Canning Salsa Recipe

This is the canning salsa recipe I have been using for a couple of years now. In order to can salsa you must have the correct balance of acid to avoid contamination. Although this recipe has hot peppers in it, it is not what I would call a "hot salsa". I would categorize it as a "medium salsa".

Canning Salsa

5 Cups peeled, chopped tomatoes (I use Amish Paste Tomatoes)

3/4 Cup seeded, chopped green peppers

1/3 Cup seeded, chopped hot peppers ( I use serrano & jalapeno peppers)

1 1/4 Cups Chopped onion

1 Teaspoon salt

2-3 Cloves garlic, minced

1 1/2 Cups cider vinegar

Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Pour hot mixture into jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Adjust lids; process 30 minutes in boiling water bath. Makes about 3 pints.

Enjoy!

Harvest Monday.........Seeing RED & Green!

It was another great week for tomatoes! I harvested 34.75 lbs. this week! Although the harvests are abundant, the tomato plants themselves do not seem to be growing much. They also have more yellow leaves then I would like and some of the flowers have died. I think that it may be due our excessive heat and lack of rain. Our weather is supposed to cool down a bit, to more seasonal temperatures this week...hopefully that will help.

I am starting to harvest some hot and spice peppers. I am trying to leave the bell peppers until they turn their designated colors of red, orange or yellow. The Alpine strawberries are starting to produce nice size fruits and the cantaloupe and muskmelons are getting bigger!

The cucumbers are coming in like crazy. I harvested almost 11 lbs of them this week alone. I started a small batch of dill pickles yesterday. It will take about three weeks until they are ready to be processed.

This is what the kitchen island looked like this week!

As soon as I would get it almost cleared off....there would be more!

The Largest Tomato - a Brandywine

1 lb. 7 oz.

The Ugliest Tomato - also a Brandywine

The Prettiest Tomatoes - White Tomesol

The canning of Tomatoes

I have been canning tomatoes plain and have also been making salsa.

A sampling of the cucumbers harvested this week.

Dill Pickles

Harvest Total - 49.875 lbs.

Cabbage - 2 lbs.
Cucumbers - 10.9375 lbs.
Eggplant - 6 oz.
Onions - 12 oz.
Peppers - 11 oz.
Strawberries - 6 oz.
Tomatoes - 34.75 lbs.

Stop by Daphne's Dandelions the host of Harvest Monday to see more harvests!

Garden Update

The garden is growing like crazy. It took me a couple of days after coming home to get it under control. The beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and cantaloupe had grown so much that I could not get between some of the beds. The excessive heat we are still having made it difficult for me to go out and take care of everything in one day. But, it's under control now!

I harvested over 7 lbs of cucumbers in two days after throwing out at least a dozen that got too big while we were away. The Alpine Strawberries are starting to produce very nice size fruit. It's hard for me to keep track of the strawberries harvested. My "Little Garden Helper" tends to wander over there and eat them.

I finally harvest a head of Savoy Cabbage. It weighed 2 lbs. There are two other heads in the garden that  are much firmer, but not as big in size. We will see how they do.

I also harvested a couple of Hot Cherry, Jalapeno & Hungarian Paprika peppers on Wednesday. I have the paprika peppers hanging up to dry. I am excited to see how the ground paprika turns out when they are dry.

The tomato haul for the week will be announced on Harvest Monday!!

Cabbage, Peppers, Cucumbers & Strawberries from Wednesday.

Cantaloupe are starting to grow!

The Lone Artichoke is coming along nicely.

I am hoping that the other plants start to produce as well.

Harvest Monday

Well, we are home. I didn't think we would be home until later today or tomorrow morning. The garden has grown so much in the past 8 days. I did mange to pick some tomatoes and an eggplant this morning. There are a lot of other veggies to harvest. However, I will do that later today. It was quite a week for tomatoes. 28.75 lbs harvested!!!

A sampling of this weeks harvest

Harvest Total: 30.25 lbs.

Herbs: 4 oz.

Cucumber: 5 oz.

Eggplannt: 8 poz.

Onions: 6 oz.

Tomatoes: 28.75 lbs.

Stop by Daphne's Dandelions, the host of Harvest Monday, to see more harvests!

Harvest Monday

This week's harvest was mostly tomatoes. I also harvested a couple of bunches of celery and 3 green peppers that we need for our week at the lake. Have a nice week everyone...you may hear from me and you may not.

Harvest Total: 6.0625 lbs.

Tomatoes: 3 lbs. 6 oz.

Peppers: 13 oz.

Celery: 1 lb. 14 oz.

Stop by Daphne's Dandelions, the host of Harvest Monday, to see other harvests.