When life deals you lemons....🍋

[MITCHELL]

The fresh salsa and the BLTs wow.

[JohnMckroidJr]

Lots of good organic stuff there...... where's the Lemonade?

[MITCHELL]

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Originally Posted by JohnMckroidJr

Lots of good organic stuff there...... where's the Lemonade?

But there's going to be lemon juice in my last harvest of canned tomatoes 🍅 stay tuned, tomatoes 🍅 in my fridge, tomatoes in my freezer, tomatoes on my shelf.
Tomatoes in my tuna ect.....

[MITCHELL]

But a first time for home grown tomatoes 🍅 basil garlic
One lid did not seal can't wait to add to onions garlic saut?ing in olive oil for whole wheat pasta dish.going with Ramada cheese and maybe add one of my canned tuna. Stay tuned 😎 you might say a filler for the belly and between fish reports
This is only the second vegetable garden I have planted.
Two things I will do different next year if I plant 🪴 again will be start seedlings earlier I still have green tomatoes on the vine and if your going to germinate 2 seeds make sure you kill the weaker one which I did not causing over crowding and a lot of chopping back from over growth also pull tomato suckers sooner. The local cat 🐈 kelp the rats 🐀 away no need to set traps.

[MITCHELL]

I'll probably make a marinara sauce so jars are fuller.
Or grind up tomatoes better. They were basically raw and blanched in boiling water for one minute and some of the skin removed. Skin on or off is not really that big of a deal to me. But taste is everything. I better have at least one good tasting meal every day. I see why Gordon ramsay blows his ass when it taste bad. But I have alot of respect for him because he exposed all the dead sharks hiding on roof tops waiting to sell for shark fin soup, in a TV show.

[MITCHELL]

And eating half as much as I used to, a good tasting meal, is everything in the day. Shitty meal Shitty day you might say. 🙃

[MITCHELL]

Beef stake tomatoes 🍅 with ribeye and coconut 🥥 shrimp and cheese cake

[MITCHELL]

And a balsamic vinegar olive oil
Garlic brown sugar honey 🍯 dressing around the edges
And lots of crushed black ⚫️ pepper
BTW...Took the picture before I added the red onions 🌰

[MITCHELL]

Fresh off the vine, pizza sauce
It's not like we're overwhelmed with fish reports

[MITCHELL]

To room temperature 🌡 before add to pizza dough

[MITCHELL]

Added, trauma free pizza 🥖
You might say. By no means am I a veg head.

[MITCHELL]

Wow 👌mozzarella Romano cheese mix.

[MITCHELL]

I don't even miss the pepperoni or sausage ect....

[MITCHELL]

Tomato Basil marinara sauce from the pizza 🍕
So were going right into a pasta dish.
Sharing the harvest

[MITCHELL]

Canned tuna and Canned tomatoe basil.
Combined, the favors there...all natural just added
water 💧 debating adding finely chopped carrots, celery, onions and relish like I always do with my tuna and alittle mayo.
But it's so good now I don't want to ruin the favor.
I'll have to try just half and half.

Doing a taste test both are excellent tasting it comes down to a mood thing 😋

[MITCHELL]

Crackers

[PapaDave]

How do you 'can' your fish? I'm familiar with canning things like fruit, but have never tried it on fish.

[MITCHELL]

Originally Posted by PapaDave

How do you 'can' your fish? I'm familiar with canning things like fruit, but have never tried it on fish.

From the Time your pressure cooker weight starts hissing and rocking slow, cooking time is 90 to100 minutes. I cut up fish into 1ins pieces raw and stuff sterilized 12oz Mason jars full. I like to cut out the dark meat and cook that separate in a pan with butter lemon and hot sauce and eat right away if fresh.
Getting back to canning. I first put salt 1/2 teasp jalape?o skin 1 Tbs olive oil, garlic clove and stuff raw fish yellowtail or yellow fin pretty much taste the same canned
Packed in jars add drinking water to the bottom of the threads of Mason jar. Then I take a knife 🔪 and get all the air bubbles out of jars and cut through the fish at the same time because I mash it up anyway but never fill more water than to bottom of threads. Put bands on jars finger tight don't over tighten important. I use a 7qt presto pressure cooker it holds 7 small mouth 12oz jars
Fill add hot water 3/4 full close and cook.

[MITCHELL]

What was green turned red, easy to spot....
Tomato 🍅 basil

[MITCHELL]

You only want to can fish that is oily