Just Settle In
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
While canning tomatoes from a bumper crop, Jesse realized the process was going to take a looooooong time. His wife advised him, simply, to "just settle in." Anything that yields great results in the future takes both upfront effort and perseverance. Whether it's gardening, putting up vegetables for the winter, or budgeting, you have to settle in.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winevers. My name is Jesse Meekham, this is podcast number 450 for Wineb. |
| 0:10.0 | Where we teach you four rules to help you stop even pay check to pay check get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:17.0 | Earlier, just after Mother's Day when you're supposed to do this, at least here in our gardening zone I purchased 32 tomato plants |
| 0:28.3 | 29 of which survived and dare I say, thrived. |
| 0:33.4 | And while I wasn't always of the mind that they would make it, |
| 0:37.5 | they did. |
| 0:38.4 | They outgrew the not sturdy little green poles |
| 0:41.8 | that you can buy from big box center stores and I will not do that again next year. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm going to get something sturdier for those massive plants. |
| 0:51.1 | But needless to say, we ended up with, I think 30, |
| 0:55.0 | I can't remember exactly, too many tomato plants. |
| 0:58.0 | And what do you do when you have too many tomato plants? |
| 1:00.0 | You have too many tomatoes. |
| 1:02.0 | And that is exactly what happened to me |
| 1:03.4 | and Julie so we did what everyone did during a pandemic and we started putting |
| 1:07.5 | things up and in this instance it was these tomatoes so the other day I'm sitting there with a whole bunch of |
| 1:15.6 | Romans and we're doing this thing where you cut them in half you broil them in the |
| 1:20.0 | oven for a moment and that's supposed to allow you just to kind of pinch off the tomato skin. |
| 1:25.8 | And then you take that and you process it more and you end up with, I think we ended up with that one doing some salsa. As I started the |
| 1:36.6 | process I'd kind of rinse them, I'd cut them in half, I lay them skin side up on a |
| 1:42.3 | cookie sheet, I put it in the oven for five minutes. I'm |
| 1:45.0 | watching it closely, not to burn them, I pull them out and then you have to let them |
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