If you read my first blog post than you know that I was up until the wee hours of Sunday morning. By the wee hours I mean 5:00 a.m. Not partying hard...not streaking naked down the street (not that ANYONE would want to see that). No...this wild and crazy chickie was canning. Yep...CANNING! Making a couple of different tomato based sauces to get my family through the upcoming year. Now I do not want to freak any of you out by making you think that this is some horrific project to undertake. It takes time...yes...it does. The important thing to remember is to start EARLY in the day. Not at 5:00 p.m. That was our mistake this time around. This was not my first time at the canning rodeo..and I definitely knew better. I just couldn't help myself. I intended to get one sauce completed on Saturday and the second sauce completed on Sunday. Well...Saturday OBVIOUSLY blended into Sunday..but that's fine. The end result is the same (though I still appear to be carrying Samonsites around under my eyes). We now have 22 jars of tomato basil sauce and 13 jars of roasted garlic and pepper sauce and I couldn't be happier.
Well, we have tons going on this week. I'm hoping to make a Magnifico Meatball Pie for dinner tonight. This is not an original recipe of mine..nope. This is a recipe that I found in one of my old BH&G Special Publications. I believe from 2010. The recipe is an interesting take on spaghetti and meatballs layered in a spring form pan. I'll update everyone on how that goes and will post pics as well. The hubby also took some pics during the canning process. We'll be sure to get some of those on here as well. Here is one montage of our process. Yes, I did manage to smile through most of this ordeal.
To quote a cooking icon and one of my idols "Bon Appetit!"
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