Canning Day

Our beautiful Bounty

Today is officially "Canning Day" at my house. We woke early and started with tomatoes. We decided to do only tomato paste and then, as we need items, we would use the paste and build on it, versus having a zillion cans of sauce and no ketchup. It seemed like a great idea. However, after reducing down the sauce or hours. We opted to do all sauce and a couple jars of paste.

We used the "no mess" tomato mill and once again made a gigantic mess. Still fun, but so messy!  We have a new pressure canner, so we were excited to try new recipes. We were not found of the vinegar/acid that we had to add for the water bath canning method. So we ended up doing sauce, paste, stewed tomatoes, tomato soup and salsa. I am so excited to have so many wonderful canned goods for the winter.

See, No Mess ?!!?!?!?

All in all, it took just over 12 hours and we are nowhere near done. It is definitely a labor of love. I did learn that I LOVE our new pressure canner.

Tomorrow I think we will go pick raspberries. Seems like that would be perfect to go with our blueberries. God has blessed us with so much and we are grateful. Just 9 days to deer season (archery). Hoping that we will get some meat for the freezer as well.

Wishing everyone a blessed day.