Does anyone have any good recipes for cherry tomatoes? Especially CANNING recipes?!?! I could REALLY use some. Can you use them to make tomato sauce, etc? I harvest about five pints DAILY!!!
I don't have the recipe, but my mom and I used to can them. They are TERRIFIC for stewed tomatos (which we put on grits, or stewed with okra, but you could probably use it for a really yummy sweet marinara sauce).
Well I can be of little to no help here because cherry tomatoes simply do not last around our house. My kids could eat them by the bucketful. They just pop them in their mouths and enjoy! LOL!
I am so sorry we couldn't make it to the birthday party. I was just feeling so rotten and tired and I couldn't think about doing much of anything. To top it off it was pouring down the rain and the thought of driving an hour wasn't at the top of my list either. Maybe we can try to get together one day near the end of the month/beginning of next. I do want to get her something for her birthday...she's into the whole princess, girly thing isn't she? I love that Lizzie still loves that kind of stuff. I think I mentioned to you before about hitting the after Halloween sales for cute girly princess stuff...we don't really do the Halloween thing...sometimes we go to a local church Harvest fest and they wear a positive costume (nothing evil, etc...) and they do dress as their favorite Bible character for AWANA but we don't do the whole trick or treating, decorating, etc...stuff. Last year I happened to be at Walmart a day or so after Halloween and the costumes were like 75 or 80 percent off...cute princess costumes, brides, etc... Guess no one wants to be those things anymore...sad huh? Anyway I got an amazing trunkful of costumes and accessories for our dress up box for under 20 dollars! Lizzie mentioned to me yesterday that she hopes we can do the same thing this year! Thank you for your comments on me feeling inadequate. It helps me to know that others struggle at times with those feelings. I too have to constantly remind myself that everyone has their strengths and weaknesses in their homemaking and in their mothering and that while they may be stronger in one area than I am that doesn't mean that I am not strong in another area. I sometimes envy your gift of hospitality because it seems that no matter how hard I strive to be more hospitable I end up totally stressed. Yet I know I have other strengths and that maybe hospitality is just one area I need to work on more. Well I've rambled on and one here so I guess I better go. The kids are dancing to some of their Bible song tapes now and doing a little concert here...LOL...even Lydia is bopping along with them. It's so cute. Let me know what your schedule looks like towards the end of the month into early next. I know Rich and I are going away to Lancaster (alone) around Columbus Day but other than that I don't think we have many plans.
Rebecca, if your making sauce or such from them, I'd just chop them in the food processor and leave the skins on. I do my normal tomatoes that way to. They are so find chopped that you never see them. And the seeds of cherry tomatoes are so tiny you can leave them in to. I've read it makes a great paste that you can dehydrate also!
Hi... found you through Jen Ig's blog. GORGEOUS picture up at the top. I'm no help on the tomato score... but I thought I'd mention that your blog and your obvious love for your family is rather beautiful :).
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I don't have the recipe, but my mom and I used to can them. They are TERRIFIC for stewed tomatos (which we put on grits, or stewed with okra, but you could probably use it for a really yummy sweet marinara sauce).
Did you have to skin them or did you just leave the skins on?
Well I can be of little to no help here because cherry tomatoes simply do not last around our house. My kids could eat them by the bucketful. They just pop them in their mouths and enjoy! LOL!
I am so sorry we couldn't make it to the birthday party. I was just feeling so rotten and tired and I couldn't think about doing much of anything. To top it off it was pouring down the rain and the thought of driving an hour wasn't at the top of my list either. Maybe we can try to get together one day near the end of the month/beginning of next. I do want to get her something for her birthday...she's into the whole princess, girly thing isn't she? I love that Lizzie still loves that kind of stuff.
I think I mentioned to you before about hitting the after Halloween sales for cute girly princess stuff...we don't really do the Halloween thing...sometimes we go to a local church Harvest fest and they wear a positive costume (nothing evil, etc...) and they do dress as their favorite Bible character for AWANA but we don't do the whole trick or treating, decorating, etc...stuff. Last year I happened to be at Walmart a day or so after Halloween and the costumes were like 75 or 80 percent off...cute princess costumes, brides, etc... Guess no one wants to be those things anymore...sad huh? Anyway I got an amazing trunkful of costumes and accessories for our dress up box for under 20 dollars! Lizzie mentioned to me yesterday that she hopes we can do the same thing this year!
Thank you for your comments on me feeling inadequate. It helps me to know that others struggle at times with those feelings. I too have to constantly remind myself that everyone has their strengths and weaknesses in their homemaking and in their mothering and that while they may be stronger in one area than I am that doesn't mean that I am not strong in another area. I sometimes envy your gift of hospitality because it seems that no matter how hard I strive to be more hospitable I end up totally stressed. Yet I know I have other strengths and that maybe hospitality is just one area I need to work on more.
Well I've rambled on and one here so I guess I better go. The kids are dancing to some of their Bible song tapes now and doing a little concert here...LOL...even Lydia is bopping along with them. It's so cute.
Let me know what your schedule looks like towards the end of the month into early next. I know Rich and I are going away to Lancaster (alone) around Columbus Day but other than that I don't think we have many plans.
Blessings,
Jennifer
Rebecca, if your making sauce or such from them, I'd just chop them in the food processor and leave the skins on. I do my normal tomatoes that way to. They are so find chopped that you never see them. And the seeds of cherry tomatoes are so tiny you can leave them in to.
I've read it makes a great paste that you can dehydrate also!
Hi... found you through Jen Ig's blog. GORGEOUS picture up at the top. I'm no help on the tomato score... but I thought I'd mention that your blog and your obvious love for your family is rather beautiful :).
Blessings,
Rachel
if only you had a husband like john who could consume five pints a day, you'd be all set.
(of course, then you'd have no delicious canned cherry tomatoes for the winter...)
I would love to get my hands on some of your tomato sauce! Wish I could run over and help you make it!
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