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I froze about 20 lbs too many whole tomatoes last year. I noted this fact a couple of weeks ago as I was making room in the freezer for a few more bags of 2019 rhubarb and a flat of ruby red local strawberries. Here we were, starting to eat our first fresh tomatoes, sun-warmed and straight off the vines, and a bunch of last year\u2019s frozen ones still hanging around. Hmmmm, what to do with them??<\/p>\n
Give them to the chickens was my first thought. It\u2019s handy having a flock of hungry omnivores in the barnyard, nothing even remotely edible goes to waste around here. But I still prefer to feed people food to people first if at all possible. So I pushed the problem to the back of my mind where it could stew\u00a0for a while, and got on with life.<\/p>\n
A few days later, I had it! Ketchup! We were almost at the bottom of our current bottle, so the timing was good too.<\/p>\n
I’ve been buying organic ketchup for as long as it has been available. It was the first organic product I splashed out on back in the day. I figure that the tomatoes had best be pesticide-free when they hit the kettle, since any residues would only concentrate during processing. It\u2019s expensive though. So I was pretty chuffed at my genius idea.<\/p>\n\n
Good old Google gave me a million recipes; I combined a couple and after two days of simmering followed by two days of dark closet fermenting I had a nice stash of homegrown organic fermented tomato ketchup. \u00a0Full of probiotics and with a delicious zingy taste, fermented ketchup aids digestion too. It even achieved the DH stamp of approval.<\/p>\n
My ketchup will keep for six months in the fridge, longer if frozen. One jar for each daughter and one and a half for us is just about perfect. And 20 pounds of last year\u2019s tomatoes transformed into deliciousness is the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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