It's Salsa Time!

Tomorrow morning I am going to make my second batch of the season with Tenessa and potentially Becca and Sarah because canning with friends is way more fun than canning without friends. One thing I have realized this season - that seemingly endless stash of jars I collected that I thought would last the remainder of my lifetime, is all gone. I give salsa and jam out for gifts and have been lax about requesting the jars back. Heck, I never returned jars until I became a canner and realized that purchasing those things every year gets expensive. So if I gave you canned goods and you have a jar that you have not recycled (and heaven have mercy on you for recycling a perfectly good canning jar) it, please give it back to me. I promise, I will give you more salsa if you do. Also, I think I ruined the first batch of salsa. I did not process it long enough because when reading the recipe I misread the quantity produced with the amount of time it should process. So instead of 40 minutes, I did 5. That's right. 5. I don't know what will happen, but I'm going to try the salsa tonight to make sure it doesn't make me sick. I'm guessing that it just needs to be used right away instead of stored on a dark shelf for a long period of time. Still, it was a serious bummer. Salsa making takes hours and I would hate for any of it to be compromised. I love these genius moments.