Attack of the killer tomatoes

Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Sacha Chua

Vine-ripened tomatoes were on sale at No Frills, so we bought some 15
pounds of plump, red, juicy, fragrant tomatoes. Mmm! We wanted to try
canning our own sauce, so we picked up mason jars as well. As it
turned out, canning your own vegetarian spaghetti sauce looks like a
difficult process if you want to minimize the risk of food poisoning.
We opted for the easy way out instead, freezing the spaghetti sauce
flat in freezer bags. It came to about 4 liters of sauce. Where did
all the rest of the tomatoes go? Probably splattered around the
kitchen… it was a mess!

I had a lot of fun pulping what seemed like a hundred tomatoes. I
simply couldn’t stay awake long enough to see the process through, but
W- kept the simmering sauce company late into the night. We look
forward to trying some of it soon. I hope we actually managed to save
time and money in the process, or it’ll be one of those
once-in-a-lifetime adventures. ;) (As long as it’s not an
end-of-a-lifetime adventure, right?)

On Technorati: cooking

Random Emacs symbol: rfc2231-get-value – Function: Return the value of ATTRIBUTE from CT.

More posts about: cooking // Add Comment »

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/4355

On This Day...

2011: Learning new tricks about learning: maps and history — From Tuesday: J- has started Grade 8, the year before high school. Last schoolyear, we invested more time into helping [...]
2010: ‘round the bend — You know those moments in formulaic movies. Our heroes hit their lowest points. Everything looks stressful. Then something changes, and [...]
2009: Quick thoughts — I’m starting to accumulate a backlog of things to write about. Life is too interesting to capture, and yet too [...]
2008: Drupal and Drush: Updating the database from the command-line — So now that we’re doing all our configuration changes in source code, it makes sense to automate database updates as [...]
2008: Drupal: Deploying two branches to three systems — To keep track of the bugfixes we’ll need to make for our next release, I’ve created a Subversion branch called [...]
2008: Working on a small project — Working on a small project means that I wear multiple hats, and that’s helping me grow so much as a [...]
2007: Weekly review — Here are the highlights of the last week: Finally got my paperwork together for the post-graduate work permit! After following up [...]
2006: Wow. Statistics can be fun. — I have a new favorite statistics textbook. Not that I had one before. Who knew that a statistics textbook could [...]
2006: Self-portrait with vintage hat — One of the things that surprises people is that as high-tech and plugged in as I am, I still have an [...]
2006: Twice-baked potatoes — One of the simple joys in life is waking up (relatively) early on a weekend morning and preparing a proper [...]
2006: Networking party in New York that I really, really want to go to — The Greater IBM Initiative is having its first party in New York City on Thursday, Sept 21. I really, really [...]
2005: Silk-screening workshop — Peach Berserk‘s silk-screening workshop looks amazing. I love their dresses, but not their prices! <laugh> Let’s start out by silkscreening something small, and [...]
2005: Geekwear — I actually like wearing geek swag: clothes and accessories with a logo or geek reference. Geek swag identifies me to other [...]
2005: Places to shop — ACT TWO 596 Mount Pleasant, 416-487-2486 Designer cast-offs CHOCKY’S 352 Queen West, 416-977-1831; 2584 Yonge, 416-483-8227 Pajamas and jackets ENDS 1930 Queen East, 416-699-2271, etc. Wool overcoats, etc. JO’S [...]
2003: Linux in Education links — http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/tricki/
2003: Plans for CS21A tomorrow — I think we’ll have fun. =) A lecture on searching and sorting - modified slides, whiz through most of it and [...]
2003: CS1 site — - http://www.cs.up.ac.za/javagently/ListEx.html has a lot of examples, and it has an overarching project. Hmm. Stuff seems to come from the Java Gently [...]
2003: Interesting words — - http://phrontistery.50megs.com/ - http://phrontistery.50megs.com/scrabble3.html
2003: Hare Race — That didn’t go too well; not polished enough. The exercise is at HareRace-20030916.jar just in case.
2002: (Mon Sep 16:23 2002, *Messages*) — Fixed planner remember bug – context was getting picked up after the switch of buffer.
2002: (Mon Sep 16:59 2002, 2002.09.16) — Jean Paul Sartre self-making essentialism
2002: (Mon Sep 16:34 2002, 2002.09.16) — http://www.jobstreet.com.ph/career/streetwise/women8.htm
2002: (Mon Sep 16:52 2002, 2002.09.16) — http://www.xref-tech.com/

sacha chua living an awesome life