Up early today as we will be doing or starting our pasta sauce for the coming year. Picked up 40 kilo of tomatoes yesterday and very pleased with the quality as they were only $6 for 10kg. Nice and firm and a few will be kept for salad in the next week.
Started the morning by smoking some cheese for Christmas. The morning was cool after some rain last night but I put a 5kg block of ice in the smoker to help keep the temperature down.
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Did some Cheddar, Gouda and Edam. Used Apple pellets and a cold smoke.
Next in line were the two pork belly for bacon as I am no longer allowed to buy store bacon.
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Used a combined Apple and Olive smoke and came out quite well, very pleased.
By this time the wife was up so bacon and eggs with fried tomato's with toast but no photo there.
After breakfast on to the sauce and we also can only do about 10/15 kg at a time.
Molly set up inside to do the skinning and I set up outside to sterilise the bottles and lids then came in to cut up the tomatos.
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First box out of four.
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Getting ready to do the jars with two more boxes of tomatoes to go.
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Once they are sterilised I keep them in the oven till ready
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First lot on the go only add a table spoon of cracked pepper and a tea spoon of salt. Will adjust if need once it is blended.
And then repeat. Cheers Robert
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