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"Terry Coombs" writes:
When you're overrun with tomatoes ? Make Salsa ! Freeze some too , but I'm
only freezing the Roma's . Here's my recipe , made it up after lo

I'm tempted to make salsa, but that would just lead to eating more
chips, which I really should not do. (Suddenly, I have a craving.)

My plan/hope is more pasta sauce. I got 10 quarts canned a couple
weekends ago. (Must be a couple weeks, the burns are all healed.)
I'm hoping for a second round. The vines are looking good, but
most of the fruit is still green.

The first batch started as about 5.5 gallons of tomatoes, down to
about 18-19 quarts in the pots. The result was sauce with meat.
I'm hoping the next batch will yield enough for a meat portion (for
lasagna) and a non-meat portion (for pizza).

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I know I need to see more
I need to see s'more, hear s'more
feel s'more. I gotta be s'more

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lid (Drew Lawson) wrote:

I'm tempted to make salsa, but that would just lead to eating more
chips, which I really should not do. (Suddenly, I have a craving.)

Make chips you can feel good about eating! I'm the odd man out in that I
generally don't much like tomato sauce (I don't put it on pasta, I don't
mind it on pizza, but I don't miss it on pizza either.)

When tomatoes overrun us (not this year) I run a dehydrator like a mad
man - and when apples over-run us, likewise. The tomatoes usually get
eaten straight, sometimes soaked in a bit of balsamic vinegar for some
uses.

Our command decision to stick with only cherry tomatoes (after a "try
all types" survey experiment) is partly based on easy of processing for
dehydrating (clean, slice in half, put skin-side down) - tomatoes that
are big enough to need to go in slices stick to the trays more
aggressively and also dry down to almost nothing in the middle slices.
Cherrys are also easier for us to get to harvest without defects
(splits, rot, etc.) and if one is affected, you can toss it and move to
a good one, rather than feeling the need to cut out the bad part and
salvage the rest of the large tomato (which is time-consuming when time
is short.)

"Sun-drying" is a nice idea for some other climate - here, you can
pretty much bet on mold and generally unsuitable weather, so we don't
even bother to try.

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Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by
Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away.

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Ecnerwal writes:
In article ,
lid (Drew Lawson) wrote:

I'm tempted to make salsa, but that would just lead to eating more
chips, which I really should not do. (Suddenly, I have a craving.)

Make chips you can feel good about eating!

That wasn't a "processed food is bad" shouldn't.
It was a "I don't need the carbs" shouldn't.

I could sneak some moderation in there if we entertained more, but
we don't. If the gym membership starts to get used more, I may
have an excuse for salsa next year.

When tomatoes overrun us (not this year) I run a dehydrator like a mad
man - and when apples over-run us, likewise. The tomatoes usually get
eaten straight, sometimes soaked in a bit of balsamic vinegar for some
uses.

That is on the list of things to try. Pasta sauce has priority, but
drying some has appeal.

"Sun-drying" is a nice idea for some other climate - here, you can
pretty much bet on mold and generally unsuitable weather, so we don't
even bother to try.

I'd have to protect them from critters large and small to do sun
drying. Not even the house cats bother the cheap dehydrator I have
(only used for spices as yet).


--
Drew Lawson

I only came in search of answers, never planned to sell my soul
I only came in search of something left that I could call my own

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lid (Drew Lawson) wrote:

That wasn't a "processed food is bad" shouldn't.
It was a "I don't need the carbs" shouldn't.

That wasn't a make your own (potato/corn) chips suggestions - it was a
make chips that _are_ tomatoes suggestion - though perhaps I separated
the "dry tomatoes" a bit too far for that to be obvious.

--
Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by
Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away.

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Ecnerwal writes:
In article ,
lid (Drew Lawson) wrote:

That wasn't a "processed food is bad" shouldn't.
It was a "I don't need the carbs" shouldn't.

That wasn't a make your own (potato/corn) chips suggestions - it was a
make chips that _are_ tomatoes suggestion - though perhaps I separated
the "dry tomatoes" a bit too far for that to be obvious.

Ah, I understand now.
I should probably try to get more sleep at night.


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Drew Lawson | Pass the tea and sympathy
| for he good old days are dead
| Let's raise a toast to those
| who best survived the life they led

On 8/28/2014 10:42 AM, Drew Lawson wrote:
In article
Ecnerwal writes:
In article ,
lid (Drew Lawson) wrote:

I'm tempted to make salsa, but that would just lead to eating more
chips, which I really should not do. (Suddenly, I have a craving.)

Make chips you can feel good about eating!

That wasn't a "processed food is bad" shouldn't.
It was a "I don't need the carbs" shouldn't.

I could sneak some moderation in there if we entertained more, but
we don't. If the gym membership starts to get used more, I may
have an excuse for salsa next year.

When tomatoes overrun us (not this year) I run a dehydrator like a mad
man - and when apples over-run us, likewise. The tomatoes usually get
eaten straight, sometimes soaked in a bit of balsamic vinegar for some
uses.

That is on the list of things to try. Pasta sauce has priority, but
drying some has appeal.

"Sun-drying" is a nice idea for some other climate - here, you can
pretty much bet on mold and generally unsuitable weather, so we don't
even bother to try.

I'd have to protect them from critters large and small to do sun
drying. Not even the house cats bother the cheap dehydrator I have
(only used for spices as yet).


22 years ago I bought a $16.00 American dehydrator at a Walmart. Bought
six more trays for it a year later, still got the thing and use it a
good bit to dehydrate the herbs and vegetables we grow. Nothing
automatic about it, just have to learn when to turn it off and to rotate
the trays periodically. Sure makes the house smell nice.

We never get enough tomatoes at this new home to dehydrate any.
Generally either the birds or the stink bugs get them first.

George

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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and
drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. -- Aristophanes