Where in the world did we get the idea to make Salsa as wedding favors?? Well we decided to plant a garden this year. So we went out and bought all kinds of plants: Strawberry, Lettuce, Potato, Tomato, Green Pepper, Jalapeno pepper, Cucumbers, Carrots, & Peas. Clearly we went overboard. We had a large garden (mostly full of tomatoes) then we had buckets along the side for potatoes, carrots, and a box of seeds in potting soil. Before we knew it we had loads of green tomatoes.
One night Kurt & I were sitting at home talking about a variety of topics and at one point we started talking about our wedding favors and came up with nothing good. We then moved on and later began talking about our garden and I asked the question.
"what in the world are we going to do with all of those tomatoes" without thinking about it Kurt said "lets make salsa!" And a wedding favor was born!
Salsa is actually really easy to make. First we washed all the tomatoes and removed and spots.
After the spots are removed you place the tomato's in to a pot of boiling water (roaring boil). Leave them for three minutes and then remove. The skins slide right off.
Once you remove the skin you try to remove as many of the tomato seeds as you can.....this part takes a long time!
Before we removed the seeds!
We did not do as good with this as we probably should. Once you have finished you should not be able to see large clumps of seeds.
Once all the seeds have been removed we placed the large chunks of tomato in my Pampered Chef Chopper and it worked like magic.
After all the tomatoes had been chopped we put them back in the pot to boil with the pepper, onions, and seasoning mix.
During this time you must also wash all the canning jars so that they are ready to go and then keep them warm so that you are putting warm salsa into a warm glass jar.
The Salsa process is a long one!! The longest portion being the water bath sealing. For some reason I did not take any pictures of that part of the process. It consist of filling a large pot with water and bringing it to a roaring boil. Then you place the sealed jars of salsa in the pot and let them boil for about 20 minutes until the seal sticks. Later we decorated them and put thank you notes on each one. We made enough for each couple to take one home. And a few extra for Kurt to eat because he really liked our salsa :) I hope you like it too.
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