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Homemade Bottled Spaghetti Sauce!

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I think that I am done with all of my canning for this year.  I have done Blackberry Jam, Frozen corn, Spaghetti Sauce, and bottled peaches.

My favorite thing to have on hand is this wonderful spaghetti sauce.  A lot of people bottle tomatoes and then add a dry mix later to make their sauce, but I love the taste of this already made spaghetti sauce with all those wonderful flavors cooked together for hours and blended together!  I use this for spaghetti, of course, but also ravioli, tortellini, lasagna, and it makes a great pizza sauce! Continue reading →

Just Peachy!

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I went out last Sat. night and noticed that my peaches were ready to pick!  The reason I knew they were ready was because the birds had started eating them!  I was bound and determined not to let the birds win, so my husband and I went out and picked them all.  This tree is only 3 years old and it was loaded this year.  I should have thinned them out a little more because they were not really big, but that is ok, because they have a fantastic flavor!I bottled peaches on Monday and I love to see all the bottles lined up on my cupboard before I put them away in the pantry.  I think that they look so pretty.Then I had to make this yummy fresh peach dessert.

I’m in Heaven!Here is the recipe, if you have any peaches around, you should seriously make this dessert!

Tomorrow I am going to flash freeze the rest of the peaches on a cookie sheet so that I can make smoothies with them!  Yum!

Bottling Tomatoes

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My sister and I went to dad’s to help him bottle tomatoes.  He grows a large garden every summer with corn, tomatoes, peppers, asperagus, rhubarb, and now has started berry bushes. He  usually has enough for all of us to bottle.!  So that is a pretty good trade-off for us anyway, he does all the work in the garden and we spend a morning with him canning!.

First you start with some good ripe tomatoes, picked right fresh out of the garden.

After you wash them you put them into scalding water till the skins split, then the skins will just slip right off.  No messy peeling.

Then cut up the tomatoes and add a little water, sugar and salt and let them simmer for 5-10 mins

Then put the tomatoes into clean canning jars with lemon juice, add lids and process for 45 mins.

Then just have a little fun!

Thanks dad for all you do for us!