The juice is loose!

[greatbear]

The garden has started producing tomatoes in earnest. This evening Jeff and I gave my recently acquired Champion juicer it's first try, since I had also gotten my desired optional screen. In about 15-20 minutes we ended up with several gallons of juice! This sure beat the hell out of my old hand-cranked method by a mile. The juice itself is nice and thick but without the seeds or skins, I will begin cooking the stuff down tomorrow with the ultimate result being pasta sauce/marinara. This is only the beginning, however. The harvest of the last several days is only the tip of the tomato-y iceberg. Some of the Roma tomatoes will be frozen as they are, quite useful later on in dishes needing whole 'maters or things like soups and stews. More sauce will be made and frozen, and lots will be had in upcoming meals too. Quite a bit of the harvest will be shared with friends as well.

The smell of tomato sauce being made is one of my favorite smells, it reminds me of late summer, and, these days of course, Mom. So I am sure I'll get a little more than wistful as my olfactory senses go into overload. That's not a bad thing. One thing I know, Mom would have loved this juicer. I hope I make her memory proud.

Comments

[2stroker.livejournal.com]

MMmmmm There's nothing better than home grown food! I miss my garden. Enjoy it!

[dan4behr.livejournal.com]

We have several tomato plants in the yard. I guess it's the hard clay/sand compacted soil we have here in North Carolina, but most tomatoes just aren't happy in it. We can get the little cherry tomatoes to grow in abundance, but other varieties just won't produce fruit....

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

George and I had a two acre garden at the farm for many years.. we had lots of tomatoes towards summer's end!

We'd turn many of them into sauce, and put the sauce into jars!

It's a lot of bother, but nothing beats home made
cooking!

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

I chose to grow "heirloom" tomatoes this summer, and, while I've had more than enough for daily use, there will be no post season preserves. And my pumpkins? Long, aggressive vines that cling like pythons to everything in sight, but nary a single pumpkin.

Next year, flowers.

more than just tomatoes

[disccub.livejournal.com]

Glad your new toy is working better than you seem to have anticipated.
Hope you are doing well, physically.

[rockybear02.livejournal.com]

First off - I'm sure you always make her memory proud!

AND wow - all that talk about sauce makes me think Carmen would love that thing....