Canning Salsa



A little some thing HOT!

     This is a must have around my house.  Not just good with collard greens, even with a bologna sandwich, you got to have a pepper.

     This is easy to make no cooking.  Just stuff as much as possible into a jar, and add apple cider vinegar.  That's it.  I usually put cayenne, and tobacco peppers in whole.  I slice jalapenos peppers.  Chunks of green tomato''s are good, and got to put in 3 or 4 cloves of garlic.  Here we have cherry tomato's that go great on the pizza.  There is the delivery guy now.

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  Stocking up!!!  Keep in mind that we have a small garden.  Peppers and tomatoes you can grow on a balcony.  Last year our cucumbers didn't grow well, so we bought them at the farmers market.  Today we are making salsa.  Easy too, but you need the stove for this one.  You need to cut up a large pot of tomatoes.

     First fill a large pot of water and bring to a boil.  Wash your tomatoes, rinse and plug the sink.  Fill

the sink with your tomatoes and pout the hot water over them and let set till cool.  This is so the tomatoes will peel easy.  Cut tomatoes in chunks and fill, cook on medium.  Go find some thing to do, but come back to stir.  We are cooking this down to remove the water. 

In the other pot we have our jars, in the other lids.

We're canning 101

     While we are waiting, lets get the cutting board out, and a sharp knife.  Here we have 6 cayenne,  2 tobacco, and 8 jalapeno peppers chopped up fine in the bowl.  Add 3 or more cloves of garlic, a whole onion, and 2 large bell peppers.  Yellow and green for color, I'll use green because they are from my garden.

  

5 hours later
we pour off the water left, later you can use it for soup, or tomato juice.

We have added our peppers and onions.  Time to pour it up into jars.  Our jars and lids have been in a few inches of hot water.  Be carefull the jars are hot use a towel.
Now, set your jar back into your pot.  When finished you'll have 7 and 1/2 jars, put the 1/2 jar in the refrigerator.  Then fill the pot with hot water to just under the lids.  Bring the pot to a boil, then turn it down on low for 20 minutes. 
After that let cool, and lesson for each lid to "pop".  That means they are sealed, and you did good.