September 2010 Daring Cooks Challenge: Food Preservation

The September 2010 Daring Cooks’ challenge was hosted by John of Eat4Fun. John chose to challenge The Daring Cooks to learn about food preservation, mainly in the form of canning and freezing. He challenged everyone to make a recipe and preserve it. John’s source for food preservation information was from The National Center for Home Food Preservation.

The biggest challenge for me appears to be completing them on time - I have not once managed to post on reveal day, even on the rare occasions when I have been ready to do so. Oh, well, there's always next month.

One of the preserving recipes John suggested to us was roasted tomatoes. I decided to capitalise on the bounty in my landlord's garden:





This experience definitely convinced me to roast tomatoes more often. Very easy to do, and the kitchen smelled wonderful during the process.




I decided to puree the roasted tomatoes, which was one of John's suggestions, because you can never have too much tomato sauce.




My only complaint (aside from the acidity of the final product, which probably had more to do with the tomatoes I used than with the process) is the teeny-tiny amount of sauce that came from a pound of tomatoes!



I have lots of tomatoes left, so I think they too will be roasted before they join the little tub in the freezer!