Sunday, September 4, 2011

Bolt's First Egg !

Before moving the goat fence to include fresh raspberry bushes, we discovered something round by the roofing of the goats and chickens's house.  First, we thought that it was a mushroom, just because it was located in a dark space, but later when I went to move their house, I picked it up and it was an egg!

Our girls are maturing and looking pretty good.  They like to be with the goats because then haven't flown outside of the electric fence in a while.  Lindo is working on a permanent goat shed while I was picking our ripe tomatoes to make ketchup.

I pretty much followed my own taste buds to make the ketchup.


First
Collect, clean and quarter all tomatoes you want to use (I even used cherry tomatoes)
I probably used 7-8 pounds this time

Second 
Put them in huge pot with a chopped onion and a chopped sweet pepper 
Have them cook in medium high heat for a while ..... a long time in other words

Third
I added distilled white vinegar (1 cup) and sugar (1 cup) 
1 TBSP of salt and 1 tsp of allspice 
KEEP STIRRING IT AND LOWER TO MEDIUM HEAT 

Fourth 
I used a hand-held blender to blend everything once the mixture had a thick consistency 
KEEP STIRRING 

Fifth 
Let it cook for a while more until it looks like ketchup 
Meanwhile, get your ball jars ready and lids and water canner 

Sixth 
Run the mixture thru a food mill to get rid of seeds and skins of tomatoes 
Pour ketchup into jars, clean the mouth of jars 
Process in the hot water canner for 10 minutes 
I canned 6  (8 oz) jars 

ENJOY IN THE WINTER !


Fugee and Asa at a glance !


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