first wave of canning complete.  

the weather couldn’t be more agreeable.

hope to do more of the same in about 2 weeks, and so on.

stewed tomatoes, pepper varieties, and apple butter. 

pantry is stocking up.

Goodfellas made perfect ambience to scald, skin, and stew tomatoes.

poppin lids …

time to do a little canning.

made a pot of chili today.

cracked open my last jar of canned tomatoes from last season.  

cut some fresh cilantro from the garden.

yum

salsa time

fresh cilantro from my greenhouse.  picking from the garden during an ohio winter never gets old.  just cracked open the first jar of hungarian wax peppers that I canned this fall.  I love hearing the seal pop.

1 bushel homegrown Hungarian Wax peppers.

overnight salt bath

top jars to 1/2 from top w/veg oil

added garlic and oregano sprigs

boil method to perserve

5 jars canned.

making my grandma proud!

I ate my last garden tomato yesterday.  sigh…. .

took these pictures in late September.  I picked all the pretty tomatoes and came out with 7 jars of stewed.  Will wait for a bitter cold winter day to crack my first jar.  That will be terrific.