Comments on: My day of canning spaghetti sauce

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:04:54 +0000

I can so relate to this story! We also live in Houston and visit the Farmers’ Market on a regular basis. We have a rather large vegetable garden and take our purple hull and black-eyed peas over to Ray’s Produce (across from Canino’s) to have them shelled ($5 for about 30 pounds of peas is well worth the trip). Our home-grown green beans didn’t turn out for us this Fall, so we decided to buy a bushel from Ray. It literally took my husband and I two days to prepare the beans and can them, but we ended up with 38 pints of green beans and they are well worth the effort. Fresh is best, and canning gets easier once you get the hang of it. We just didn’t know what kind of project we were getting into when we came home with a bushel of green beans!

By: K.Reshma

K.Reshma — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:18:10 +0000

Yummy recipes

By: DM

DM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:53:38 +0000

Krista, I think its wonderful you’re canning. I have done it for years. My tomatos alone yield me home made tomato juice, salsa, and chili sauce. Next year I’m going to try your spaghetti sauce. Thank you for posting this recipe!!!
Canning is so easy, and you know what your eating. Much healthier.

By: Tawni

Tawni — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:03:37 +0000

There is an easier way to can tomatoes ( And spaghetti sauce for that matter ). And you dont even need to use whatever contraption you were using to seal the jars. You keep the jars and lids hot untill you pour your tomatoes into the jars, once you put the tomatoes in add a pinch of salt and close the lids very very tightly, use a rubber grip. And then flip them upside down on top of a towel. The heat from everything will cause a vacuum and it will make a nice seal. They will keep up to a year this way. Trust me thats a family canning secret at least 100+ years that I have just given to the world.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:21:02 +0000

I live in Houston too! I love the Market on Airline, there is also a great new spice company across the street. They have wonderful fresh spices and hard to find items (not found in the common grocery stores here in Houston). You have inspired me to visit there this weekend to buy bulk tomatoes. Thanks

By: Elaine

Elaine — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:34:17 +0000

Yesterday I went out into our garden to pick a couple of tomatoes and to my surprise found tons of ripe tomatoes!! Took me over an hour to pick them all because I had to keep coming inside to find more large bowls and sacks to keep filling. So this morning I have been canning tomatoes but then had the idea “why not make some homemade spaghetti sauce” – I made some a few years ago and everyone loves it, I still have some left downstairs in my food storage room. But found this recipe online and decided to use it. It looks like it will be yummy. Thanks. I love canning also just like Pam said above “it is so easy and you know what you’re eating” – I have done it for 25 years, tomatoes, peaches, applesauce, stewed apples, apple pie filling, spaghetti sauce. It’s the best and we have alot down in our food storage, so yeah we could live off what we have for a long time if we ever needed too.

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:02:23 +0000

By: Krista

Krista — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:55:40 +0000

Canning again in DC this morning. I just got a bushel of tomatoes from some local farmers so, in addition to just canning some of them plain, I think I’m going to mess around with a recipe for tomato chutney.