I made a batch of green tomato relish tonight, about half of the recipe because that is all that will fit in the pot I wanted to cook it in, and fills as many jars as fill the pot for processing, and creates enough tomato/pepper/onion slurry to drain in the over-the-sink drainer thing I have. Eight and a half pints.

The house smells wonderful. The dogs are in now, and Zeke stole a tomato off of the counter. I thought I'd fix him so I lined up some jalapeno peppers along the edge. One was missing after a few minutes, but apparently he bit it and dropped it and the pit bull ate it. Poor girl was slobbering up a storm. I gave her some milk to help ease the burn. I guess someone learned a lesson about hot peppers this evening, just one the one who was the target. :-/ (This is too good to post just here, so it's going on facebook also).

SRS