Anyone live anywhere near Kenosha WI?

[JPlovesflowers]

oops, didn't mean to private message that last one....guess I got sleepy and pushed the wrong button. I couldn't figure out why it navigated away from the forum....too much sun and too little sleep today

[TheLorax]

oops, didn't mean to private message that last one.

Could have been worse... you could have posted something in an open thread that was supposed to be in a private message!

I'll go take a look at what you sent me!

[TheLorax]

Hot off the press from a tomato friend who cooks like a fiend-

Instead I boil them down and freeze them for winter use in cooking and as stewed tomatoes. The grape tomatoes, I just throw them in a big pot of boiling water wait long enough for the skins to split and fish them out with a slotted spoon to remove the skin and dump them back in the pot to boil away the water, leaving the meat. With larger tomatoes I first cut out the stem section and then follow the same procedure. After they are done I freeze them in meal sized portions and then vacuumed seal them with my Food Saver. I have more freezer storage space then canned space.
At the end of the season I make a piccalilli from my grandmother's recipe which I'll attach. It uses green tomatoes.

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[JennyC]

Lorax, here's a possibility for you:

The National Center for Home Food Preservation at the University of Georgia (UGA has one of the more respected family and consumer science progarams in the country) at https://www.uga.edu/nchfp/

There's a free web based course on home canning as well as tons of info. I didn't know about their book on preserving food or I'd have recommended it along with Putting Food By.

[TheLorax]

That's a real nice site.

Say JennyC, me and my neighbor are cheating-
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8349

[JennyC]

[Lauraluvstomatoes]

A GREAT resource on canning, gardening, and life is the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. It is one of my all time favorite non-fiction books. She and her family moved to Kentucky and lived off of food they grew or purchased locally (I think within 100 mile radius). Fascinating read.

[TheLorax]

Hey JennyC, had a chance to poke around at your website. They had some nice Power Point Presentations. They had a lot of files that were something called .ram. I couldn't figure out how to open those up or even what those were. Have you any idea or did your computer just do it for you? Also too, are those .ram files the web based canning course? If so, I'm going to be really mad that I can't figure out how to open them up!

HeyLauraluvstomatoes, Interesting book. I poked around online and found that all of the recipes from the book are here-
https://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Recipes.html

[cheshirekat]

Lorax, .ram files are playable with the RealPlayer program available at https://www.real.com/

[JennyC]

Thanks CheshireKat.

I don't think the .ram files are the online course; it looks like you have to register for that (unless you did already?) I didn't register for the course; maybe I should.