The Good and the Bad

The summer is over - sigh! Sadly my garden yielded tasteless tomatoes, but other people had more luck. I decided to try a spaghetti sauce recipe with the ones that ended up in my kitchen. Too bad I picked a terrible one to try! Whatever you do, if you find a recipe that calls for brown sugar - don't do it! Just say no!

Boiling tomatoes to peel off the skins.

Chopped veggies for the mix-

Again - bad choice of ingredients, so I won't bother posting the recipe.

However! At the same time, I decided to do sun dried tomatoes in oil-

These were good!

Slice 12 Roma tomatoes the long way into fourths

Sprinkle 2 tbsp sugar, 3 tsp oregano, and salt and pepper over the tomatoes

Place the tomatoes on baking sheets (don't let them touch) and put them in the oven at 175 degrees for around 8 hrs.

Tomatoes should be dried out!

Add 3 tbsp white wine vinegar and 1 cup extra virgin olive oil in a saucepan.

Boil.

Add 1 tsp crushed red pepper

Let mixture cool

Put dried tomatoes in sterilized cans and pour oil mixture over the top. Add more oil if tomatoes are not covered. Tightly screw on lids. Use within two weeks.

*Do not use a hot water bath to seal jars - oil mixtures do not work with this method!*

Loading Dried Tomatoes into the jars