Not a bad day, all things considered

[thebratqueen]

Today involved laundry, a trip to the farmer's market, and getting a pedicure. All good uses of a sunny summer day, if you ask me.

The farmer's market provided me with tomatoes and bread, which got added to pasta, garlic, parmesan, and basil (from my own plant) to make a very yummy dinner. This was part and parcel of getting the hang of the steps involved in canning tomatoes so that I have them down by the time I actually do canning later in the season.

Tonight's step was peeling and coring. Peeling went fine (60 secs in the boiling water before I put the pasta in, then dunked into ice water). Coring I feel I'm not quite getting the hang of. I mean I did it, I just feel that somehow I could've done it better.

So, anyone have any tips for how to easily core/deseed peeled tomatoes? The lines are open, call in! =)

Comments

[theantijoss]

Canning is something it would take some VERY SERIOUS circumstances to get me to attempt, so I'm afraid I'm no help there. But there is just something so satisfying about making a meal at least in part that came out of your own garden, isn't there? I can hardly wait for harvest this year!