salsa decor

This summer, Tom began a quest to grow tomatoes. He built a very simple "redneck greenhouse" and diligently cared for 15 tomato plants all summer. As you all well know, however, this was NOT a good summer to grow tomatoes in Alaska! We had almost no heat and TONS of rain. Our tomatoes got a fungus and just weren't very happy or productive in their surroundings. We ended up with 4 small red tomatoes and tons of tiny green ones. Despite this, we perfected a fresh salsa recipe and were determined to can it and savor it all winter long....After doing some searching ( & price checking!), I did find a dear sweet lady, Mrs. Dearbourne, who sold me 15 lbs of tomatoes. We made two huge batches of salsa and proudly canned for the very first time. Last week, we finally cracked a jar.......YUCK! All this effort, and we can't even eat it!!!! For now, the jars of salsa sit on top of my cabinets as....decorations? You win some, you lose some...:)