What did you do to your residence today?

[JohnnyGT]

What year was the house built?

'75

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[OGsmakDadE]

'75

The flooring with the dowels may be original, it was an 80’s era thing. I prefer the timeless look of the red and white oak, but all of your flooring looks great

 

[JohnnyGT]

The flooring with the dowels may be original, it was an 80’s era thing. I prefer the timeless look of the red and white oak, but all of your flooring looks great

I'm sure it's all original. I've been in a couple other houses in the neighborhood and they're the same. Interestingly there is one house here that has the same floor plan but in reverse.

 

[Rapid Red]

Made a power cart for the quick jack. Materials, drops and a junk mechanics seat .

 

[Balr14]

I picked tomatoes and I'm running out of places to put them!

 

[Balr14]

In jars?

That would take a lot of jars. We use a lot of them for making sauce. Most are heirlooms and make much better tasting sauces than what you can buy in the stores. Right now, I have 5 gallons frozen, a frig pretty full and a lot more to pick. I got carried away and planted a lot more than I should have.

(Heirloom tomatoes are old varieties that are not commercially viable, because their skin may be too soft to stand a lot of handling and shipping, they have short shelf life, they may be odd looking or get cracks or plants don't have large or consistent yields.)

 

[The Demon]

Made a power cart for the quick jack. Materials, drops and a junk mechanics seat .

Whoa..whoa. Don't just blow past that car without showing it.

 

[JohnnyGT]

Coming together:

 

[Balr14]

Jarred as sauce is what I was going for!

Heirlooms must not be available in your area, because we've got them around here. Of course, we do have a lot of local farms.

A lot of local famers grow them now. They sell for a lot more than regular tomatoes. I grow quite a variety of heirlooms (green zebra, golden jubilee, lemon boy, cherokee purple, sky reacher, black krim, yellow pear and black prince) as well as 6 varieties of cherry tomatoes, including 3 new hybrids (Green bee, white cherries and chocolate plum).

 

[OGsmakDadE]

Coming together:

Man it looks amazing so far, keep it up!

 

[DFB5.0]

That would take a lot of jars. We use a lot of them for making sauce. Most are heirlooms and make much better tasting sauces than what you can buy in the stores. Right now, I have 5 gallons frozen, a frig pretty full and a lot more to pick. I got carried away and planted a lot more than I should have.

(Heirloom tomatoes are old varieties that are not commercially viable, because their skin may be too soft to stand a lot of handling and shipping, they have short shelf life, they may be odd looking or get cracks or plants don't have large or consistent yields.)

We cook and bottle our own Tomato Ketchup every year at the end of summer.

The recipe is my grandmothers, as a child, I used to help make it in her kitchen. The end result would be shared among the family. As she got older and passed away, it became my role to make the sauce every year, and my role to pass it around. I even use her big pot, scales and moulie. Every time I make sauce, guided by her recipe book, it always brings back memories of her and the big role she played in my early life.

 

[Balr14]

We cook and bottle our own Tomato Ketchup every year at the end of summer.

The recipe is my grandmothers, as a child, I used to help make it in her kitchen. The end result would be shared among the family. As she got older and passed away, it became my role to make the sauce every year, and my role to pass it around. I even use her big pot, scales and moulie. Every time I make sauce, guided by her recipe book, it always brings back memories of her and the big role she played in my early life.

Wow, that looks familiar! Except we make sauce and put it in freezer bags. So, what do you do with the skins?

 

[DFB5.0]

Wow, that looks familiar! Except we make sauce and put it in freezer bags. So, what do you do with the skins?

We cut the tomato's roughly and boil them with the skins still on. The moulie strains out the most of them during processing. What is left at the end is a smooth sauce/ketchup and the pithy material left in the moulie is discarded.

I can't eat store bought Tomato Ketchup after being brought up on the homemade family recipe. The taste is less sweet than typical ketchup, with a saltier and spicier taste.

 

[GT 550]

it always brings back memories of her and the big role she played in my early life.

So with the greatest of respect...does that mean Grandma was an obsessive detailer?

I can't eat store bought Tomato Ketchup after being brought up on the homemade family recipe. The taste is less sweet than typical ketchup, with a saltier and spicier taste.

 

[DFB5.0]

So with the greatest of respect...does that mean Grandma was an obsessive detailer?

No, though she did influence my career choice (Horticulture).

It was my Grandma on my fathers side that influenced the obsessive detailing tenancies. You could move an ornament on a shelf without her seeing and she would pick it and put it straight as soon as she walked in the room!

(Sorry for the derail of the thread, family character traits is something that has always fascinated me.)

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