Canning

So I canned my first batch of peaches.  We haven't tried them yet, so I hope they turned out good.  I didn't have a big enough pot so since the cans had to be emerged in water I flipped them upside down.  They all sealed, so it worked.  Just hope they taste fine when we open one.  :)  I am like my mother and like to cut corners sometimes, I didn't follow a recipe either.  :)  I do however remember when I use to help my mom can when I was younger.  Oh the fond memories of peeling the peaches and then helping pour the sugar water in the can.  

I also have a thing for making freezer strawberry jam.  It's so fun!  And when I get a lot of fruit I can't help but make jam.  We got tons of peaches from our neighbors across the street.  So I made peach freezer jam. I still have some frozen peaches I could use to make more jam.  My kids favorite jam is the strawberry jam.  So next time they are on sale I want to get a ton and make more jam.  :)

My next project will be to make homemade salsa.  Now for some tomatoes and jalapenos.  My Visiting Teacher gave me some tomatoes and said she'd give me some jalapenos.  But we had to use the tomatoes so they wouldn't go bad.  I think a few of them went bad though.  :(

I need to find some kind of salsa that uses zucchini, we have some frozen zucchini in our freezer and some more growing in our garden.  :)  It's so fun to say that.  Our garden.  I hope I can have a successful garden again next year.   Speaking of our garden, I think we have a few tomatoes growing.  :)  We weren't as successful with those.  Hopefully next time as well.