Great John’s Stewed Tomatoes
Great Grandma and Great John met in 2010 on Christian
Mingle. Now meeting someone online and falling
in love is very common among computer savvy young adults and so it was that we
were all surprised when Great Grandma who is 70 something fell in love with
John 80 something.
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| Great John and Great Grandma Audrey on John's side deck September 2, 2013 |
Great John got his name from Ruth. Ruth at the age of three decided that
because he was Great Grandma’s special friend, he had to be great and thus to
our family he has become Great John.
Great John planted four raised vegetable beds this
spring. Three right off his side deck
and one out back of the garage.
He used cinder blocks to create the frame for his garden and
filled in with mixture of garden soil and fertilizer.
He planted 17 tomato plants, eggplant and
green peppers. As you can see his garden has been abundant and he has
started to can his tomatoes.
Great John’s Stewed Tomatoes
As many people of his generation he does not measure his
ingredients. He uses:
Tomatoes, and green peppers all from his garden adding celery
and onions from the grocery store.
He quarters the tomatoes and chopped all the other vegetable
fine.
In a dutch oven he places the chopped vegetables on the
bottom with the tomatoes on top. He cooks this on medium low heat and stirs only when the tomatoes have given up some of their juice and then as infrequently as
possible only to prevent the vegetables on the bottom from burning.
You should adjust the ratio of vegetables to tomatoes to
reflect your personal tastes and you should also add salt, pepper and other
favourite spices to taste.
Once your
stewed tomato mixture meets your taste preference and has cook for about 15 minutes. Divide the mixture and
juice evenly into sterilized mason jars.
John uses a pressure cooker.
Once the pressure cooker is freely steaming he adds the pressure stopper
and cooks the jars at 11 lbs. pressure for 20 minutes
Grandma Snyder
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