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Fri Aug 11 2006

After sweating over a hot stove for days and days (OK, only 3 days) I've got it. The final results of 45 pounds of tomatoes reduced down to this:

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Eleven measly pints of seasoned tomato sauce from 45 pounds of tomatoes. Boy is it yummy though!

In the future, when I want to do tomatoes, I’m going to make absolutely certain there is nothing going on. I could have had this done in a day if I started first thing. Silly me started mid-day on the first of three days in which I wasn’t home long enough to get it done.

I may actually do more of this in the next few days, the market I went to today to get cherries (Bing Cherries for 98 cents a pound) had Roma’s on for 78 cents a pound. I will definitely need to go back there while they are still at this price!

3 Comments
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Aug 12 2006
    Those are 11 pretty little jars though, shame 45 pounds doesn't go farther. Pretty amazing, actually.
  • From:
    FutureCat (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Aug 12 2006
    Depending on the type of shelves you've got, one simple solution might be to nail a narrow strip of wood or something along the front of each shelf, at about half the height of the jars. That should restrict their movement enough to stop them falling on the floor (unless it's a *really* big earthquake, in which case cleaning up broken jars is probably going to be the least of your worries), but still let you see the contents of the jars. I've seen a few pantry shelves protected like this (NZ is pretty earthquake-prone too), and it seems to work quite well.

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  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 13 2006
    There is just something so nifty about jars filled with tasty tidbits.

    I see someone else had the same thought I did; install a rail. You could even do it with small bungee cords; then all you would need to install would be a hook on each wall.