Green Tomato Relish

I had quite a few tomatoes in my garden that hadn't had a chance to turn red and we were supposed to get a frost. So I found a green tomato relish recipe to use them up!





My mom & dad helped out














We tried to use the food processer, but it mushed them too much!

































Andy had fun with this bowl!














Video of Andy playing with the bowl ☺









Finally, everything was cut up!



















Time to mix it all together!
































William wanted to help. I managed to snap the picture just as the spoon exited the kettle!
















Emily helping



















More mixing



















All done












Here is the lot of them!

Canning

Last week, the kids and I went over to my parents' house to help my mom doing some canning. I brought carrots and celery and she had potatoes and onions.

The girls putting in the veggies.

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William putting in the celery and onions.

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William putting on the rings.

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Andrew helping with the rings.

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All ready to go into the canner.

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In the canner.

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Sarah and Grandma looking at the jars in the canner.

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Putting the lid on.

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10 pounds of pressure for 30 minutes!

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All done! We did 14 jars on day one.

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Clean up duty!

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On day two we did 7 more jars just like we did on day one, plus we did 14 more that we added ham besides the potatoes /carrots /onions /celery.

We also had these string beans that needed to be done!

William and I snapping the ends off.









Andrew helping run the frencher.

We could get 3 beans through at a time, but my hands were getting tired!

All done!

We had a small amount of yellow beans to do, too.

Mom was putting the beans into groups of 3 to make it faster putting them through the frencher. We were both getting pretty tired of canning!

Mom putting the beans into the jars. We got 4 quarts & 3 half pints (counting the 1 of yellow beans)

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William helping wash the dishes.

On the shelf at home!