April reese
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September 19, 2012
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The many benefits of canned tomatoes

Making canned tomatoes is something families remember years later. Home-canned tomatoes have been a tradition for many generations. In the middle of the winter, you can use the tomatoes to make a fresh spaghetti sauce, lasagna, chili or other tomato-based meals for that fresh garden taste. My son goes through a quart of pasta sauce a week — that’s 52 jars a year, and that doesn’t include the other times I need canned tomatoes to use for chili, casseroles, stews and soups. So I decided if my tomatoes ever got ripe that I would use my recipe that I have …

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