so but was just wondering.

 

[SuperChemicalGirl]

I'm having difficulty getting seals on my widemouth quart jars. I processed 3 (I know, I'm a slacker) jars yesterday and got zero seals. The 1 inch headspace wasn't enough and 2 of the jars barfed some tomatoes out, obviously not forming a seal. I reprocessed them today with new lids and only got 2/3 to seal. No jar barf this time. What gives??! Any clues? I'm pressure canning, new jars.

 

[seedcrazy]

Not sure what you were canning but did you run something around the inside to get air out?

 

[SuperChemicalGirl]

Yes, I did. I'm canning tomatoes in their own juice, cold pack.

 

[ninnymary]

seedcrazy, I just throw everything into the blender, then I add chopped cilantro. This is how my grandmother from Mexico used to do it.

Mary

 

[The Mama Chicken]

Spicy pickled carrots this weekend. I put a picture and the recipe up on my blog if anyone wants to see.

http://mamachickensays.blogspot.com/2012/08/spicy-pickled-carrots.html

 

[lesa]

Supergirl, if you don't let the pressure come down slowly in that canner, it will mess up your seals. Maybe that happened? You really don't need to pressure can tomato products. I have never had a jar not seal, in a waterbath canner.