Tomatoes, tomatoes everywhere!

A few weeks ago I was sure we were going to lose most of our tomatoes to blossom rot. But, in a true gardening miracle, we lost about a dozen tomatoes and the rest are beautiful! But HUGE! So today I took a bowl of tomatoes, some green peppers, some jalepenos and some other assorted odds and ends and tried my hand at making salsa for the first time.

I used the recipe from Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today called "Simple 'Home' Salsa". I will let you know in about a month if it is good, and if it is, then I will type up the 2 page recipe for you!

For those of you who wonder such things, I needed 10 cups of coarsely chopped tomatoes and got 3 quarts of salsa.

And there are so many large tomatoes out in the garden that there are probably another 2 batches of salsa out there! So I will be harvesting them as they ripen and freezing them as I will not have a chance to can them for the next 2 weeks. My MIL who has been canning all her life said that this works fine with tomatoes.