{"id":5268,"date":"2014-09-14T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T22:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2014-09-14T18:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T22:14:47","slug":"tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5268","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom and I went to the Clearspring Produce Auction on Thursday and in a marvel of restraint came home with only 4 1\/2 bushels of tomatoes. There was a group of 5 pecks of Romas I really wanted, and a lot of 5 pecks of really nice jalapenos, and I almost bought Debbie a pallet of 60 ornamental gourds and pumpkins.<\/p>\n

But we were good and only came home with canning tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\"Canning<\/a>
Canning Tomatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All that restraint went out the window when I went to the Columbia City Farmer’s Market on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"Farmer's<\/a>
Farmer’s Market Goodies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I came home with about 4 quarts of hot peppers for hot sauce, an 8 pound head of cabbage for sauerkraut, two baby ginger roots, a loaf of Italian style bread, and two beautiful eggplants.<\/p>\n

Today we started canning tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Calm Before the Storm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everything started out neat and tidy. But pretty soon we had every burner covered.<\/p>\n

\"Cooking<\/a>
Cooking 5 Gallons of Tomatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Two<\/a>
Two Canners and Three Pans of Tomatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lana threatened us with bodily harm if we cooked tomatoes in her water bath canner, so we took a picture to prove we were being good.<\/p>\n

\"Proper<\/a>
Proper Usage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not surprisingly, things got out of hand.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A Big Mess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And at one point a cork trivet stuck to the bottom of a pan, and I put it back on the stove.<\/p>\n

\"Oops\"<\/a>
Oops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tom and I looked at one another for bit, “what is on the bottom of that pan that’s making it smoke so?” We soon answered our own question, and in a Gordon-esque move, hurled the smoking trivet out the back door.<\/p>\n

But by mid-afternoon most everything was done – because we ran out of jars. We still have 25 quarts of juice to process, and haven’t touched the hot peppers yet.<\/p>\n

\"Bounty\"<\/a>
Bounty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But we’re mostly done, and it sure looks pretty all cleaned up and the tomatoes in nice rows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Day of Tomatoes – 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}