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Public holidays…never seem to go to plan & pickled aubergines

12/3/2015

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Public holidays always seem to have an air of something special about them. Different to weekends or rostered days off from work, public holidays seem to demand that plans are made for them.

Extra special plans to ensure that make the public holiday have you feeling like you have had some benefit from them and they have been a real treat.

Our public holiday this week was going to be a day at home for me doing all sorts of things that I have wanted to catch up on for weeks. Of course my plans were about 36 hours of activity to fit into nine hours…but then again, plans are made to be changed - apparently!!

After having to log on and do a few hours of unexpected work, I was all set to commence some other things when in walked Tez with about 20kgs of produce.  
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20kgs of produce from the PCH veggie patch

Feeling very proud of himself for cleaning up the remains of the summer crop from the veggie garden he happily advised me “you should be able to make some good preserves with this lot”!

“Not in my plan for my public holiday”, was what I thought.

However, I could not see all the wonderful veggies go to waste, so it was out with the pans and some old recipes.
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My recipe from 1973 – shared with me by a friend’s grandmother.

Jars of tomato relish, little yellow pear tomato relish, green tomato relish, pickled mini eggplants, green tomato jam. Chillies and peppers ready to be turned into jams. 
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Green and yellow tomatoes    
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Finger aubergines ready to pickle  

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The pantry will be well stocked, that is for sure.
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Jars a plenty of relish

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