canning salsa

I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, but this is what i did:

6 cups diced tomatoes from garden/farmers market
2.5 cups diced onions
2 cups sliced jalapeño peppers, red peppers, and green peppers
3 tbs lemon extract
couple pinches salt
3 tbs olive oil
1.5 bunches of cilantro
couple spoonfuls tomato paste


combine everything but tomatoes and tomato paste and food process it.
Then add it to tomatoes (they may need to be drained) and simmer in pan for 5 min.  add paste as needed for consistency.  then boil in sterilized jars for 20 min according to canning principles.  voila.

we will see how it goes.

PS
1 pound whole tomatoes
2 or 3 Chilies (serranos are my favorite, but jalapenos work, too)
3 or 4 cloves of unpeeled garlic
1 small onion, sliced into rings
cilantro, lime juice, and salt

Broil the tomatoes, chilies, and garlic until their skins are blackened. Broil the onion rings, too, but only until they brown.

Peel the charred skin off of the tomatoes, chilies, and garlic. Process everything in a food processor, then add cilantro, lime juice, and salt to taste.

zucchini bread

This is going to introduce a new type of recipe, a kind for times you want to get rid of an ingredient before it spoils.  They will be called "Recipes to eliminate excess." Today i had excessive zuccini, so I made bread.  I have also recently made banana bread in a similar way.

http://www.squidoo.com/zucchini-bread-recipe

3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil *substitute apple sauce for oil!
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
2 cups pure white sugar
3 cups grated zucchini
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups multi purpose flour
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Crunchy Crust Topping
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup multi-purpose flour
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
3 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped walnuts.
Crunchy Topping Directions
Mix it all together really well and crumble on top of the batter prior to baking. The topping cooks crisp and adds just what the bread needs.

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F ( 165 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8x4 inch loaf pans.
2. In a large bowl, beat eggs until light and frothy. Mix in oil and sugar. Stir in zucchini and vanilla. Combine flour, cinnamon, soda, baking powder, salt and nuts; stir into the egg mixture. Divide batter into prepared pans.
4. Sprinkle crunchy topping mixture over top
5. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes, or until done

SIDE NOTE: i baked both at once and it took twice as long, even upped to 350.  Also i didnt have walnuts so i just did it without them.

Jam and toast

Complicated things are easy when you follow the instructions on the ingredients packets.

for instance, following the recipe on bread flower gets you excellent home made bread.  Use the regular yeast, not the dry kind.

following the recipe from the Ball company can get you great jam.  use dry pectin versus the liquid kind.

ice cream to end world hunger

1. can low fat sweetened condensed milk
2. can low fat evaporated milk
3. 2% milk
4. vanilla
5.  mashed up fruit

put all ingredients in ice cream machine (turn it on) and wait.  store it in the freezer in the metal container its made in, preferably removing the mixer first.

onion health

http://www.theonion.com/audio/allnatural-food-preservative-causes-allnatural-can,17639/

"all natural food preservative causes all natural cancer"

8 foods

http://www.cracked.com/article_18549_8-health-foods-that-are-bad-your-health.html


vitamin water
bran muffins
cereal bars and granola
chewable vitamins
fish
fast food salads
protein shakes
herbal supplements