Gloria,

Those jars of your tomatoes look great. I can a lot of tomatoes as well as other things. But I use the tomatoes for chilli, soup, etc. all winter long. I have made salsa but it always seems to have to much liquid in it for me. Do you have a good recipe for extra thick salsa? I also do spaghetti sauce. My husband just loves it. Have you ever made pickeled green tomatoes? They are our favorite.

Melissa

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Every year I plant a huge tomato garden. Last year I planted Better Boy and Celebrity tomatoes. I can or jar the majority of my tomatoes. The pic is some I did last year. I also make Salsa with tomatoes and other veggies from my garden.

To can tomatoes... remove the skins from tomatoes, I dip them in boiling water for a few seconds, the skins will slip right from them, then I cut the top or stem off and cut into chunks. I heat the tomatoes in a large stock pot. Next, fill sterile jars with the cut up, heated tomatoes. For quarts, add a teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of salt to each jar. Wipe the mouth of the jar to remove any drippings of tomatoes, salt or sugar and put on sealing cap and ring and tighten snug but not tooo snug. Put jars into a boiling open bath and bring back to a boil, boiling for 35 minutes.