Salsa

In May, I planted 14 roma tomato plants that I started from seed in January.  The night I planted them in the garden a huge wind storm came to town and broke 7 of those plants.  I was really upset at the time, but I am sooooo grateful now!  

My surviving seven produced more tomatoes than any other year and I was literally up to my elbows in tomatoes.  Over the past month, I put up 20 quarts of salsa, 8 quarts of marinara sauce and 10 quarts of whole tomatoes.  There are actually still quite a lot of green tomatoes on my plants but fall has completely skipped Minnesota and we are in the 40's already.  Too cold for ripening!

I wish I could post my salsa recipe for you because it really is outstanding, but I don't have one.  It is one of those products that I do completely by taste as I go.  It is very dependent on the sweetness of the tomatoes, the heat in the jalapeno and anaheim chilis, and the type of onion used.  Feel free to come on over next summer when I make it again and I'll give you some individual lessons :-)