Canning

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Grandma Franzen, Makenna, Ashlyn and I were back at this summer canning away. This is probably one of my favorite summer activities, spending it with my girls and Grandma Franzen and learning all the fun tricks of canning. My Grandma amazes me when it comes to cooking in the kitchen. She's one that will look at a recipe, but not really follow it. She adds this and that and this and that and it always turns out yummy. Here in the next few weeks we'll be canning applesauce and apple pie filling. YAY!!! Canning tomato juice.

Makenna loved to help.

Ashlyn not so much.

Our little taste tester.

We didn't get a ton made, but it will be enough to make some chili and vegetable soup this winter.

Grandma Franzen and I tried something new this year with my zucchinis. We made relish and it turned out pretty good. Grandma was also nice enough to shred the rest of the zucchinis and bag them up for me to use later when I make zucchini bread, zucchini bars, zucchini brownies, zucchini cookies and all the other 1000+ zucchini recipes.

With the gigantic zucchinis that I had, we made alot of relish.