Goal: Burn his face off spicy!

It's been years and years since we've made salsa. I'm pretty sure it's because the last time we tried to make spicy salsa for Andy and we failed... so we had to make another batch and give it another try so we just had so much salsa sitting on our shelves. Our garden is very busy producing tomatoes this year, which hasn't happened for a few years, so salsa was on the plan for canning! This is my friend Mandie's recipe and it's a huge hit. It's fresh and tastes great. We did our best to spicy it up for Andy. Nicholas and I went to the grocery store and bought as many hot peppers as we could reasonably do. We even broke the self check out! Ok, we didn't... but it did freak out and stop working when we tried to scan the peppers. We wore gloves and used a chopper and included all the seeds for him. For us we did some jalapeños but no seeds. We were very careful not to pepper ourselves. I canned 31 jars on Labor Day, the next day? He ate an entire jar of the spicy salsa... you could say he liked it.
One tip I tried and true tip to avoid breaking jars - warm the salsa first. I've seen some recipes that want you to cook it down - I'm not saying that, just to warm it up. I do the same thing with canning tomatoes warm up the tomatoes or salsa before putting into the cool jars - this helps avoid the shock of the cold tomato mix into the hot water and fewer broken jars and having to start over on your canner full of clean water... which is a pain! Also don't over tighten your lids... I had help a few weeks ago with pears and had some weird issues and realized my helper was over tightening things so I had a broken jar and a buckled lid. Appreciate the help - but the right help. Enjoy this salsa recipe - it's great.

Mandie’s Salsa
Makes 10-12 pints
What you need!
12 cups heaping tomatoes chopped
2 cups green peppers chopped
3 large onions chopped
jalapeños - 1/3 c. (mild) - 1/2 c. (medium) - 1- cup (hot)
6 cloves garlic minced
1/2 bunch cilantro chopped
Mix above ingredients in a large bowl
Mix together:
12 oz. tomato paste
1/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons salt
1 cup vinegar
Add tomato sauce ingredients to salsa. Poor into sterilized bottles and process in boiling water bath for 20 minutes.