flars
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In 2007 and 2008 the garden produced bumper crops. We started making making some salsa to put in the freezer. All the ingredients are oven roasted before dicing. Tomatoes, onions, garlic, and jalapenos. The first year lime juice was added. Lime juice is kind of a funky flavor after freezing, left it out in the next year and each year later. Last year I started canning the salsa.
Surprisingly we ate very little of the salsa as salsa on chips. Almost all of it has been repurposed. Add different amounts canned tomato sauce and it is a bold and spicy pasta sauce or a mild pasta sauce. We use it straight as the sauce ingredient in meatloaf. With cubed and dried bread in a stuffed pork loin. Refrigerator marinade for beef and pork, then using the marinade for a cooked sauce. Sauce for tacos, burritos, chimichangas, and pizza. Heat can be increased with sun dried cayenne peppers, still have some left from 2008. Will add thyme, rosemary, or other herbs, for a slightly different flavor.
Haven't purchased any type of tomato sauces since fall of 2007. This year I will be growing our herbs, with grow lights, down stairs in the family room. Last two years I had them in the garage, after digging and potting from the garden, but the garage kitty ate the chives and parsley.
Surprisingly we ate very little of the salsa as salsa on chips. Almost all of it has been repurposed. Add different amounts canned tomato sauce and it is a bold and spicy pasta sauce or a mild pasta sauce. We use it straight as the sauce ingredient in meatloaf. With cubed and dried bread in a stuffed pork loin. Refrigerator marinade for beef and pork, then using the marinade for a cooked sauce. Sauce for tacos, burritos, chimichangas, and pizza. Heat can be increased with sun dried cayenne peppers, still have some left from 2008. Will add thyme, rosemary, or other herbs, for a slightly different flavor.
Haven't purchased any type of tomato sauces since fall of 2007. This year I will be growing our herbs, with grow lights, down stairs in the family room. Last two years I had them in the garage, after digging and potting from the garden, but the garage kitty ate the chives and parsley.