Canning Tomatoes...

On Sunday, I went over to our friends' house to can some vegetables. Our friend Adam has a really nice sized garden, and had a lot of produce to do something with. So, we decided to can it all! In the next few days I will do a few different posts on the different things we canned.

So, first things first... tomato basil sauce! We used the recipe from William's Sonoma's, The Art of Preserving cookbook.

Basil. Yum.

My mouth is watering...

Here's Adam! He's straining the tomatoes after they've cooked for an hour... Looks darn good doin it too!

Here's the sauce after it was strained....

The finished product... delish, right?

We both decided that next time around (when my garden tomatoes are ripe), we will blanch the tomatoes, peel them, and then boil them down. That will eliminate the straining process. We actually ended up adding a few of the chunks we had strained out back into the sauce because it was too smooth. Obviously this will depend on preference, but this way just seemed a little too wasteful!

Check back tomorrow for pickles!