Quote Originally Posted by TheGrey View Post
I've been busy. I bought Roma tomatoes at Sprouts when they were .44/lb- I bought a case of 25#. After washing them, I shoved them into a bunch of gallon Ziploc bags and put them in the chest freezer until I could devote ore time to them. Freezing the tomatoes makes them a snap to peel...but next time, I'm going to wash and core them (not a full core, but basically twisting the knife around the stem, and removing the white core) before I freeze them.

Peppers went on sale about a week after that, so I seeded them and froze them, too. I bought 5# of sweet onions and 5# of purple onions.

Today I finally had time, so I roughly chopped the onions and dumped them into my 18-quart electric turkey roaster along with the frozen pepper pieces. I realized then that I forgot to pick up garlic, but I had some minced garlic in the fridge so I threw in a heaping spoonful as well. I put my biggest pasta pot on the stove with water and set it to boil, scrubbed the sink clean and plugged it. I dumped in the frozen tomatoes, and dumped the boiling water on the tomatoes. The skins slicked right off! I tossed the skinned tomatoes into the roaster whole, set it on 375 degrees for about 5 hours, stirring occasionally. At the end of five hours, things had roasted and broken down to very soft pieces. I used my immersible blender to turn it into a chunky sauce, transferred it into wide-mouth pints with 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice and water-bath processed it for 25 minutes. I got 14 pints of tomato sauce that can be used for anything from chili to spaghetti sauce, depending on the spices I choose. Not bad for an afternoon!

One more thing: Zaycon foods (http://www.zayconfresh.com) is having an incredible sale on their chicken breasts- $1.67/lb. Most grocery stores will say they're having a good sale at $1.99/lb, and this is often chicken that has been processed in China. Zaycon bypasses all of that. If you're so inclined, PM me for a referral link (I get a little bit knocked off my next order) but there's no obligation. Don't wait for long, because the chicken will sell out fast at this price! The pick-up date is June 27.
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