canning and chopping and putting by. nothing smells better than a crock pot full of tomatoes simmering down for easy tomato sauce.
with all the hustle and bustle - getting ready for school, getting ready for the baby and spending my summer moments still settling into our house + routines - i almost didn't give myself the permission to can.
what was i thinking?! i decided a few days into august that it wouldn't do to not save something that we needed to fill up our pantry. part of what i love about summer and why i don't teach year round is that i use the summer days to shop local farmer's markets and orchard and then render all the special things we love to eat {click to read about my canning favorites!}. we would really miss those gems in the winter months if i skipped making at least something that we were low on.
so with my minimal time allowance i selected a few things to can... we were down to one jar of ketchup and one small jar of salsa. i knew what i needed to do {click on link to go to direct site for recipe i used}:
Roasted Red Pepper Ketchup
Chunky Homemade Salsa
Corn Salsa
and then i took all the extra tomatoes and made a little batch of easy tomato sauce.
time well spent. now i need to get back to lesson plans and organizing the diaper bag!
how about you? any perfect canning recipes that you just loved this year?
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