Pizza / Green Tomato Salsa

I hope everyone is having a great day! Tuesday nights menu was PIZZA. I feel like the cookie monster when I say that. I think I love pizza as much as he does cookies! My portion of the pizza is the right side. We don't have to talk about what's hidden under all that cheese on Tony's side. ha I don't know about Tony's half of the pizza, but my half rocked! The sauce was made from canned diced fire roasted tomatoes. I had some vegan mozzarella sliced cheese, so I put a couple of slices of that over the sauce and then layered on the veggies. The veggies consisted of sauteed onions and red peepers, mushrooms, spinach, asparagus and some fresh Roma tomato slices. Tony thought asparagus on pizza was very odd, but it was awesome! He had veggies on his side to. I just had to omit the spinach and asparagus on his portion. :o)



Next on the agenda for Tuesday night was my first experience with canning. I have two recipes that I am using to make some green tomato salsa. I made the first recipe Tuesday night and am going to make the second one this weekend. The one that I am going to make this weekend actually sounds better than the one that I made last night. The 2nd recipe was recommend by Food Snobbery is my Hobbery, which sounds awesome! I have a feeling that the 2nd recipe will be the winner, but I will let you know after the taste test has been done over the weekend. I'll then share the recipes with you or at least the winning recipe. :o) I also want to say thank you to The Kuntrageous Vegan for recommending that I check out Food Snobbery is my Hobbery for some canning recipes.


I ordered a 5 piece home canning kit and porcelain water-bath canner with a rack from Amazon.com yesterday to make my canning easier. I am hoping that they will be in before the weekend. I had to use my stock pot to sterilize the jars and to process them after I had filled them with the salsa. I then had to use regular tongs to put the jars in and get them out of the boiling water. That was very interesting, but it was a success. I do believe that there will be a lot more canning done in my future. I actually had fun doing it, but let me say that I could not have done it with out my husband. He chopped all the tomatoes up while I chopped the onions and peppers. He's just sweet like that! :o)

~Peace~