Tomato (and Cranberry) Day

 Today is TOMATO and Cranberry DAY!

I'm finally going to process

those tomatoes that have been

sitting on the washer/dryer

for a couple of weeks.

There are still a few that aren't

ripe, but I'm done waiting.

I started by trimming and cutting

all of those tomatoes.

Filled my biggest dough bowl.

Ran them through the food processor.

I did a round using the dicer.

But decided the result was just as good

and the mess was WAAY less

if I just pureed them with the S blade.

Then I pushed them through a fine mesh

sieve and got "most" of the juice out

and was left with lots of "guts".

Ended up with a nice pot of juice

on the stove simmering down.

I sauted some onions and put in some

of the peppers I froze before.

Added a BUNCH of seasonings and

about a third cup of brown sugar.

WHY does processing food

make such a huge mess?????

But it's all cleaned up now.

It felt like it took forever,

but actually only barely 2 hours.

There's a bag of yummy treats for the pigs.

I'm going to add them to the box

of pumpkins and head out to the farm.

They are delivering our wood order.

I'll probably miss the delivery,

they are probably there now...

but I want to check on progress.

And then I'll come back and jar up

the spaghetti sauce and get it into

the pressure canner.

I also picked up 4 bags of cranberries

at the store on Tuesday.

So those went through the food processor

first with just a slicer blade.

They are in the freeze dryer.

Should be done sometime tomorrow.

YUM!

I also bought a bag of real oranges

and I'm going to try my hand at

real cranberry sauce.

Although I'm a fan of the jellied

stuff that looks like the can

when it comes out.

Soni suggested I put some orange zest

in my bread when I make it with 

cranberries and pecans.

So... a bag of oranges it is!

(They didn't have any singles...)

Ok.

Got to run!!!!

Happy... Thursday?

Sheesh.