What are you canning now?

[marymac]

I got my pint jars at Ace.... Yipee!! That price was hard to beat. here Lowes doesn't sell canning supplies either. I am thrilled to get them at this price!

 

[Olive Hill]

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When deciding on peeling vs. not peeling, your real decision needs to be about do you like a smooth sauce or chunky sauce. If you like chunky, peeling is your better option because you won't be liquifiing the peels (like you would be doing when putting the toms in the blender for smooth). When the toms are just chopped with the peels left on, they come off in a noticable piece and remain in the sauce. Make sense?
I like a chunky sauce, hence I spend the time to peel. Honeslty, Romas are so easy to peel it takes no time. If you are using any other variety you will have a more difficult time.

How so? If you're blanching any tomato variety properly the skins will slip right off. I grow 10+ varieties of tomatoes every year -- and different ones each year -- none are more difficult than any other.

 

[KenK]

I agree that none of them are hard to peel and I always do. Never fooled much with the Roma tomatoes much but I had some this year. As I was peeling them I figured out that I could pick one up in my left hand and cut the stem end off and then just pop the whole tomato out of the skin, kind of like squeezing a grape.

 

[KDbeads]

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Got mine too!!! Last ones on the shelf

 

[KenK]

I've got enough hot peppers to make another batch of jelly or relish. Having a hard time talking myself into it. Supposed to rain Monday so maybe I'll get bored and do it.

 

[cbohn80]

peach jelly, hot sauce, pickles and hot pepper jelly

 

[Opa]

Just finished my third and final picking of green beans. I've already put up 110 pints and with todays 38 quarts I think we have enough green beans. The plants were still blooming so we probably could have gotten another picking but I tore the plants out so I would be tempted to can more.

 

[vfem]

Oooh... I found my jam reviewed on this blog!!

http://weheartthis.com/2011/09/02/etsy-4-for-friday-a-trip-to-the-farmers-market/

 

[KDbeads]

7 pints of muscadine jelly. It's just the first little bit I've picked

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

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