Creative Uses For An Abundance of Canned Relish

1. Add to Potato Salad
2. Add to Egg Salad
3. Add to Tuna Salad
4. Add to Chicken Salad
5. Mix into mashed rutabega/potatoes/turnips
6. Side dish for meats
7. Mix into cream cheese or sour cream for dips or spreads
8. Mix with mayonnaise to make Tartar Sauce
9. Mix into various ingredients for homemade salad dressing
10. Of course enjoy on hot dogs and burgers (or mix them into your meat to make burgers)
11. Mix into cooked beans
12. Mix into cooked rice, spanish rice or other rice dishes
13.Take some camping and add to foil packets with meat or other vegetables.
14.Use it to flavor meat marinades or glazes
15.How about adding them to soups or lettuce salads?


Got any more ideas to share?

Garden Cooking

I canned 8 pints of Easy Dill Pickles today.  I also had 3 medium sized zucchini and a bunch more cucumbers.  

We made a recipe from Mother Earth News Web site, and it was delicious.

Quinoa - Zucchini Cakes with Summer Herbs

And with a few of my larger cucumbers, I made a cold salad:

Greek Pasta Salad


The salad was okay, but lacked something.  I think I may use fresh minced garlic vs. garlic salt.  There just seemed to be something missing in the taste, but otherwise good.