Cross it off the list!

Cross it off the list!

A few weeks ago I started my 30 for 30 list that can be found here. I came up with some stuff that I wanted to do in the next couple of year. One of the things on my list was to can something the old fashioned way. My mother of course reads my blog and jumped right in to help. We decided to can some salsa. Let me tell you this is a decent amount of work. My hat is off to people who do this for more than one veggie. We decided we wanted to make some salsa to keep. My mom went to the farmers auction and bought massive amount of tomato's. A ten pound crate was 3 dollars!  SO CHEAP!Can you believe that!? Grocery stores make me sick ( I'll save that for another rant).

So I set to work cutting the top core off a load of Roma tomatoes. Then we processed them

Then we added processed onions

Then a lot of cilantro

lime juice

bell peppers

a few hot peppers

salt

I decided to do half the batch with corn and black beans! nom nom

I don't think we really measured anything we just kept adding and mixing to the pot till it looked like salsa. Then we would taste it and add a little more of something else.



Here is the batch with all the ingredients!





Before- during- after (span of 4 hourish)




The finished product!



I was alot of work but the salsa turned out so good! I think it is better than what we normally buy in the store. Now I have plenty of salsa to last for several months.

While I was inside slaving away over a hot stove I noticed one of my fur babies was missing. I went outside to track down the little baby and what did I find. A very guilty WET DOG. She had taken it upon herself to walk down to the pond and do a little swimming! BAD DOG. She was so stinking cute and guilty that I didn't really have it in me to be mad at her. I mean how often does a city dog get to swim in a pond. I am sure the temptation was just to great for a golden retriever!

Have a Happy Monday everyone!