adventures in homemaking: canning tomatoes

my trip to vermont

was not without purpose-

amanda and i

decided this spring

to give canning a go

when tomatoes were in season

...

with 70lbs. of organic roma beauties

62 wide mouth quart jars

and a few YouTube videos

we were off and running...

washing the jars

blanch. peel. core. dice.

our stovetop ready for sterilizing jars

hard at work

(i was on tomato duty, amanda- jars)

well diced. but oh-so-many-more to go!

admitedly, we freaked when the first batch came out looking like this:

but after some phone calls to

canning-friendly friends

we were relieved to discover the separation was totally normal

(color and amount of water may vary depending on tomato-type)

death. by. canning.

we put in some SERIOUS man hours

exhausted for good reason:

47 quarts of diced tomatoes + 5 quarts of tomato puree

...

think we'd had enough?

HA!
we decided we'd had

SO.MUCH.FUN

we'd tackle peaches

next...

(told you we were both psycho!)