tomatoes

Our Garden is Not Beautiful

08.25.2011 Gardening
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Our garden does not always look beautiful. In fact, the post I planned to write today is all about the ugly things that are happening in our garden. One of the perils of gardening in Astoria (part of NYC) is that our love for the outdoors is not always shared by everyone that has access [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 3

08.24.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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If you’ve been following our canning adventures you know that it hasn’t all just fallen into place. WT did his last away gig for the summer season last week and when he returned there was a counter full of tomatoes and boxes of canning tools. Now we just needed to make sauce and can it. [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 2

08.16.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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OK. We ran into one major problem. If you read part one you know that we had our heart set on procuring a pressure canner and setting forth on our canning adventures. It turned out that no kitchen stores in NYC selling pressure canners are open weekends. There were endless displays of water bath canners and [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 1

08.13.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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So we are up to our ears with Basil and tomatoes. It is clear that we need to save some for the winter, but we have never canned anything before. We wanted to bring you into our process. What do we need to buy? First we read this about canning. We don’t love jam, and [...]

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Tomatoes- We Grow and Shrink Them

08.10.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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The tomatoes are literally falling off of the vine. We have been eating cherry tomatoes on everything since July started, but now there are just tomatoes everywhere!   Now Erich has a particular passion for sun dried tomatoes, but his love for the raw fruit is almost none. We decided that with all of this [...]

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