{"id":904,"date":"2009-09-24T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2009-09-24T21:31:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T01:31:20","slug":"how-to-make-ketchup-leftys-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/how-to-make-ketchup-leftys-way.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Ketchup &#8211; Lefty&#8217;s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first weekend of September after Labor Day is a perfect time to make ketchup. That&#8217;s when my grandpa used to make it too. The tomatoes are ripe and the Farmer&#8217;s Markets have them cheap. So, it was the last time I made this recipe back in 1998, the year I got married. Tricia and I went to Dunkirk, NY to help grandpa make his ketchup, and to get those &#8216;damn pears&#8217; off the tree in the backyard. I took copious notes that day on how to make ketchup Lefty&#8217;s Way. It&#8217;s a good thing I did because his short-hand recipe didn&#8217;t capture all of the details.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/one-last-tribute-to-richard-lefty-rzepkowski.html\">passed away last year<\/a>, 10 years after I made my last batch with him. I rescued his ketchup-making equipment from his basement then, and it sat idle until last weekend. The following is a video of our first ketchup odyssey on our own. Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1X5GNKaaFDI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first weekend of September after Labor Day is a perfect time to make ketchup. That&#8217;s when my grandpa used to make it too. The tomatoes are ripe and the Farmer&#8217;s Markets have them cheap. So, it was the last time I made this recipe back in 1998, the year I got married. Tricia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-and-friends","category-leisure-time","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}