You Say Tomato
Here I have pulled together instructions, ideas, recipes, supplies, and cookbooks from across the web for canning tomatoes to be enjoyed year round.
Quick Find: Instructions, Supplies, Recipes, and the latest Buzz.
Tomatoes photo courtesy of yomi955 on Flickr.
Quick Find: Instructions, Supplies, Recipes, and the latest Buzz.
Tomatoes photo courtesy of yomi955 on Flickr.
Instructions
Great Tomato Canning Instructions
Start With a Quart of Tomatoes
Starting With a Quart of Tomatoes
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 01/04/2010)
"The premise of this book is that if you've got a quart of canned tomatoes then you can make oodles of delightful meals lickety split. Home-canned tomatoes are asserted to be far better than tinned tomatoes (and they are), so part of the book is devoted to techniques of growing and canning your own tomatoes. The bulk of it, however, is a succession of recipes beautifully introduced and with meticulous directions. " - Chef Mark
Canning and Preserving for Dummies
I wish they'd give these Dummies and Idiot's guides new names because they really are the best source of information on the topics they cover.
Canning and Preserving For Dummies (For Dummies (Cooking))
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 01/04/2010)
Canning Guides
Other Canning Lenses
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Home Canning Recipes and Supplies
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The purpose of the lens is to introduce people to the art of home canning. I will be sharing favorite recipes that I've been using for years. I invite you to share your recipes and tips on home canning. Leave a comment for me and I'll post them to t...
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Canning Jars - Filled with Love
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I'll show you just how easy canning your own vegetables and fruits can be. I'll give you step-by-step instructions for water bath canning and pressure canning. It is somewhat time consuming, but well worth the effort. Think how proud you will be of y...
Supplies
Granite Ware Canning Kit with Blancher
Granite Ware 12 Piece Canning Kit with Blancher
Amazon Price: $51.29 (as of 01/04/2010)
I like that this comes with a separate, smaller, blanching pot, along with tongs, a magnetic lid lifter, jar rack, jar lifter, and funnel.
Canning Kits
The basic tools you need to handle the jars, lids, etc. Each kit is a little bit different.
Pressure Cooker/Canners
Although there are steam canners on the market, pressure cooker/canners are your safest bet.
Canning Jars
Recipes
Tomato Pasta Sauce Recipes
For Canning
Image courtesy of Bill HR on Flickr.
- Spaghetti Sauce
- Oregano and parsley flavor this sauce.
- Ragu Sauce
- Celery, green pepper, onion, tabasco, garlic, chili powder, italian seasoning, and oregano are the seasonings.
- Spaghetti Sauce #2
- Celery, onion, green peppers, oregano, basil, and fennel seed are some of the ingredients.
Salsa Recipes
For Canning
Image courtesy of Florian on Flickr.
Searching for salsa recipes yielded interesting results. The same information is reprinted over and over again. Also, many of the salsa recipes were really more of what I would call tomato relish or chili sauce.Apparently there are some pitfalls to canning your own salsa and many of the links warn you to follow their instructions to the letter. Therefore I advise you to be extra careful when preserving salsa.
- Canning Salsa with Cilantro
- Detailed information of the proper procedures for making salsa go along with the recipe.
- Basic Salsa
- This is really basic: tomatoes, onions, garlic, jalapenos, garlic and salt.
- 16 Homemade Salsa Recipes
- I couldn't pick just one. Roasted Tomato Salsa is the most intriguing to me.
Tomato Relish Recipes
For Canning
Image courtesy of spin spin on Flickr.
- Tomato Relish for Burgers
- Tomatoes, onions, green peppers and celery seed - what's not to love?
- Ripe Tomato Relish
- This one is sweet and hot and winter spicy with green and hot peppers, onions, celery seed and what I call gingerbread spices: cinnamon, allspice, and cloves.
- Raw Tomato Relish
- This is a very unusual relish in which you drain the tomatoes and other vegetables, then pour a vinegar/spice syrup over them in the jars before you can. As you scroll down the page to find the recipe you'll see lots of other great looking tomato recipes.
Green Tomato Pickles and Relish
For Canning
Image courtesy of willsfca on Flickr.
Grab those green tomatoes before the first frost and make some relish. Ours is like sweet pickle relish.- Green Tomato Relish
- This makes a nice batch.
- Green Tomato Pickle
- The lemon and spices in this are making my mouth water!
- Green Tomato Chutney
- What makes this chutney instead of relish is the addition of raisins.
Scalloped Tomato Recipe
For using those canned tomatoes
Of course there are a gazillion things you can do with your canned tomatoes but this is one of my family's favorites.Ingredients:
1 quart of canned tomatoes, brought to a boil and simmered for about 5 minutes
1/2 stick of butter
3-5 pieces of bread, preferably white
Sugar to taste (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
Melt the butter at a medium high heat in a large skillet. Break up the bread into bite sized pieces and brown in the butter, stirring almost constantly. The bread will burn before you know it. Turn heat down to medium and add tomatoes. Let simmer for 5-10 minutes (depending on how much liquid you have). Add seasonings.
That's all there is to it. You have to be the type of person who doesn't mind soggy bread or the mouth feel will put you off right away, but the buttery bread flavor and tomato together? Yum!
Image courtesy of Tavallai on Flickr.
Garden Fresh Tomato Recipes
Buzz
Canning News
Image courtesy of thebittenword.com on Flickr.
- New Year's resolutions for the garden, and beyond ...
- I mean, heck, I planted three dozen tomato plants and had to buy a bushel and a half of tomatoes for canning and freezing. Usually I have enough to share ...
- Mary Clyde Streett
- Family members said that after canning 50000 cases of tomatoes in 1951 the cannery ceased operation. They preserved the canning house, which is now the home ...
- Family New Year's Resolutions
- In 2010 I am also looking forward to curing olives, canning chutneys, salsas, jam, and strawberry rhubarb sauce as well as drying tomatoes, fruit and beef ...
- Short-Cut Paella is a delicious weeknight dinner
- It gives the golden color to rice dishes, sauces, soups, stews, homemade canning and pickling recipes, relishes, and condiments. ...
Canned Tweets
Image courtesy of mariko on Flickr.
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- country living saturday: shooting guns and canning tomatoes! http://brizzly.com/pic/XZ0
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If the title of this guestbook just seems strange and stupid to you, check out the lolcats at I Can Has Cheeseburger. At first I thought it was an insult to my intelligence but now I laugh uncontrollably every time I go look. You might need a good laugh after hours of canning.
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- sandyspider sandyspider Oct 10, 2009 @ 9:54 am
- That is a cool looking button you have on my Tomato recipe lens. Again fantastic lens. I would give it another 5 stars if I could.
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- WindyWinters WindyWinters Oct 5, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
- Tasty Lens. I love tomatoes and eat them almost everyday! My mom and my auntie both can tomatoes. I wish my hubby enjoyed them a little more. Great Info! :)
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- CastleRoy CastleRoy Oct 5, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
- oh my gosh great lens! My mom had a big garden and would can like crazy we had shelves as big as book shelves in the basement filled with tomatoes mostly, and then yellow beens, and pickles she would make the most wonderful homemade spaghetti sauce wonderful lens. 5*s
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- sandyspider sandyspider Oct 5, 2009 @ 10:26 am
- Great lens! I will lensroll this into my Fresh Garden Tomato Recipes lens.
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- BarbRad BarbRad Oct 4, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
- You've put together a great reference for those who do have tomatoes to can. I haven't had my usual overflow crop this year, so I haven't had to make the decision about what to do with extra tomatoes. I'm sure those who need this information will be very pleased to have it all in one place.
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