My New Hobby

Along with our gardening experiment this year, I've done some canning. We planted tomatoes and peppers thinking that we could make a ton of salsa, but they didn't ripen at the same time. So I made Spaghetti Sauce, Pizza Sauce and Salsa. And today I turned a gallon bag of jalapeno peppers into 8 half-pints of Jelly!



We also planted cucumbers - which we also don't like. But I do like pickles!



We also had a few cases of peaches that the boys sold for a scout fundraiser. Some of those got sliced and frozen in gallon bags. Some were frozen in pies. And some got canned as Spiced Peaches, Cinnamon Peach Jam, Peach Syrup, and Peach Butter. It's a lot of work and it's more expensive than just buying cans of food at the store, but I like doing it - and it tastes sooo good. It's a nice skill to have and I love how my storage room shelves are filling up with pretty jars of yummy things!