This year, my tomatoes went absolutely crazy in my garden. We are not huge tomato eaters, so in order to use them up, I made freezer salsa. The rest I just washed, dried and froze them by 10's (or so) in a freezer bag. Then, when I want fresh salsa in the middle of January, I will take them out, toss them into a pot of boiling water, remove them and take the skins off, and I'll be ready to start a batch of freezer salsa! At least I hope that is what I will do, I've never tried it until this year, but my neighbor assures me that it works.
Freezer Salsa
by: Carolyn
10-12 tomatoes
2 small peppers (I used some from my garden, and I don't know what variety I planted. But they are small, light green, and not very hot. Does that help?)
1 serrano pepper, sliced, with the seeds removed (you can leave the seeds if you want more heat in your salsa--we're a mild family, around here)
handful of cilantro
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 Tbsp. dried, chopped onion, rehydrated (actually, just slightly less)
1 1/2 tsp. sugar
juice of 1 lime
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. fresh ground pepper
Blanch your tomatoes by putting them in boiling water for 30-60 seconds, then taking them out and putting them right into a bowl of freezing cold water. Then the skins should slide right off. Remove the stems, cut them in half from the top and then squeeze out the seeds. Toss them in a blender and blend them up until they are the consistency that you like. In a food processor, finely chop your peppers (whatever kind those were...), serrano pepper, and cilantro. In a large pot, stir together the tomatoes, pepper mixture, garlic, onion, sugar, lime juice, salt and pepper. Bring it to a boil and then reduce the heat and simmer it for 10-15 minutes. Feel free to pull out your tortilla chips and start tasting it now. I added things and got it to the flavor I wanted, while I was cooking it. Pour it into your jars, or containers and freeze it until you are ready for it.
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