After I realized I wouldn't be canning any peaches yesterday, I decided to start in on some frozen tomatoes. We have a ton of tomatoes from last year still in the freezer, and we need more room in there, so I grabbed five of the gallon-sized bags of whole tomatoes and cooked those down into sauce. I ended up with 8 pints of sauce.
Once those were finished, I was still in the canning groove so I decided to try a new-to-me way to can dry beans. Instead of soaking and par-cooking them ahead of time, I put the pinto beans in the jar dry (raw), added seasoning and boiling water, then pressure canned them. These pintos were the ones we grew and dried ourselves. Not a bad return -- one seed packet in spring yielded 9 pints of cooked beans in late summer.
When those were done, I was still in the mood, so I canned 5 pints of garbanzo beans, using the same method as above. Homemade hummus, here we come!
While I was digging around in the freezer, I found some pie crust dough I'd made a while back, and a bag of frozen apple pie filling I'd made last year, so I made a pie.
And then, after all that, I ordered pizza for our supper. I know...it doesn't make sense to me, either.
