Feeding the Family from Bottles

Well, the week of October 10th my friend and I had the great idea to bottle salsa. My friend has never bottle salsa and I have never done it without the great experienced teacher, Lucy. I called my friend on Wed. morning and we set out to Lucys for some salsa making, we ended up making 14 jars of salsa. Yum! Yum!.

On Friday I still had a ton of tomatoes left over from our salsa making adventure, so I decide to make chili sauce, I once again have never made this on my own, but thought what the heck it can't be that hard so I did and it wasn't hard at all just real time consuming with blanching, peeling, cutting, squishing and draining the juice off the tomatoes....an all day process when taking care of kids at the same time. The pictures below are of my chili sauce, I made 10 pints and gave 3 to my friend. The way your house smells when bottling salsa or chili sauce is absolutely delicious. 

I can't wait till I can bottle some more stuff, I do have 25 pints of green beans that Lucy canned earlier in the summer for me. I did however  plant, water and baby the green beans in my own little garden.
It has to cook down for 2-3 hours, you can see in the pic where it started out in the pan.