Salsa

There is always a first time for everything. I have made my way into the canning world! I have always wanted to can but I just didn't know where to start. Well my mom brought me TONS of beautiful tomatoes that she has grown! Bruce and I have been eating bacon and tomato sandwiches and salsa for about a week and a half now but sadly I was starting to loose some of the tomatoes so I decided to can salsa!

I love my fresh salsa recipe so I tried it cooked and it was okay, not the same, but much better than the store bought salsas! Bruce said that once winter hits the salsa is going to be delicous, I am just comparing it with the fresh stuff that is available now! So I just stuck with that recipe...

I ended up with 20 pints of salsa and today I did 8 pints of just diced tomatoes, I figured that it is always nice to have diced tomatoes on hand for spagetti sauce, taco soup, hamburger soup, you know all the good stuff!

I am very proud of myself and now I am wanting to do more! But my poor house has suffered the last day and a half that I was doing all the canning! Bear in mind that I was also baby sitting four other kids plus my two that I still have at home at the same time I was canning, I know I am crazy! But it is done and I only lost a handful of tomatoes! Oh yea and all of the jars sealed...I was pretty happy about that!