On New Years Day I botched a recipe for cranberries. I started out on one page of my Ball Compete Book and my helper (his name is Jefferson, he did a drive by tailing of the book while it was on the counter behind me) decided I needed to change to the page before to finish the recipe... I didn't notice this until AFTER I put the jars in the water bath. So instead of 'whole cranberry sauce' I made whole cranberry jelly. Either way it's still good, 6 pints and 3 half pints:
And today I attacked cauliflower. 2 heads, on sale this time of year out here, just couldn't pass them up so I set off to do something interesting with them and landed back at the recipe for the pickled brussel sprouts which is basically garlic dill pickles. This time though I didn't add the pepper at all since I'll probably be eating them at some point. Then, right as I was finishing the last jar of cauliflower and realizing I had a lot of pickle left, I decided to make a jar or two of carrots/zucchini/onions. Just for something different. Ended up with 5 quarts of dilled cauliflower and 2 quarts of dilled veggies:
Cranberries are one of those things that I simply can't get locally but I would love to make some cranberry jelly! I will probably end up with far too much cauliflower from my garden this year since I am the only one in my house who likes it. I've never had it pickled but I think I'll have to try it this year!
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