After 8 hours in the kitchen this afternoon, here is what we have to show for ourselves:
3.5 pounds more tomatoes in freezer for the winter
2 quarts tomato soup from scratch (about 3 cups left now that we ate it up for dinner)
3 trays sweet potatoes dehydrating
1 tray sungold tomatoes dehydrating
1 tray zucchini dehydrating
4 pounds grapes harvested and cleaned for eating (the very last off the vines)
I took a couple of 10 minute breaks, and worked on my current cabled hat project also. Going back to the hat now, in fact.
I had never in my life before today had tomato soup from scratch, and let me tell you, I am hooked! Blanching and peeling all those tomatoes first is a chore, but the FLAVOR - it's like drinking the sunrise - in a meadow of buttercups by a babbling brook. I highly recommend it, and the recipe is so simple, it would make you cry. You would be crying at all those missed years...those soupless, hapless years.
3 comments:
Looks like you have a great bounty of foods! All I managed this year were some tomatoes but they would have liked more sun than we get here. So have cleared a small patch and need to research what works in a shady area.
Home made tomato soup is divine! Makes it hard to eat the other stuff.
Local grapes too. I'm not sure I could go back to eating CA grapes from the store. They mostly just taste sweet to me now.
Could we have the tomato soup recipe?
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