this is the inside of a bell pepper, my daughter insisted it needed to be planted
This is my post for #freewriters 2590 prompt abundant hosted by @mariannewest
One of the other fishermen called and said he was given an abundance of zucchini squash, did we want any? My husband told him no because our freezer was full. I told him to call him back because I will can it.
The fisherman came and opened the trunk of his car, he had an abundant of zucchini, the trunk was half full of it. I got what I thought would fill the pressure canner, he wanted me to take more but I did not want that many.
After he put the jars in the canner my husband went to his computer and later he said he researched canning zucchini and all the State University sites say don't do it, he says, "I am not eating it if you can it like that".
I guess you have to put something acidic with the zucchini. All I had a lot of was cans of tomato sauce, so I googled, can I use it to can zucchini and yes I can. Now I googled how much tomato sauce do I add to a quart jar of zucchini to pressure can it? It takes 1 cup of sauce to the quart jar of zucchini. I also put a couple of leaves of fresh basil in each jar.
So in the end, what did I do?
I turned 4 cans of tomato sauce into 7 quart jars of tomato sauce. And I found out I did not need to pressure can it since I added the tomato sauce, it could have gone into a water bath canner. It was one of THOSE days. :(
photos are mine
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