Calico Relish

I think I've shared my childhood aversion to zucchini before.  I genuinely didn't similar it, together with somehow my mom e'er had an abundance of it inwards the summers when I was little.  I don't cry upward her growing it, together with thence I select no thought how it would halt upward inwards our kitchen, but she would operate it inwards everything.  My mom was never big on baking, together with thence my blood brother together with I learned to acquire real skeptical if of a precipitous in that place were cookies since it unremarkably meant in that place was zucchini inwards them.

There was a delicious savor we'd select a lot inwards the summertime with grilled hot dogs or sausages or brats.  It was my dad's aunt's recipe, together with I loved it.  Then I flora out the master copy element was zucchini.  I stopped eating it.  I didn't desire anything to produce with it because of the zucchini.  I form of forgot most said savor until recently.  I've since learned to appreciate zucchini together with genuinely swallow it pretty often.  I don't begrudge my kids a whole lot for non eating it since I didn't when I was little.  Plus in that place are plenty vegetables they swallow willingly that I don't encounter the betoken inwards fighting with them most 1 that they don't like.

Anyway, cry upward how I lately mentioned Market on the Move?  One of final month's offerings was a ton of zucchini.  Not an actual ton, but it may select come upward close.  I was trying to figure out what to produce with it since there's solely together with thence much sauteed zucchini or zucchini breadstuff 1 tin sack eat.  Well, perchance non on zucchini bread, particularly chocolate zucchini bread.  But I digress.  I remembered I had gotten this recipe from my mom (once I learned to screen the zucchini) perchance final summertime when for or together with thence argue I had a bunch of zucchini to operate up.  I was together with thence excited to brand upward or together with thence of this, particularly with it getting to hold upward the fourth dimension of twelvemonth that I produce a lot of grilling, together with thence I know we'll hold upward having it amongst a lot of meals coming up.

Calico Relish
Source: my nifty aunt Irene

4-6 unpared zucchini, coarsely terra firma (3.5 cups)
half-dozen medium carrots, terra firma (1.5 cups)
2 medium onions, terra firma (1 cup)
2 Tbsp uniodized salt
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups vinegar
1 1/2 tsp celery seed
1 1/2 tsp dry out mustard

Combine terra firma vegetables, stir inwards salt.  Let stand upward three hours.  Drain well, squash if necessary.  Combine remaining ingredients together with select to boil.  Add vegetables, simmer twenty minutes uncovered.  Seal inwards jars.  Makes 2-1/2 pints.

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I flora the easiest means to produce this was bust out my nutrient processor.  Oh how I dearest my nutrient processor.  I pose inwards 1 of the grating/shredding blades (I'm certain there's an official bespeak it, but I can't think of it together with don't experience similar looking it up...I solely select xv minutes until I require to travel out to pick upward kids from school) together with pose it on the finer of the 2 options together with thence my shreds of everything would hold upward smaller.  Actually for the onions I pose inwards the regular blade together with only pulsed until the pieces of onion were tiny.

I could barely hold off to select or together with thence of this.  Shortly afterwards making it the married adult man together with I had grilled sausages for dinner 1 black afterwards the kids had gone to bed, together with thence I got out 1 of my jars together with served or together with thence upward with our sausage.  Oh it was together with thence tasty!  Just every bit practiced every bit I remembered.  And the married adult man liked it, too!  It's super tardily to brand up, together with it volition hold upward a nifty means to operate upward or together with thence of that summertime bounty of vegetables!

My shredded veggies, awaiting their salt.

Boy #2 was helping with the process. This kid loves the nutrient processor!  He wanted inwards on 1 of the pictures.  Don't hear his shaggy-way-overdue-for-a-haircut human face upward or the yogurt stains on the tabular array behind him.  Hmmm...maybe I shouldn't select pointed those out?

Relish cooking away.

 How freakin' adorable are these jars?!  They're broad rima oris one-half pint jars.  I dearest them.