Thursday, September 10, 2009 in country living

We like the sauce

Tomato sauce, that is. And a good thing, too as our neighbours with the u-pick overplanted tomatoes. We ran over there last night because of the frost warning and picked three cloth grocery bags full of tomatoes in various stages of ripe, but mostly green.

It was 43 and a half pounds.

we also picked up a fifty pound bag of butternut squash. Or buttercup? I mix them up, it’s the green ones that look like UFOs. Yes, that is a lot of pie, but the thing maybe a lot of people don’t realize is as long as the squash is kept cool and dry they will keep for most of the winter. Easily through to January.

(and my mom will steal some)

Anyway, the cost of this bounty? $25.

Yeah, you read that right. Twenty five dollars.

And if the frost didn’t kill off too many, I will probably go back and get more because I hate to see them all go to waste. Besides, sauce making is really easy. :)

making tomato sauce

(Food mill purchased here.)

Comments

  1. melanie says:

    ooh, I like your gadget!

    do you only use those squash in pies? we eat them steamed or in stir-fry as a vegetable.

    If you get tiny tomatoes you can freeze them whole on a tray, then bag them. The cook up great in a frypan then, right from frozen, to have on toast – just like fresh poached tomatoes.