Salsa!

The weekend of August 4-5th, was Heath's weekend to make his salsa. He didn't get to make a lot last year, so he was ready to put in long hours to replenish his stash, and, of course, he always shares with family and friends. 

The boys and I had picked up the tomatoes and some tabasco peppers for him earlier in the week, but he also had lots of cowhorn peppers from our garden that he was going to use, too. He started Saturday afternoon blanching, cutting and chopping. By Sunday night, he had it all made and canned it all. 

Lovely red tomatoes - not as good as the ones from Chandler Mt., but they were good.

These are tiny tabasco peppers, the only hot peppers we could find this year.

This empty tub would eventually be filled to the brim with salsa!

Here it is - before the process began.

Cash was more than willing to help, and Heath reported that he was an actual help this year. Here he is stirring the mixture.

This is where he was a big help. Heath would peel the tomatoes and slice them. Then Cash would put them in the chopper. Heath could barely keep up.

Baylen, on the other hand, had fun with the chopper, but wasn't as focused and only stayed with it for a few minutes.

Lots of empty jars and two happy Doggetts.

Here's the canning process. Heath uses his big safety gloves so he won't have to constantly be reaching for pot holders. After many, many years of this, he's got his process down to an art.