Got my first ripe tomatoes

[Cooperman]

How do you guys process your tomatoes when they are just trickling in? Blanch then freeze?

[LPS]

I quit the whole blanch thing.  I just put them in a bag and freeze them.  When they start to thaw when I am going to use them the peels come right off. 

[KEN W]

I picked enough Early Girls and Saucy tomatoes today for the first batch of fresh salsa>

[mike89]

ok Barry we are going to try your freezing method..  that way we can get more maters too..   

[Cooperman]

So, just wash them, bag them, and into the freezer whole? That’s a time saver.

[LPS]

Yup it works great and makes blanching a lot of un-needed work to me.  We have had some tomatoes frozen for a couple of years and they still were great for stews and soups.

[LPS]

Now that I think about it I think someone on here told me that.  Or the other place. 

[Bobberineyes]

I'll hafta try that lps, I've been picking daily starting to give em away. How bout freezing for salsa yet ?

[Jerkbiat]

Now that I think about it I think someone on here told me that.  Or the other place.

That is what we have been doing for a long time. It may have been me that mentioned it.

[glenn57]

  i've never heard of such a thing?????? to many tomatoes to have to freeze??????

[Jerkbiat]

Well, as long as you plug the freezer in all will be good.  I just had to do it.

[Dotch]

 

[glenn57]

Well, as long as you plug the freezer in all will be good.  I just had to do it.

[glenn57]

awe go play with your aphids!!!!!!!!!

[Dotch]

...along with worms & grasshoppers dying from various fungal pathogens! 

[LPS]

I have noticed more grasshoppers than usual this later summer.   They make a snapping sound at times.  The other day one landed by me and snapped 4 times.  A strong snapping sound!   Weren't like the big green ones we saw in Luverne but a darker color. 

[mike89]

scored a bunch more maters today, going to freeze them too and then next week we are going to make stewed maters and spaghetti sauce if we can find a good recipe!!    got green peppers too!!   

[glenn57]

scored a bunch more maters today, going to freeze them too and then next week we are going to make stewed maters and spaghetti sauce if we can find a good recipe!!    got green peppers too!!

so who's garden you stealing from.

Steward mater's are easy peasy. No need for recipe.

[mike89]

agreed on the stewed maters, but reread it I said spaghetti sauce..   and I just happen to know the folks with the garden and I didn't realize how much extra they had till this year!!!  so score!!!!   

[glenn57]

just keeping you on your toes!!!!!!!

i've only seen sketti sause made from scratch once, and that was a while ago. from what i remember, the skun, cored and quartered the maters. then they added a bunch of different seasonings. they were fresh and they diced these up really fine, thins like basil oregano........dat kind of stuff.

i gotz my own world famous sketti sauce i make!!!!!

[Cooperman]

i gotz my own world famous sketti sauce i make!!!!!
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You make your own ketchup?

[glenn57]

i gotz my own world famous sketti sauce i make!!!!!

You make you own ketchup?
[/quote] no. dere is a difference between katchup and sketti sauce.  i let Heinz take care of da katchup part!!!!!!