Okay, so I am relishing (haha) my time to myself by catching up a bit on blogging while Judy watches the boys for a couple of hours: sipping a venté soy chai latté at you-know-where. I never get a venté size but it was a freebie so for sure!

I started up the laptop and realized we took all Photoshop versions off of it to make room. We don’t edit on it any longer as we have our own computers and this is the family one. Soooo…great, what to do now when I want to resize some pics for the blog?? Hmmm…oh, maybe Preview can do it, and voila, yes, it can. Whew!

So, here we go…

My lovely sister-in-law gave me a recipe for zucchini relish. I needed something to do with the woppin’ big zucchini my friend, Juli, had dropped off from her parents’ garden – it’s huge! Here is a pic of it with a teaspoon measure to get the idea. Well, this is half of it as I’d already used some for the zucchini marmalade recipe I got from Juli…the boys went crazy when they saw it!

The marmalade turned out great albeit very, very thick. My first time waiting for the mix to ‘gel’ and really not knowing what to expect ended up with something crazy, bread-tearing, thick stuff. But yummy. At least I tried 🙂

Aaanyway, here are some pics along the way. The first pic looks so good already what with the zucchini, carrots and I forget what else (!) mixed in. Kind of like an alternative coleslaw. Raw zucchini is sooo good!

MIxin’ the suga’ togetha…

All ready to go into the jars and this time I didn’t super cook it into a crazy gel – so pleased!

Funny thing is that four of the jar lids didn’t ‘pop’ after 24 hours as they should to show it’s good to go/ready to store and eat pretty much whenever. Steve brought one of these jars into work and popped it into the fridge. By lunchtime when he went to retrieve it the lids had popped. Weird. So, I stuck the rest into the fridge at home and what do ya know? They popped! Nice. Thanks, Steve. Inadvertently, but thanks, nonetheless.

Steve LOVES the zucchini and I must say, M, thanks for a super-awesome recipe! We put it on egg sandwiches, plain toast, whatever. It’s totally worth it!

There. Another post done. More catch-up to do but I still want to read, knit and draw and I’ve got just over an hour left. :0

Judy, thanks for the time. It’s…I don’t know…so nice to say the least.