It was overly optimistic to intend anything was going to come about inwards the sewing room yesterday. I spent the hateful solar daytime inwards the kitchen. That's non a complaint...I savor cooking, as well as everything ended upwards taking longer than I idea it would. Things mightiness direct hold happened faster had I non gotten it into my caput that I needed to start the hateful solar daytime alongside a canning project. On the other hand, I actually wanted those CSA carrots out of my vegetable crisper, as well as thus I went ahead alongside this Carrot Relish.
Really, I was looking for a novel means to piece of job some of the carrots, as well as I had everything I needed to brand this relish. It's pretty tasty. I intend my DIL Mae hitting the blast on the caput when she likened it to "carrot sauerkraut."
The recipe is from Marisa McClellan's Preserving past times the Pint book. I changed mine upwards a footling flake because I switched out pickling common salt for her "finely milled body of body of water salt." Also, I'd used all my jalapeno peppers inwards the salsa, as well as thus I used 1 of the cayenne peppers from our most recent CSA share. There's essentially no cooking involved inwards this relish, as well as thus it was a low-labor effort. I used my nutrient processor to grate all the vegetables. I was hoping individual else had posted the recipe online, but I couldn't discovery it anywhere. Here's how I did it:
Carrot Relish
adapted from Preserving past times the Pint
Yield: v half-pint jars
Ingredients:
1 pound carrots, grated
1/2 loving cup seeded as well as shredded carmine bell pepper
1/2 loving cup minced xanthous onion
1 jalapeno pepper, seeds as well as ribs removed, minced
1 tablespoon pickling salt
1 loving cup cider vinegar
1/4 loving cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons xanthous mustard seeds
1/4 teaspoon freshly the world dark pepper
Directions:
In a large bowl, combine the carrots, carmine bell pepper, onion, jalapeno, as well as salt. Toss together as well as allow the vegetables sit down for 1 hour, until you lot notice that the common salt has drawn out a pregnant pool of water.
Pour the vegetables into a colander as well as rinse briefly alongside mutual frigidness water. Drain.
Combine the vinegar, sugar, mustard seeds, as well as dark pepper inwards a medium saucepan as well as choose to a boil. Once it begins to bubble, add together the vegetables Stir the vegetables into the vinegar mixture as well as choose dorsum to a boil. Lower the rut to medium as well as laid for three minutes, until the vegetables are get-go to soften as well as direct hold lent a footling colouring to the vinegar.
When fourth dimension is up, take away the relish from the rut as well as funnel into the prepared jars. Wipe the rims, apply the lids as well as rings, as well as procedure inwards a boiling H2O bathroom for fifteen minutes.
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While I was waiting for fourth dimension to overstep on the relish, I got to piece of job on our dessert for final night's dinner: Dutch Apple Pie. For this, I combined the crust as well as filling from 1 recipe alongside the topping from some other recipe. I sort of similar the oatmeal inwards the topping. When it came out of the oven, it looked similar this:
We had it alongside a scoop of vanilla H2O ice cream. Mike as well as I volition complete off the final 2 pieces tonight. With apples, oatmeal, as well as H2O ice cream (calcium, you lot know), it's practically wellness food! So in that place you lot go.
The residue of my cooking yesterday was a High German Potato Salad...yum. And I made 1 of Erik's favorite appetizers inwards a hot crab dip. Erik volition live turning twoscore on Wednesday, which is fell to intend about. We were sort of, sort of celebrating his birthday, but nosotros were too catching upwards on our recent trips. While nosotros were inwards Colorado, Erik as well as Mae were celebrating their tenth marriage ceremony anniversary inwards Hawaii. It was fun seeing the pictures from their trip.
So alongside all that going on, in that place was no sewing yesterday. Today is going to live an easier day, as well as actually the firstly hateful solar daytime I've had to relax since nosotros got dwelling household a calendar week ago. As nosotros were leaving the breakfast tabular array this morning, I noticed the heaven only get-go to plough pink, as well as I watched every bit it bloomed into this pretty sunrise:
You know what they say: Red heaven at morning, crewman direct hold warning. Fortunately, the exclusively sailing I'm doing today volition live sailing into my sewing room to sew. I intend I should live rubber inwards there.
And since I had thus footling to exhibit from yesterday's efforts, I sat as well as stitched the final of the 2d snowman block this morning.
There's all the same 1 to a greater extent than of these earlier I motion on to the Dancing Chickens as well as Flying Pigs block.
I intend today volition live NBS (Nothing But Sewing). There is 1 housekeeping task on my calendar, but I tin give the axe set it off until tomorrow. Today I desire to start sewing together the Sundress quilt. As I've mentioned to a few of you, in that place are all the same 4 Dresden blocks left to make, but the Dresdens volition live amid the final blocks added to the quilt. I tin give the axe complete 2 of them today, as well as and thus start sewing the quilt top together. The other 2 tin give the axe hold off until tomorrow, as well as no 1 volition live the wiser.
So that's a expert invention for the day, don't you lot think? Any hateful solar daytime that is all sewing is going to live a expert day.