It’s like…. Once you’ve had it… you can never go back.
I’m just not able to prod myself into buying one more tin can filled with tomatoes - much less - tomato sauce or paste.
I can taste the metal from the tin can.
My efforts are spoiled to only my pure - homemade - Tomato Sauce. With my sauce - there is no need for paste.
I managed to get a total 9 half-pints of sauce made this go-round.
This batch was concocted by a mixture of sources - 5 lbs. of beautiful " Roma " Tomatoes purchased from Horn of Plenty in Maryville - about 1 lb. of " Amish Paste " Tomatoes from out in the yard - and 9 pints of canned Tomatoes from 2009.
Our efforts with growing tomatoes this year - FAIL. They were put out there in that fenced nightmare that was intended to be our garden.
I refuse to step another foot inside those boundaries. Unless I have to go in and chase one of The Girls.
Our garden has now become “ Heaven “ for The Girls.
Nooooo. We haven’t cut their heads off and buried them out there. But they think we have. We turn them loose out there during Dwayne’s days off - after everybody has dropped their eggs.
They aren’t the only ones losing their minds around here, either.
It’s been hot weather - which means - Skink Season.
( If you click on the pictures - you can see larger ones. Wowwww! How cool is that!! )
No typo - Skink.
Zucker flat-dab loses it. Loses his mind. Loses his hearing. Just - loses it.
And he’s teaching Carlie bad habits. Take a look.
You can see a brown patch beside the brick and hose. By the time I began shooting this - Carlie had already flipped the brick over - with her nose.
“ Sexy Feet - Cow With No Legs - Spicy Bitch “ has the strength of a cow.
And yes - she’s managed to steal a few Jalapeno Peppers out of my bucket this year, as well.
Dog is just - weird.
Enjoy!
2 comments:
I'm going to be getting some tomatoes from a guy in town, since we didn't have enough from our few plants, so am hoping to make a bunch of stuff with them again this year. Would love to know exactly how you do your paste, and sauce for that matter, in case I have enough to make some myself. I need to make paste as soon as possible, cause I need some for the salsa recipe I found....so I may be attempting some of that this week and any pointers you could give me would be appreciated! :)
Course if you have a good salsa recipe send that my way too...cause at this point I'm still kinda up in the air with how I'll do mine. :)
I made stewd tomatoes and tomato sauce thisyear. I am going to try to buy some more to make more. My tomatoes were abundant but they stakes didnt hold So I am going for Panels for my tomaotes next year! This gardening things is such a learning in progress thing! Thank you for your kind comments on my blog earlier! They were very much appreciated.
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