RELISH ME!

With our garden producing an abundance of vegetables, you can imagine how much we have given away, freezed, baked, cooked, etc.... Stacey and I were looking through our Canning Book (Ball's Guide to Preserving), we decided to take a stab at canning different types of relish. Two weeks ago, we made zucchini relish and it was a hit with our neighbors and friends. So, Stacey and I decided to try selling the relish at our neighborhood Farmer's Market. This past week we made 25 jars (15 Zucchini Relish; 5 Pepper-Onion Relish; and 5 Sweet Pickle Relish). Along with the relish, we sold zucchini-chocolate chip muffins and slices of Gigi's famous Apricot-Nectar Cake. For our first Farmer's Market, we did pretty well. We probably broke even this first time around, but we still have some left over ingredients that we can use to make more relishes, so at this point, anything we make should be pure profit. We will use our money toward our OBX trip in August! It's been fun and we really the whole canning thing. Now that we have a ton of tomatoes starting to ripen, we will look into how to make salsa and spaghetti sauce.