Tons of Tomatoes, We Had Tons of Tomatoes..

We didn't really have tons of tomatoes but over the course of the last several weeks we have purchased and canned 200 pounds of the juicy, red buggers. This is worse than peaches! I will make a disclaimer that the photos in the post are not in proper time/date format because of the way I up loaded them. However, in this order they give a better perspective of what we did with the tomatoes. This is only one of several boxes of tomatoes we purchased.

Everything involving tomatoes calls for the tomatoes to be peeled. The are first put into boiling water and then tossed into ice water which causes the skins to come off easily. My fingers are pretty damn cold after doing this with 25 pounds of tomatoes at a time.

Here is close to 25 pounds of tomatoes, peeled and ready to be used.

We made salsa,,,some hot,,,some medium and some with lots of extra onions and garlic. I have no idea which type this is,,,but wait, there's more!

We made chili mix,,,or is this the pasta sauce?? I'm not sure but we made some of both. Good thing Mike labeled them this morning.

We canned plain tomatoes and then put some jalapenos in others and,,,,

We canned more tomatoes with jalapenos.

What we ended up with is 2 cases of quart jars of plain tomatoes, 1 case of quart jars of tomatoes with jalapenos, 14 pints of hot salsa, 7 pints of chili mix, 7 pints of pasta sauce and 7 pints of medium salsa and 7 pints of medium salsa with extra onions and garlic and then one pint of plain tomatoes.