3rd Annual Tuna Day with Laura and Maggie

This was our 3rd annual tuna cook-off and like the others, this day did not go by without a hitch. Everytime we have canned tuna, something interesting has happened. Such as almost burning the kitchen down, and having to ask the neighbors for help in opening a pressure cooker--in the bathtub! (It remained unopened until 6 hours later when James was able to spend some time with it.) This year after doing 200 jars of tuna, we couldn't figure out why I didn't have more tuna jars because mine were smaller. We figured it out two days later when Maggie went home and found 10 additional pounds of tuna still frozen in her fridge. Laura and Maggie canned the tuna for me the next day.

Tuna day is a lot of work. Laura and Maggie drive out to the coast to pick it up; (This year it was only 100 pounds.) then we spend the whole day at my house cutting, stuffing jars with tuna and pressure cooking the jars out on the deck. My whole house smells like tuna for days and we end up throwing some towels away. This year we did 50 pounds for me and my whole family love it. Once you have tasted this tuna, you never want to have anything else. We have decided that we need to can tuna every year now because the kids love it so much it is going faster and faster as they have their own families.