When frost came a few weeks ago we picked about 45 gallons of green tomatoes to ripen in the basement. We also cleaned the pepper plants of their peppers, and we made a couple different kinds of pepper and hot sauces. Here are some pictures from the processing.
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| The last of the produce from the field (excepting the green tomatoes we collected right before the frost). Pictured here are egglplants, various peppers, beets. |
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| Tomatoes ready to be cooked. |
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| Ancho peppers, ready for processing. |
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| Tomatoes cooking |
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| The clear-ish liquid spooned off the top of the cooking tomatoes, eliminating much (MUCH) of the cooking time. |
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| Putting the tomatoes through the food mill. The finished product (with no extra cooking) is in the white bucket beneath the mill. |
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| One of our mild, tangy peppers sauces, using ancho and bell peppers. |
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| Our two main pepper sauces, the mild, green on the right, and the red, mildly spicy sauce on the left. We used tomatoes and various peppers for the red sauce. |
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| We decided to dry some of the eggplant and squash for the winter. Good for adding to soups! |
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The Ford Family
Awesome! What can you recommend to be done with jalapeno peppers? I've so much that I have no idea what to do with them other than slice them up, vacuum seal them and put them in the freezer.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I would pickle them or dry them. Dried ones make a great addition to soups, chili, etc during the winter, but I would dry them in the garage or outside, because the oils coming off can burn your eyes. They are good addded to other pickles if you pickle anything else. Jalapenos always produce more than we know what to do with as well, and inevitably we waste some.
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Kevin
What do you mean by drying? As in one of those Excalibur devices?
ReplyDeleteYes, the Excalibur is one of the better options of food driers. We have one that's old and not the best model in the world, but it works. Technically, you could sun-dry them, but that would not be as easy as drying them in a food drier.
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Kevin