Would anyone notice if I didn't have a recipe this week? Probably not, but I feel I should come up with something. A week or so ago, my daughter brought me a box of Roma tomatoes and a box of apples. Yesterday, I still hadn't dealt with them. I really didn't want to can them so I took the easy way out. I washed the tomatoes and cut them up in chunks. I put them into the pressure cooker with a little salt, one green pepper (cut up and seeded) and one small onion. I pressured them for 30 minutes. As many of you know, I love my electric pressure cooker. http://www.thecabincountess.com/2013/01/my-favorite-small-appliance.html
30 minutes in a pressure cooker is quite a while. As a result the tomatoes were cooked thoroughly. Then I put them into the VitaMix blender and pulsed until well blended. The result was fantastic. I avoided taking the skin off, and I didn't have to remove the seeds. All the nutrition remains in the juice. This sauce would be good for a lot of recipes. I froze most of it, but left out a quart just to drink.
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| It's thick and tasty with no separation overnight in the frig. |
It worked so well with the tomatoes, I did the same thing with the apples. I took out the core but left the peels on. I generally make chunky applesauce that is white, but this was so easy. The Vitamix blended the cooked apples into a pink creamy sauce. I added sugar and we had it warm for supper. I still like the chunky version better, but this is good too.
That's it, that is all I can come up with this week. Maybe next week I will be more creative, but at least I didn't waste this beautiful free produce.
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