#36 - Learn how to bottle/can
When this adventure made it on the list, I started to think of the easiest things I could bottle/can. A friend posted a picture on Facebook of her attempt at bottling pickles. Only a few ingredients were needed and it looked like a pretty simple process. Yep, sign me up for pickles because I am all about easy!
Fast forward a couple weeks and the pickles quickly became a distant thought. A friend from my ward, Anna, created a Facebook event inviting people to make salsa. All of the ingredients were from her families garden (except the onions) so those wanting to participate just needed to bring a jar to store their finished product. I love salsa and needed to bottle/can something so it was a no brainer. Along with 13 other friends I accepted the invitation for the Salsa Party.
Saturday morning comes around and it's time to make salsa. I went to the cupboard to grab my jar only to find that is had mysteriously gone missing. Not wanting to go out and buy a new one, I looked around for an alternate. Ironically enough I ended up with a pickle jar as my last resort. Yes a few pickles were evicted but it was for the greater good. Pickle jar in hand I walked to Anna's house; getting there right on time. Turns out I was the first to arrive. That isn't too shocking because young single adults aren't always the most punctual, especially on a Saturday morning. The surprising part was when no one of the other 13 people who said they were coming ever showed up for salsa making.
I spent the morning with Anna and her mom making delicious salsa while listening to celtic salsa music (yep it's a thing). All of the tomatoes and peppers that we used came straight from their garden.
The Sheffield family was so nice to let me invade their home for the afternoon. Our salsa had to cook for a while before we could bottle it up. Since the bottling part of the activity was what I really wanted/needed to do I stuck around the whole morning.
In the end I got to take home my pickle jar full of delicious salsa along with a couple other bottles save and enjoy later. Perks of being the only person to show up for the Salsa Party!
-Em
Fast forward a couple weeks and the pickles quickly became a distant thought. A friend from my ward, Anna, created a Facebook event inviting people to make salsa. All of the ingredients were from her families garden (except the onions) so those wanting to participate just needed to bring a jar to store their finished product. I love salsa and needed to bottle/can something so it was a no brainer. Along with 13 other friends I accepted the invitation for the Salsa Party.
Saturday morning comes around and it's time to make salsa. I went to the cupboard to grab my jar only to find that is had mysteriously gone missing. Not wanting to go out and buy a new one, I looked around for an alternate. Ironically enough I ended up with a pickle jar as my last resort. Yes a few pickles were evicted but it was for the greater good. Pickle jar in hand I walked to Anna's house; getting there right on time. Turns out I was the first to arrive. That isn't too shocking because young single adults aren't always the most punctual, especially on a Saturday morning. The surprising part was when no one of the other 13 people who said they were coming ever showed up for salsa making.
I spent the morning with Anna and her mom making delicious salsa while listening to celtic salsa music (yep it's a thing). All of the tomatoes and peppers that we used came straight from their garden.
Tomatoes peeled perfectly but the peppers put up a fight. Anna had pepper juice squirt in her eye and she also got some juice on her upper lip. She was quite the sight in her sunglasses with an ice cube up her nose on her upper lip. I learned a very valuable lesson too....ALWAYS wear gloves when cutting peppers. Oh the burn! My fingers felt like they were on fire the rest of the day and it would randomly reignite for a couple days after. I washed my hands a million times with various types of soap and the pepper oils still remained. If you want to try something fun and exciting, cut up a whole bunch of hot peppers with no gloves and then try to take out your contact lenses. Two days after and it still burned when I touched my eyes.
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| When the burn gets too extreme, it's necessary to put your head in the freezer. |
In the end I got to take home my pickle jar full of delicious salsa along with a couple other bottles save and enjoy later. Perks of being the only person to show up for the Salsa Party!
-Em
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