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| Amy at step 1 - heating tomatoes so skins would slip off. |
My daughter, Amy, and son-in-law, Dan, are on a mission. They are starting on September 22 (the fall equinox) to eat only what they can find within a 100 mile radius of their home in Seattle for one full year. You can follow their quest to become "locovores" on Seasonally Seattle.
Since they couldn't face a week without tomatoes, and tomatoes aren't available locally year round, today they brought two flats of tomatoes to our house to learn the art of canning.
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| Step 2 - Dan peeling and paring and packing tomatoes in jars |
Part of the fun is working together to produce the beautiful jars of bright red tomatoes.
Follow Amy and Dan's progress on their blog, http://seasonallyseattle.blogspot.com where they will share sources, budgets, recipes and more.
Well, good luck to them. I can't imagine going without bananas. How do you get them locally? Or oranges or lemons? There have to be exceptions.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I just stick whole tomatoes in the freezer. Much easier than canning. But those jars do look beautiful.
I agree about bananas - chocolate? Yikes! I'm too old to deprive myself of that much even though I do try to eat what is fresh and in season wherever I happen to be. I think they do have a couple of exceptions they allow and Amy chose lemons as she cooks with them extensively.
ReplyDeleteI really miss canning tomaotes. Glad Amy is doing this. Thanks for visiting my blog!
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