#WW Tomatoes {Linky}

Processing tomatoes is almost an everyday thing. I'm pretty sure we go through the longest way to process them. 

1. Pick Them
2. Sun Bathe Them in the Windows
3. Slice Them
4. Boil Them
5. Put Them in an Ice Water Bath
6. Peel Them
7. Deseed Them
8. Put Them in a Big ZipLoc Bag
9. Deep Freeze Them
10. Can Them When the Deep Freezer is Full

I'd skip the deseeding part, but I'm an ultra allergy sufferer. I've read that the seeds are what bother many with allergies. They get stomach aches, and don't even know why. Tomatoes were on the list of foods to avoid - from my allergy | asthma doctor. I only am supposed to avoid them during the season, when they grow. The same goes with squash. 

If you are ever frustrated with - LIFE, just go through the whole process. Read my captions, and you'll understand. 

The Attack of the Killer Tomato

The Sacrifice

Bobbing for Tomatoes

Peeling Some Skin

Naked Tomato Nest

Squeezing Some Guts

Are you growing anything in your garden this year?

Cinnamon Pickles

I remembered that my Grandma used to make Cinnamon Pickles.

When I brought this up to Travis he kind of rolled his eyes at me. We had already made Bread and Butter Pickles, Dill Pickles, Relish, and ate plenty of plain cucumbers.

He agreed. I did all the prep work of peeling the cucumbers, deseeding them, and slicing them up.

Since the process takes 3 days, he helped me out with the other days. Actually I agreed to make meals, while he dealt with the Cinnamon Pickles in the making.

Now we have one Cinnamon Pickle with our breakfast. They are pretty good.

I took a jar to work. Some students were a bit stand offish to try one. Other students jumped at the idea. I have a first year student that want to buy a jar. Ha! I don't even know what to charge.

Would you jump at the chance to try one, or would you be stand offish?

Cinnamon Pickles by Anonymous Nh7KbE4hof on Scribd

Canning and Preserving

Travis grew a ton of cucumbers, but no dill weed. This weekend I went to Ace Hardware to pick up more canning jars, and then to 3 grocery stores to buy dill weed.

Travis did the canning, but I helped with the prep work, meals and clan up.

Travis ran out of the pickle brine, so he decided to ferment the rest. He has a big fermentor crock I got him. 

Next we're going to have a ton of tomatoes. They're a little slow to turn red this year, but are well on their way. Last year I peels, and took the seeds out of the tomatoes, chopped them up and froze them. Then we canned in the fall a few times when it was cold outside. 

Do you do any canning, or do you grow your own food? I'd be lost without Travis. Especially this year I just couldn't be outside with my allergies. About the only thing I do is pick mulberries for 10 minutes each day when I'm at work. I get a small bowl full each day, but there is starting to be less and less of them. I just wash them, cut their stems off and add them to smoothies.

Canning Mustaches

I had a dream last weekend that I was canning with Aunt Terra. Only we weren't canning jam this time.

We were canning Daddy's mustaches. He cut many off over periods of time. We boiled them in water, added the pectin in to preserve them.

They were the perfect little mustaches in mason jars.

It is no lie that I'm a crazy sleeper. I have messed up dreams!

What is the craziest dream you have ever had?