RE: Turning late-season tomatoes into delicious sauce

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Turning late-season tomatoes into delicious sauce

in garden •  11 months ago 

Yes, good call. I was glad to get my genetics back this year. Now I feel ready to pull in a big harvest (and save more seeds) in 2024.

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  ·  11 months ago  ·  

Good, hope it helps! Etsy is a good place to sell things, might add some spending money.

I'm glad you're getting on your feet, before things get soft!

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  ·  11 months ago  ·  

Haven't tried it... but almost everything nowadays is out of my reach, as it requires recent government photo ID, or a bank account, or a smart phone, none of which I have!

  ·  11 months ago  ·  

Finished drying and vacuum packing some tomatoes yesterday.
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Drying onions right now....

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  ·  11 months ago  ·  

Looks great bud... tasty snacks to pull out in the middle of Winter!

  ·  11 months ago  ·  

True, they taste sun dried. It's a good way to long term preserve vegetables, especially with a vacuum pack!

I've even taken frozen vegetables, and dried and packed them. They're already blanched that way, and when dried and vacuumed they will keep for many years.
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Still more to process to be prepared well.

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  ·  11 months ago  ·  

Colourful! We do have a vaccuum sealer, as well as the dehydrator, so I will have to figure out how to use it. I think I can get an attachment so that I can suck the air out of jars.

  ·  11 months ago  ·  

Yes there is a common attachment for canning jars, that allows for a vacuum to be applied. I like to buy the cheap silver lids that I won't trust in a canner, to cap these vacuumed jars. They can be reused indefinitely in this service. The dehydrator will have an online book on 'how to' for your model!
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Here are cherry tomatoes after drying. They must be sliced in half first, or they'll never dry. Each quart is 8 pounds of cherry tomatoes originally, so their volume is greatly reduced by dehydration!

These were the raw vegetables:
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We have a store that gets truckloads of things undeliverable to stores and restaurants. They were selling these for a dollar, so I filled these quarts for four dollars....

Stay safe!

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  ·  11 months ago  ·  

Use PayPal, they seem to be more tolerant. There should be a way through if you double check! Even local barter with seeds can help....

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