Pineapple Chutney

What do you do when you find you have a couple of pineapples and a red pepper in the house and red onions in the garden?

 

Well, you chop it up and make pineapple chutney.

 

I was also left with quite a few canning jars after the wedding, so I brought out the old canner to save some for winter. When the kids were young and we first moved to the acerage I used to do a lot of canning. Time seems to be in short supply that past few years and the canning supplies have sat on the shelf downstairs.

 

Does anyone do canning? I think I'll try some dill carrots next. I also see lots of jars and and supplies being sold in the stores so there must be a few people around that enjoy canning, but when I stopped in at a major grocery store today for pickling salt and dill seeds there was none to be found. Not even an empty spot where they might have been sold out. If you do canning, what's your favorites?

Texture Tuesday

This weeks' Texture Tuesday challenge word with Kim Klassen is "story".  Well, this is the story of my "new" little green jar.  It's a half pint size and the most beautiful shade of green.  We found it on a basement shelf in my Mother-In-Law house.  Perhaps it was placed on this shelf because she knew it was so special.  It would have been many, many years since she filled this little jar, perhaps with Chokecherry or Pincherry Jelly, Saskatoon Jam or maybe even Mustard Pickles.  It's sat empty and alone for quite a few years and now it sits in the entrance on an old table that will be refinished this summer.  Not filled with jam or pickles right now, the best I could do this weekend was Dogwood and grass.

The textures used on both photos were Kim's Providence as well as a texture by LenabemAnna. I hope you enjoy my little jar as much as I do as I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot more of it.