Bloody typical, just when I have loads of Tomatoes ripening, my Courgettes have gone on strike.
Anyway, with just a few Courgettes and loads of green Peppers I decided to start off my 2014 bottling campaign with half a dozen 500 gm jars of Tomatoes with Courgettes and Peppers (TCP).
What I really want to preserve this year is Courgettes in Tomato sauce, and just plain Tomato sauce (Passata). I find these the most useful.
We still have just a couple of bottles from last year, but they will be finished before long. I reckon I've got my annual quantities right, even if I can't get everything to grow at the right time.
Synchronization Cro, synchronization!
It is often that I can even smell the good food in your photos.
ReplyDeleteSeems that we are both starting our 'Rat' preserving at the same time this year. I am waiting for more tomatoes to ripen so I can crack on - I finished last year's lot ages ago.
ReplyDeleteGood morning to you,
ReplyDeleteI've just dropped by from John at Going Gently. We have a courgette problem as well....to many of the blasted things, and mostly the yellow variety. What's the recipe for jarring them up as you do?
I chop each Tom into about 20 pieces (smallish), slice the Courgettes, and cut up the peppers, then cook them (with salt pepper garlic and olive oil) until softish. I then bottle and sterilise for 1 hour. They keep for about 2 years.
DeleteThanks.
DeleteMy courgettes are rubbish this year...but tomatoes and onions are doing particularly well.
ReplyDeleteany chance of a few recipes?
ReplyDeleteSee above, Weaver.
DeleteJust wandering if you have a canning thingy?
ReplyDeletewondering...even
DeleteNo, but local shops will put your filled cans through a machine to close them. I use the Le Parfait Familia Weiss system, with those capsule lids (above) that are screwed down whilst sterilising. It's a good system.
Deletewill look into it, thanks.
DeleteLike a Kilner jar but with a more fancy French name.
DeletePOASH.
DeleteI used to can tomatoes when my children were home. I would do about 60 jars a year. Recently, two of my children told me that they cannot eat anything with red sauce on it as it makes them ill. Apparently, I overdid.
ReplyDeleteI do about 25 jars; one for every 2 weeks.
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