{"id":518,"date":"2010-08-17T08:23:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:03:23","slug":"slipping-tomato-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/slipping-tomato-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping Tomato Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slipping Tomato Skins<\/p>\n<p>Many cooked tomato canning recipes call for tomatoes to be \u201cwashed, cored, peeled and chopped\u201d (in fact, I can&#8217;t think of one right off the bat that doesn&#8217;t). The simplest way to peel a tomato is just to \u201cslip the skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are the simple steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wash, core and inspect your tomatoes (remove any bad spots) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-521\" title=\"TomatoCrackedSkin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TomatoCrackedSkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Place the tomatoes gently into boiling water for 30-60 seconds.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll notice the skin start to \u201ccrack\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Immediately transfer tomatoes to cold water (I add a little ice as well\u2014to keep the cold water from warming too quickly)<\/li>\n<li>Using your hands, gently peel or \u201cslip\u201d the skin off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The green tomato in the batch is an heirloom variety and RIPE!\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-519\" title=\"TomatoGreen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TomatoGreen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>I needed it to fill out the weight of the tomatoes required in my barbeque sauce recipe.\u00a0 No one will ever know; shhhhh!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slipping Tomato Skins Many cooked tomato canning recipes call for tomatoes to be \u201cwashed, cored, peeled and chopped\u201d (in fact, I can&#8217;t think of one right off the bat that doesn&#8217;t). The simplest way to peel a tomato is just to \u201cslip the skin.\u201d Here are the simple steps: Wash, core and inspect your tomatoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,18,19,56,66,39],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-tomato-growing","tag-tomatoes","tag-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}