2023 canning and pickling

[smurfy]

16 qts garlic dill pickles.

[leech~~]

On 7/8/2023 at 12:32 PM, smurfy said:

16 qts garlic dill pickles.

Do you do any hot ones? 

[smurfy]

On 7/9/2023 at 4:19 PM, leech~~ said:

Do you do any hot ones? 

i usually do, but didnt this year. when i did i put thia chili peppers in with the pickles. i'm sharing these with my stepdad.......he likes my pickles!!!!

 

i'm out of the thia peppers......next year i'm going to put Jalepenos in them!!!!!

[smurfy]

by the way......i take it the rims and lids pass your approval!!!!!!!!!!!

[leech~~]

23 minutes ago, smurfy said:

by the way......i take it the rims and lids pass your approval!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, some of the back ones look a little beat up, and the tops look dusty!

[smurfy]

Managed to get enough cucumbers to do a 2 gallon jar of these. 

[leech~~]

3 hours ago, smurfy said:

Managed to get enough cucumbers to do a 2 gallon jar of these. 

Is this a cold pickling process?  2 gals you say!

[smurfy]

Could be called that. Brine is not heated nor is it sealed. Just keep it in the fridge.  I've had them through March with no issues.

[smurfy]

Did up some sweet corn for the winter, I don't do canned vegetables.

[smurfy]

 15 pints of salsa!

[fishingstar]

looking good!! we are going to make pizza sauce tomorrow. Picked 3 5 gallon pails of tomatoes this past week.

[smurfy]

Summer cukes per ma's recipe.

[smurfy]

Got a bunch of cukes from the granddaughter. Turned them into there!!

[smurfy]

not sure how that happened.

[Ronnie D]

Nord giardiniera, couldn't find any good beets for purple Smurfy's at the market 

Edited August 28, 2023 by Ronnie D

[smurfy]

7 qts sauerkraut!!

[smurfy]

This is my preferred method of freezing tomatoes for future use.

[smurfy]

Pickled green tomatoes.

[fishingstar]

7 hours ago, smurfy said:

This is my preferred method of freezing tomatoes for future use.

How do you go about it?

[smurfy]

wash them off, cut out all the badspots, if any. run them through the food processor. i do it at a pulse, on/off thing not to make them mushy. 

 

spray the pans with pam, pour it into pans. put in freezer and let freeze solid. 

 

i then put them in the microwave for a minute, its enough to loosen it from the pan, take a heavy duty knife and bust them up into chunks, put them in bags and freeze. 

 

i add them to hotdishes, spaghetti, soups, and chili!!!!!! i like my tomatoes!!!!

 

and no i dont peel or seed them.........i've never seeded a tomato in my life!!!!!

Edited August 31, 2023 by smurfy

[fishingstar]

thanks I think we will give it a try

[leech~~]

8 hours ago, smurfy said:

wash them off, cut out all the badspots, if any. run them through the food processor. i do it at a pulse, on/off thing not to make them mushy. 

 

spray the pans with pam, pour it into pans. put in freezer and let freeze solid. 

 

i then put them in the microwave for a minute, its enough to loosen it from the pan, take a heavy duty knife and bust them up into chunks, put them in bags and freeze. 

 

i add them to hotdishes, spaghetti, soups, and chili!!!!!! i like my tomatoes!!!!

 

and no i dont peel or seed them.........i've never seeded a tomato in my life!!!!!

Dude, you need get off this lame site and on to YouTube, where you can make money with all these ideas!

[fishingstar]

how watery are they when they thaw. We stopped freezing tomatoes because my wife doesn't like how watery they are.

[smurfy]

On 8/31/2023 at 7:27 PM, fishingstar said:

how watery are they when they thaw. We stopped freezing tomatoes because my wife doesn't like how watery they are.

The ones I got from moms freezer were mush . The way I do mine not at all.

[smurfy]

My mater juicer.