[Qiviut]

This was my project this afternoon - first time I've ever canned anything after wanting to do it for years. After visiting the garden this morning, I had a roasting pan full of tomatoes, plus what I had from about 3 days ago. Using my tomatoes and peppers from the garden, this is an 8 pint batch of salsa. It turned out pretty spicy, definitely hotter than I intended. This batch is going to be called "Hit & Run" Salsa .... hits you with the heat right off the bat, but the heat doesn't linger around and make you miserable. All 8 pints sealed .... that little "pop" is one satisfying sound! Now comes the hard part - cleaning up the kitchen.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Impressive!

Canning food is awesome; once you get over the fear of things blowing up in your face, it’s all downhill from there, LOL!

[greeneyes]

LOL. Cleaning up the kitchen. I agree. Plus, I am kinda OCD about the kitchen, and have to clean, sweep, and mop before I start, and again after.

As long as I am not cooking or canning, though I don’t really care too much about the kitchen clean-so that’s weird isn’t it?

I created a recipe of salsa too - it was way to spicy hot, so I have to dump one cup into a pint of sour cream to make a dip.

At the store, I picked up some Mrs. Wages mild and will try that with just plain bell peppers and see how it turns out. I’m going to use some Romas that I froze last year, since we have almost no tomatoes this year.