We tried canning for the first time this summer. Our first adventure was making salsa. One beautiful, warm, summer morning (I know these are already getting hard to remember) we went to the local farmer's market and purchased all the veggies we would need for salsa making.
Green peppers, onion, cilantro, tomatoes, banana peppers, jalapeños.
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| First we had to blanch the tomatoes. Take the skin off the tomatoes by shortly boiling and then putting it directly into ice cold water. |
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| Lots and lots of dicing! |
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| We boiled all the chopped ingredients down to the consistency we wanted. |
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| Then into the hot water canning bath they go! |
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| Our finished salsa! We enjoyed it so much we ended up making another batch just a couple weeks later. |
We also canned peaches. We purchased these at our local farmer's market as well.
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| The peaches also needed to be blanched and cut prior to being canned. |
We have now created quite a stock pile of canned items. We have canned salsa, peaches, pears, asparagus, carrots, black beans, and green beans.
