Visited the farm. Picked some pear tomatoes. Popped them in the awesome solar oven for the day. Shared them with internet friends at a preserve swap and tasting. How satisfying.
Canning Tomatoes for the First Time: Some Lessons Learned
Although we’ve now been canning, mostly successfully, for a few years, this year we’ve been taking on bigger projects. First those pesky peaches and now 3 bushels of blasted tomatoes. We shot this great time lapse video of our twelve hour day that certainly demonstrates the busy-ness but there’s much it is not showing. Here […]
Twelve Hours of Tomatoes in Two Minutes
This video is meant to be part of a much larger post about our adventures in canning tomatoes but that will just have to come later in the week as Ryan and I are just too excited to share this. Here is a time lapse that Ryan and […]
Wordless Wednesday: What the Heck is This Tomato?
These lovely tomatoes grew in a friend’s garden… and nobody knows what they are. Here’s one ripened up. Here it is for scale. Here’s the inside, about to go on a burger. Lots of seeds, quite strong skin, perfectly symmetrical from the middle line. Delicious too. Any idea what it could be?
Wordless Wednesday: Gorgeous Zapotec Pleated Tomatoes
Zapotec Pleated Tomatoes are pretty much the best looking tomatoes ever.