Mild peach salsa

My previous attempt at peach salsa turned out a little spicy for my wife, so this go around I set out to make something more on the Mild Side. And I think I pulled it off.

Recipe came from pickyourown.org and I mostly followed it.

Mix the following in a large pot:

• 3 pounds of #2 heirloom tomatoes, blanched, shocked in ice bath, peeled, and diced
• Two yellow onions chopped
• two cups yellow, orange, and red bell peppers seeded and chopped fine
• 10 cups of ripe peaches, blanched, shocked in ice bath, and peeled, and 1/2 inch diced
•  1 Tbs canning salt (actually pickling salt, I'm not sure of the difference)
• 5 Tbs pickling spices in tea ball (whole spices: coriander, mustard seeds, black pepper, cubebs, long pepper, grains of paradise, 2 cloves, crumbled stick cinnamon, crumbled bay leaf, some red pepper flakes)
• 1 1/4 pound brown sugar (almost two boxes)
• 2 1/4 cup cider vinegar 
• 1 small can of diced roasted chile peppers, drained. 

Heat to boil, gently stirring. Reduce heat and simmer 30 mins. 

Then can with the standard hot water bath techniques. 

Peach Salsa

In my not-as-yet-yet-hopefully-not-never-ending quest for a peach salsa recipe that will supplant my addiction to Trader Joe's Smokey Peach Salsa, I tried a recipe for smokey peach salsa from someone who sounds similarly afflicted.

Next time: I'll probably try to get closer to the recommended ingredient list. I didn't get my hands on chipotles or a habanero chili, but used jalapeños.  I also opted for herbs from my garden (parsley and basil) rather than cilantro. I also wasn't so good at getting the peach chunks small enough (because I first read it as 1" chunks rather than 1/4" chunks).

Scallions and onions from the garden

Process the peaches: peel, pit, partition

Blend half the peaches, tomato paste, herbs, hot pepper

Much chopping required.

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Add chunky bits: peaches, tomato, lime juice

Good thing I didn't use a smaller pan.

Salsa all jarred up.

Update: next batch was much more mild, and quite tasty.