tomatoes – Michael's Place

Tomato sauce

Now that we’ve had our first major picking of tomatoes it’s time to make and can tomato sauce. What we make is a thickened sauce with only tomatoes. That way when we go to use them we can alter the sauce as necessary. So, how many quarts did we get from 23 pounds of romaContinue reading “Tomato sauce”

The garden: part-3

Yesterday we did some canning. Susan made zucchini pickles and I canned pickled jalapeños. This is the result of day-1 canning, plus our first eggplant of the season. SLicing tomatoes and Roma tomatoes waiting for processing into sauce. But the green beans and most of the cherry tomatoes are for eating later. By the way,Continue reading “The garden: part-3”

How does the garden grow?

Somehow being away for ten days has resulted in a garden bounty. Lots of tomatoes (cherry and slicing tomatoes), jalapeños, the first green beans and several very large zucchini. But even better is the huge number of roma tomatoes that will be picked later today. Also I now have over two dozen figs ripening. MakingContinue reading “How does the garden grow?”

The urban gardener

The Roma tomatoes are starting to ripen. The first few went in to sandwiches. But now there are enough for making sauce. As is typical the herbs are doing well. It’s nice when you can walk outside and find what you need for a recipe in the garden. Pretty much what we have is thyme,Continue reading “The urban gardener”