Hi Buddy! My wife and daughter have been babysitting our new niece. I got a call from my daughter asking if we could make salsa again tonight when they came home? It was a good feeling. Any knowledge on food preservation is priceless in dire times. My family has canned and frozen fruits and veggies ever since I can remember. Its just what we do, natural as the day is long. It thrills me that my son and daughter both take an interest.
This was our first attempt at making salsa. My wife got a recipe that was titled "Sweet and Spicy." We canned 6 pints for starters. Its just as well. Sweet and spicy was entirely too sweet. Tonight's batch will have much less sugar. We will tweak it until I get a recipe that I won't be ashamed to share.
My little 99 cent for a 4 pack of super chiles was a good buy. They are hot little boogers but just right in small quantities to liven up the sinuses and give the salsa just the right zip.
I've picked a few of the long slender black eggplants. The Japanese Hybrid's are just about ready. They are long, slender and white. I'm curious to try them, this was my experimental plant this year.
We found that we prefer the long slender black variety, (I want to say Jubilee?) over the bulbous "black beauty." They tend to be sweeter and less bitter.
My grandmother was a product of the great depression. She didn't waste a single thing. Including water! I can remember her coming over to the house when we would clean chickens. She would have a plate of something, I didn't dare ask what it was. Like I said, she wasted nothing. She would roll over in her grave if she saw my wife and kids and how wasteful they can be. They have never been "hungry." If you ask them they have, they have no idea what it's like to be hungry. I feel its my duty and obligation to see to it that they don't either.
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