Good Morning We Have Salsa & a Winner

Good Morning Everyone,
   
    I worked most of the day yesterday with a couple interruptions, hand de seeding and chopping up tomatoes (4 quarts chopped) and sweet peppers, then in my "vintage" Cuisinart-yep still works after 40 years-went the onions, garlic, jalapenos, and poblano peppers (combined peppers 3/4 pound and 4 medium to large onions and one garlic head). Then in went the 1 1/4 cups of chopped fresh cilantro, and 1/2 of one of those small cans of tomato paste, and 1/8 cup of cumin This year I canned up mostly 1/2 pint jars because sometimes a whole pint has been too much and I have a few jars left over from last year.
   I still have tomatoes and peppers left so I am going to cut these up in a bit larger pieces and can it up to add and serve to refried beans 

Several years ago I had found a recipe that I love, mostly because I had never thought to use lime juice as the acid instead of vinegar-(in canned items like this where you want to use the water bath method instead of the pressure canner one has to add an acid to the mix-this uses 3 tablespooons lime juice per pint jar and canned 20 minutes)  what a difference that makes to the flavor of the canned salsa.


  Last Night I wrote the names Barbara and Kate on slips of paper, folded them and tossed them around. This morning, I tossed them around some more and then picked one---Congratulations Barbara!! You have won my Scandinavian Backstrap Loom kit-Please contact me with your snail mail address and I will get this out to you-Enjoy!!