Thursday, September 6, 2012

Tomato Days 2012 - Paste, Sauce, Taco Sauce



131 lbs tomatoes total  (~25-30 lbs per 5 gallon bucket of romas)
It took around 7 hours to get all of the tomatoes washed, seeded, cooked down, run through the food mill and back into the pot to cook down.
We made 7 pints of sauce (thickened tomatoes, nothing added)
We made 32.5 jam jars of paste
And, 25 jam jars of taco sauce.

Taco Sauce:
3 qts sauce
3 cups cider vinegar
3/4 cup sugar
3 Tbs kosher salt
3 tsp cayenne pepper
6 Tbs chile powder
2 tsp Frank's Red Hot
1 Tbs ancho chile powder
1 Tbs smoked Spanish Paprika
1 Tbs cumin
1 Tbs garlic powder

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Spicy Pickles



Cucumbers sat in brine with peppercorns, salt, dill, ...  for 2 weeks.  Sliced into spears.  Water, vinegar, salt canning liquid was heated.  Garlic, sliced serrano peppers and volcano peppers, peppercorns, mustard seed, coriander seed, cumin seed added to each jar with cayenne pepper and homemade ground chili peppers.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Kimchi

Salsa Verde

Roasted Red Pepper Jam

Apricot Habanero Jam

Sundried Tomato Jam

Pickled Mushrooms

Balsamic Onions

Peaches

Apple Sauce

Apricot Preserves

Pickled Chipotle Peppers

Pickled Pepper Mix