Canning San Marzano Tomatoes

I had to find out for myself. After hearing about how wonderful San Marzano tomatoes are in the pasta making class I took from Rosetta. I took the plunge and did a lot of canning in the past few days. You can find her method documented on her website. However, I also added 1 T lemon juice and 1/8 t salt to each pint jar.  I also made tomato paste from a recipe in Rosetta's  wonderful cookbook called My Calabria. Her cookbook is filled with great recipes, and not only that, it tells her story of coming to the US from Calabria and her family who grew all the food they ate and continue to do the same at their home in Oakland. I plan to take another class from her soon. I can't wait to use these lovely canned tomatoes throughout the year, and especially in the dead of winter. I tasted my fair share of fresh San Marzano's and they are tremendous. You can get San Marzano tomatoes from Happy Girl Kitchen Preservationist Society, or if you are lucky and they are deliverying to your neighborhood, from Mariquita Farms via their Ladybug Buying Club.