Thanks for the thread.
I don’t think I got a reply to my question as to what to do with gallons of tomatoes in my freezer from last year... but instead of canning I cooked it down to tomato paste. 5 lbs of tomatoes cook down to about once ice cube tray full of tomato paste.
A couple of us responded and said ‘go for it!’ but your solution sounds perfect as well! :)
I’m stocking up on canning jars these days, just in case there’s a shortage of the ones I like. ;)
There are recipes for crockpot tomato sauce.
Also, if you have a dehydrator, you could make tomato powder. That’s the most space efficient use I know of.
Tomato powder is really easy to use when you’re cooking, lots of info out there. I personally prefer it. Just need to keep it in ziploc bags or jars and somewhere dark.
We made tomato soup and froze iit last year.
We also made pasta Putanesca and froze it.
We had the last soup from 2019 a few weeks ago.
Thank you for that handy piece of information!
I have absolutely no indeterminate tomatoes this year so may have to put away massive quantities at one time instead of making a gallon of salsa every week or two.
At least, I hope so...