And it shall be called the Green Tomato Salsa Experience.

Which produced.

green tomato salsa canned

22 pints of salsa.

Don’t ask for the recipe. Its just a whole lot of this and more of that and sure some more of this. It’s loosely based on this recipe Green Tomato Salsa Verde.

tomatoes

Tomatoes from our garden! Our first picking of red ones. Wooo!

garlic

Red onions. Chives. So much cilantro and garlic.

Parsley. Banana peppers. Cubanelle peppers. Pink coarse salt. Apple cider vinegar. Sugar. Black pepper. And lots of love.

It’s delicious…

I’ve learned that if I put the word “project” or “experience” when asking HWMMS to help, he is more likely to say YES!

Example:

Me:  Do you want to help me process this sink full of green tomatoes from the garden for the salsa?

HWMMS: Um, no.

Edited:

Me: Do you want to help me with the green tomato salsa experience?*

HWMMS: Yes.

*I also might have added—and pour me a big glass of peach wine and you can pick any music to listen to while doing it except for “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”**

He did not take advantage of this and we ended up listening to the Headstones. Which now makes him want to name the Green Tomato Salsa Experience — “Hugh Salsa.”

**Don’t ask. I just really do not like this song, it makes me stabby and he LOVES it and it somehow is on the mix of songs we listen to all the time in the car. This version is at least by The Headstones, because the Gordon Lightfoot original, arugh! Why it has this effect on me, no freaking clue.

The Green Tomato Salsa Experience has extended an extra day by using the many scraps and putting them on the stove to simmer into delicious veggie stock. Yes, all the ends and skins and peels. All of them. All the herbs and veggies, Into the pot. Just add water and any other veggies left in the fridge that are getting questionable. And I added a jar of pickle juice (one pickle left!) It never tastes as good as it smells, but man, the smell alone is worth the time. I’ll most likely use this stock to cook some rice or as a base for another future stock.

So easy! And then…into the compost.