Friday 14 August 2020

Glut of tomatoes

We are not able to keep up with eating all the tomatoes as they ripen so I picked some to go into the freezer.


After taking all the skins off I boiled them up and added some leftover passata that needed using up. I reckon I have the equivalent of 4 cans of tomatoes here. It's taken much longer to get to this stage with homegrown tomatoes. I could have just picked 4 cans off the shelf in the supermarket but I'm sure I wouldn't have the same satisfaction. I'll wait for them to cool and then put them in the freezer.


We also have smaller tomatoes which we will eat fresh, the yellow ones (Ildi) first as they split as soon as they are picked.


I've now picked and eaten 32 bunches of grapes and there are still more to go. These will be eaten today.


To clean the pan I use this brush. I would really like to have a wooden one but I'm not going to throw away a perfectly good plastic one so the wooden one will have to wait a bit longer.

 

This is saved from its eventual 'do harm to the environment' fate for now.


xx

5 comments:

  1. Delicious homegrown tomatoes sauce...heaps better than the tinned stuff which I detest. I have a bit of an obsession with tinned foods I am always thinking about those artificial preservatives that are added to food. It is worth that bit of extra time when you eat fresh,homegrown like you do. Tasty too! Grapes as well!!! Very nice! Keep well Amanda x

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  2. Lovely home grown cant beat it.

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  3. Nothing tastes as good as tomatoes frozen from the garden. I do some up every year.

    God bless.

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  4. I love tomato gluts too. It's wonderful to have that sunshine flavour preserved for winter.
    xx

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  5. I have only had a couple of tomatoes off my plants so far but there are loads to come. The taste has been superb and we can't wait to start cropping them properly.

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