Can Can Can you do it?

What do Tomatoes....

A sink with 11 pounds of green beans....

A grill full of roasted veggies......

One of these space age contraptions...

and a couple dozen of these things have in common?

Well when you put them all together, with a little time and sweat equity, you get winter time goodness...well at least that is what we are hoping for. Huge thanks to mom for the care package with the pressure canner and book to get us going.  We found a new seal locally without too much trouble, and thanks to craigslist, we got a bargain on a few dozen jars.

Amanda coring the tomatoes before we took the skins off.

The peppers are from the local farmers market we go to on Saturday mornings, but the eggplant is from our garden, This was for several things here.  Roasted the chilis just because we kind of get a hankerin for some green chili occasionally since we left the green chili state. The rest was for a roasted veggie tomato sauce.

 

And well...after you work your booty off canning all day, this is what you end up with. Ignore the mirror shot, it was easier than moving them all away from the wall. It's been nice having the canner, and we certainly look forward to all this food come winter.  (The beans turned out to be about a pound per quard, 5 pints of tomato sauce, 4 pints of crushed tomatoes, which was somewhat of a learning curve, should have put a lot more in those, then 4 little 4 oz jars of roasted green chilis. Looking forward to those on eggs in the near future.

All in all it's been a great experience, and hopefully the garden keeps giving us more to put in the jars. We have been very fortunate to have a space to grow some produce.  The food has been wonderful so far, and our grocery bill has certainly plummeted since the garden has been producing.  So until then, love you all, hope life is treating you as well as it has us.