Garden

[Lilysmom1]

The house smells like a pickle factory!  This years chow all made and stored.  Two batches, 32 bottles.

The question now is should I bother with pickled beets.  I think I will probably do a small batch.  Unlike the two day event that produces chow, I can do the pickled beets in one day.  Nice to have at Thanksgiving and Christmas.  At our house, if there are no homemade preserves on the table, people think the meal is incomplete.

How about you?  Do you make preserves?  LM

[nomar]

So pretty in the bowls and then in the jars. I have never made chow chow, but we do pickled beets every year. Such a treat to eat the rest of the year. Made a big batch of counter top 21 day pickles and several jars of Tomato Pepper Jam. Chow chow is so good with navy beans. How do you eat yours?

[juanitalinda]

 Not only do I not make it, I didn't even know what it was until I looked it up on Google.

What sorts of meals does it go with?  And what vegetables go into it?  

[Kachina624]

@Lilysmom1    Very ambitious but I didn't know you had a vegetable garden too???? 

Is it possible this hurricane will make it to Nova Scotia?  You and the garden were the first things I thought about when I heard it was headed to New England. 

[Lilysmom1]

@nomar @juanitalinda @Kachina624 @@@The ingredients are green tomatoes, onions and red peppers, pickling spice, vinegar and sugar.  For those who aren't familiar with it, it is like a relish.  We eat it with Roasts of all kinds, always with a turkey or chicken dinner, pork or roast beef.  We also eat it with pork and lamp chops, chicken breast.  In other words, with just about everything.

@Kachina624  I don't have a veggie garden.  My father had a huge one and I always hated weeding it.  I buy my produce from local farmers.

We will get the remnants of the hurricane but it is not expected to produce anything more than high winds and rain.   LM

[Kachina624]

@Lilysmom1   Fingers crossed for those Japanese maples. 

[On It]

@Lilysmom1 Your chow chow looks mighty good. Seeing the jars made me miss my grandmother so much. She made it every year. 

[phoenixbrd]

@Lilysmom1  This looks so good...congratulations on mission accomplished.  I'm working on Kimchi.

[50Mickey]

What a coincidence that you posted about your chow chow. I went to lunch today with a group of ladies from my neighborhood. A few of them were ordering veggie plates and on the menu was pinto beans with chow chow. After reading about yours I wish that I had ordered it.  (But I don't care for pinto beans.)

[Lilysmom1]

@phoenixbrd , tell me about Kimchi please.   I have never eaten it.  I see it at Costco...have you eaten that brand?  I love the organic sauerkraut at Costco.

Of course homemade is better but should I try the brand at Costco?  What do you eat it with?  LM