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2011-08-13 09:31 pm
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Oh Yum

So I have two tomato bushes at the moment that are giving me red fruit. (Others are heading in that direction, but their fruit is still sizing up and green.) One is an Amish Paste tomato, which is a Roma-type, and the other is Bloody Butcher, which gives off... mmm, not cherry tomatoes, but not full-sized ones either. About an inch and a half diameter. And while I'd made the AP tomatoes sitting on the counter into salsa, I still had a colander full of the BB tomatoes.

Fortunately Marisa of Food in Jars sensed my dilemma all the way from the other side of the country and posted a list of five ways to preserve small tomatoes. Being tight on freezer space at the moment, not having a dehydrator, and still having plenty of tomato jam from last year, I went with roasted tomatoes. Which, once they cooled down a bit, are seriously delish. Especially atop a slice of fresh sourdough bread.

I may have to try her tomato pickles recipe too. The bush probably has another colander's worth of ripe tomatoes still on it, you see....
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2011-03-22 10:03 pm
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Canning (Sorta) Win!

Thanks to the brilliance of [livejournal.com profile] meallanmouse and [livejournal.com profile] mmouse15, I have successfully made Sweet Preserved Kumquats. I zested the lemons involved before juicing them, and tossed the zest in with sugar to make Lemon Sugar. I have to say, though there seems to be no difference in juiciness between the smooth and bumpy skinned lemons my tree throws out, the smooth ones are a bit easier to zest....

As we had fish for dinner, I pulled the jar of Preserved Lemons I'd made last month out of the fridge, cut a quarter-lemon free, rinsed it off, and sliced it thinly to go on the fish. It wasn't as utterly brilliant as I've read some people rhapsodize about it being, but was nice and went well on the fish as a condiment. Wonderful Husband tasted the lemonyness of it; I (being sensitized to sodium now) tasted mostly the salt. Either way, I think it'll be worth keeping a jar of it in the fridge.