We have been looking for berries, plums or apples of any sort. Most of these trees in the area did not produce this year. We have been watching this tree to see how the apples turn out. We checked it yesterday and found it full of these beautiful little crab-apples. We picked one full tub of crab-apples today and there are SO many left on the tree. I see a lot of work ahead of us…..
It took me less than an hour to get two ice cream pails of tomatoes into the freezer.
I washed, cored and slit an X on the bottom.
They went into the boiling water for 30-60 seconds just until the skin started to curl like this.
I put them into ice water and was able to slip the skins right off.
Then I chopped them up and put 2 cups into a ziploc freezer bag. It’s a good thing I did not have a salsa mix on hand because this pan would not have made it to the freezer. Freshly chopped garden tomatoes is a delicious smell. Yum Yum!!
Super easy way to take care of some extra tomatoes. These are great for adding to any hotdish, stew, or chili.
This year I planted way too many pepper plants. This is the third batch of peppers that I have cut up and froze. There are just way too many of them. I don’t know what else to do with them right now. We are going to be eating a lot of chili this winter!!
I started with about three ice cream pails of green peppers. I washed and cored them. A few went straight to the chickens because their skins were really thin or wilty. Plus I just have way too many so I threw a few more to the chickens. And the chickens love the green pepper cores.
I diced a bunch, sliced a few and left some in half. I sliced these a different way this time. The other bunch I sliced the long way.
I have been using sandwich bags to divide these up into serving sizes. Usually one cup of diced or about one pepper sliced. Then I put a bunch of these baggies into a foodsaver freezer bag and vacuum seal it. As I need peppers now, I just cut open the bag right below the seal, take out my little baggie, and reseal the bag with my foodsaver machine. This seems to work really great for me. 
