I think I just picked my last tomatoes of the year. And my last strawberry. It is November. Thank ya, Texas.
Know what I've discovered in the last year? That we eat a LOT of tomatoes. It's astonishing. From raw in salads and on tacos and sandwiches, to stewed in chili and soups, to crushed in goulash, pasta sauce and salsa- we know how to massacre a tomato crop.
Which is all fine and good. Except by August, I was so sick of canning tomatoes that I started freezing them. Then our small freezer got so full that we went and bought a chest freezer. Now IT is so full that I'm giving frozen quarts of stewed tomatoes away and I've gone back to canning them.
What an incredible problem blessing to have, right?
I can remember writing Proverbs 14:23 as a handwriting exercise in second grade: All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. Today I would write: All hard work brings lots of tomatoes, but mere talk leads only to paying $2/can at the store so I guess it's worth it if you don't go crazy first. Good thing I didn't write the Bible.
we had no garden this year. or last. so we bought tomatoes at the farmer's market or grocer. paid a tremendous $ for the heirloom variety but ohhh my goodness the flavor! your crop is inspiring. :) love tomatoes...
we had no garden this year. or last. so we bought tomatoes at the farmer's market or grocer. paid a tremendous $ for the heirloom variety but ohhh my goodness the flavor! your crop is inspiring. :) love tomatoes...
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that tomatoes could be frozen. Our tomatoes rotted before we could use them all. I will remember this next summer. Thanks for the tip!
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