http://ophelielechat.com/tomato-dream/ It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:36:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://ophelielechat.com/tomato-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-26 James McKinney Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:14:48 +0000 http://ophelielechat.com/?p=87#comment-26 Discovered your blog through your twitter. I enjoy the personal development stuff. Anyway, tomato sauce is absolutely worth it. Every fall, my family goes out to pick the tomatoes at a farm on the south shore, collecting maybe 10 bushels in under an hour, and a week later, waking up at dawn (because my grandmother insists on starting early) to go through the whole process you described (up to canning) before lunch time. We don't sterilize the Mason jars anymore, though, as the tomato sauce is so scaldingly hot that it serves the same purpose. (We also skip the ice bath, because the women in our family seem to have hands of steel. :) Discovered your blog through your twitter. I enjoy the personal development stuff. Anyway, tomato sauce is absolutely worth it. Every fall, my family goes out to pick the tomatoes at a farm on the south shore, collecting maybe 10 bushels in under an hour, and a week later, waking up at dawn (because my grandmother insists on starting early) to go through the whole process you described (up to canning) before lunch time. We don’t sterilize the Mason jars anymore, though, as the tomato sauce is so scaldingly hot that it serves the same purpose. (We also skip the ice bath, because the women in our family seem to have hands of steel.

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