Ready For The New Week...

Sunday Canning

Sunday began with a resolve to get a little canning and more laundry done. Handsome helped carry and move things for me which really lightened the load. Last week we bought a bushel of beautiful McIntosh apples from the local orchard for applesauce, pie filling and fresh pies. Neighbors Pete and Dawn also shared a box of tomatoes that needed attention, so Sunday was the day!

Handsome brought in one of our Nesco™ roasters and we cut up the apples together. We loaded the quartered apples into the roaster to cook down for a couple hours. We also cut up Roma tomatoes, added onions, garlic, and avocado oil and popped those into the oven to roast.

I peeled, cored, and chopped a number of apples to make pie filling so I could make some hand pies later today. I planned everything to stagger filling the jars, and I processed the pizza sauce in the stovetop canner while the applesauce went into my Kilner™ pot after milling out all the seeds and skins from the roasted apples. Those filled jars went onto the porch where I had my electric canner set up to process them.

When all was said and done, we had eight half pint jars of roasted tomato pizza sauce, one and a half pints of pie filling, and eight quarts of applesauce. We still have a half bushel of apples left to make more pie filling to can, and fresh pies...and more tomatoes that I may make into tomato basil soup.

Clean Kitchen

Handsome and I both tackled the myriad pots and pans, tools, and canning supplies that needed to be washed. I also reorganized the jars, lids, etc. for the next session this week. By the end of the day, our kitchen was back to normal...

Clean Pantry

and so was the pantry. I still have canning jars in the box on the counter, but I'll be using those soon, so there was no reason to put them away for now. I'd just have to haul them up from the basement again.  

We had a light dinner, and then decided to turn in early (for us). I have a therapy session this morning, and my knee (which I treated well through the weekend) is all ready for it. Afterward, I'm planning to take it easy. No canning today.