Canning Pineapple Salsa and Chatting about Substitutions 

Thank you, Erika! Beautiful food is important to me. I'm always working on it. Always great to hear from you, Erika!

You captured it! Let me know if you make this one. Always great to see you here, Victoria!

I appreciate that!

Thanks, Eve! This one is very easy. Glad to have you here!

Thanks, Ty! So lad to have you here!

You're most welcome, Connie. Glad to have you here!

My pleasure, Mary! So happy to have you here!

Thanks, Mindy!

Thanks, td! So glad to have you here!

Thanks, Lynn!

Thanks, Paula! Great to have you here!

You're welcome! You'll love this salsa, Dee Dee!

Thanks, Sue!

Thanks so much, Debbie! If you want a head start, you'd best run get a bunch of onions, because the next recipe is a homerun! So glad to have you here, Debbie!

I bet you'll love this one, Emma! You are most welcome for the chart. I can't tell you how many times I have used it over the years.

Mary, thank you so much! I'm so happy to have you here!

I'm sort of in your neck of the woods. I'm in Southern Wisconsin. It's so good to be able to learn new things. I've been canning most of my 65 years, helping my mother when she canned.

Thank you so much, TrueGApeach! I'm so happy to have you here!

That sounds amazing, Karen!

You can't go wrong with either, Jeanna!

I totally get that, Marcia! 😂

I hope you do, Judy! Keep me posted. So glad to have you here!

I know! My work is canning, and I need a month off work just to get everything canned that I want to! Christine has been out of town, but I should get the spoon info from her in the next day or two. I haven't forgotten!

@@growandpreserve I would love to have your job! Maybe one day, when I retire as a social worker. Lol, I did receive that Canning recipe book loving it so far. It would be so fun to have a canning book club and can do something out of it together as a group on youtube. No worries about the spoon. Whenever Christine gets back will be fine.

@@loricook7670 I love the canning book club idea. Thanks for the food for thought! Christine got back to me this morning. Unfortunately, she said the spoon/spatula came with a long since deceased rice cooker. She kept the spoon because she loves it. Sorry!

Thanks so much, Donna! You're right. The mango salsa is pretty awesome. Stay safe in the storm. I hope you avoid the hail today. Always so good to hear from you!

I would think so.

Welcome, Karen! You are so lucky to have a peach tree! I am also a Georgia girl (Atlanta), and I do love peaches! But I make a heck of a mess with them! I have a video on peach salsa from last year. Your peach BBQ sauce sounds fantastic! Maybe that one will make its way to my pantry this year. Thanks so much for mentioning it. Good luck with the critters! I'm apparently growing tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries just for them! I spent all afternoon today covering any ripening fruit in organza bags. We'll see! Sounds like you have your work cut out for you tonight! Great to have you here!

@growandpreserve I thought you had said previously about being from ATL! Where are you now? My peach tree is only 3 years old and still small, so I'm hopeful that one day I will have more than I know what to do with and won't mind sharing with the local wildlife. While we're in a subdivision, they are big wooded lots and we're next to greenspace/forest, so lots of different critters come to see what I have in the garden. Honestly, last year we thought it had to be neighbors because so many disappeared literally overnight. We were just saying "those peaches will be *perfect* in a day or two" one evening, and the next day 90% were just GONE. I'm not making that mistake again and we're picking early and letting them ripen in the house where at least I'm related to anyone who would make them disappear overnight. I don't mind peeling peaches but I made the mistake once of buying clingstone peaches in bulk rather than freestone. My hands still hurt thinking about that! Good luck saving your garden from the critters there. Do you suspect bugs, birds, or mammals? Knock on wood, the only bug damage I get here other than tomato hornworms are something that goes after root veggies... still yet to be identified, but definitely bugs, not critters. Actually, that's not entirely true... we get snail and slug damage here and there, and battle cabbage moths occasionally, and some tiny white flying bugs that likes leafy greens, but never does enough damage to matter. But I remembered the slugs because we have yet to get a single strawberry without slug damage. I'm giving up on them until I find a way to get around the slugs.

@@karenpage9383 I'm in Tennessee now. Clingstone peaches are the worst to process! So hysterical that you thought your neighbors were taking the peaches! I think I have deer, bunnies, chipmunks and birds at my all-you-can-eat backyard buffet!

@growandpreserve Being in such a wooded area, we have a bunch of deer travel through the woods, but I've yet to see signs of them in the garden. We have 2 dogs, though they are indoor pets they are quite spoiled and get lots of playtime outside. I think it keeps the deer a certain distance from the garden and yard, especially since they can use the greenspace without being contested by pets. I'm actually thinking it was a bear that got the peaches. Seriously, there had to have been 50+ fruit at 7pm, and then only 5 by 9am the next day! I see armadillos all the time, but they wouldn't eat them, especially the fruit still on the tree. We had no other sign of a rodent issue, so I doubt it was that. I can't completely rule out raccoon, but in our 17 years on this property we haven't laid eyes any or seen one on the game or security cameras. Fox, cats, coyote, armadillo, and bear, but no raccoon or opossum. So... bear or neighbors! My hubby put $ on the neighbors and this year we have a camera aimed at the peach tree! LOL I'm usually of the mindset that I'll grow a little extra for the neighborhood critters, but that doesn't apply to my only peach tree or any of my tomatoes! Takes way too many tomatoes to be able to can all the tomato products we use. I grow enough for pizza sauce and some salsa, but there's never enough for ketchup or BBQ sauce, much less just diced or stewed tomatoes. So I make peach BBQ and rhubarb BBQ, but I am hoping this year to be able to buy enough tomatoes in bulk to make more than pizza sauce. There aren't many farmers near me that sell in bulk, but I'm hoping to head into Chattanooga this weekend to hit the big farmers market there and hope to make a connection for bulk produce there. Wish me luck!

@@karenpage9383 Bears! Egads. Good luck with that. David caught a bunny decapitating one of my pepper plants this morning. Ugh. Hope you find someone great in Chattanooga for bulk produce. I have yet to find anyone here who doesn't charge astronomical prices. When we lived in Atlanta, the Dekalb Farmers' Market was my go-to, although it's more of a grocery store with character than a true farmers' market these days. Great produce, great prices, good bulk sources.

I really prefer lime juice with mango. There is a mango chipotle salsa recipe in the All new Ball Book on page 163 that is my updated mango salsa go to.

This is it: amzn.to/42NIF0x . Thanks for being here, Hilda!

I would think that would be an excellent way to serve this salsa! Great to see you, Wayne!

Kinda jealous you're already canning tomatoes! Are you making salsa or something else?

I am canning diced tomatoes tomatoes, puréed tomatoes and salsa

@@daniellewoodward4728 Nice! You will be tired tonight!

Thanks, Em! And you're welcome! Such a handy reference.