One of my strongest childhood memories was watching my grandmother​s​ in the kitchen preparing meals for our large family ​gatherings ​on Sunday afternoons.  Both my grandmother and my great-grandmother were influential figures in my lif​e and instilled a quiet passion ​in me for bringing your heart and soul to the table.  They would create memorable and delicious dishes ​that would cause us to want to sit at the dinner table for hours, not just minutes, and share together.  ​They were wonderful and patient teachers and, like a sponge, I would absorb their body language, their knife skills, and their innate sense of creating something out of nothing as I worked alongside them.  They were frugal, but they would never let us know it, as we sat down to a meal fit for kings.

When my great grandmother died, I inherited a few of her cookbooks.  They have her notes in them from World War I, when she was a cook for the soldiers.  They hold a place of honor on my bookshelf.  It helps me to remember what an important role food has to play both in life and in death.  I thumb through the fragile pages from time to time, half expecting to hear grandma’s voice whisper a secret direction to me.

This is among one of my grandmother​’s signature recipes–a relish made with green tomatoes.  We put our gardens to bed this past weekend and pulled up our tomatoes–​now it’s​ time to take a stroll down memory lane.​

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My Grandmother's Green Tomato Mustard Relish

SERVINGS 6-7pints CHANGE SERVING SIZE pints

COOK TIME 30minutes

PREP TIME 1.5hours

READY IN 2hours

Ingredients

• 12 tomato(es) green
• 3 bell pepper(s) green
• 3 bell pepper(s) red
• 5 onion(s) large
• 1 jar French's mustard small
• 4 cups sugar scant
• 1 cup flour scant
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 1 tablespoon tumeric
• 2 tablespoons celery seed
• 3 cups vinegar
• 1 cup water

Instructions

1. Grind and drain for 1 hr. the first 4 ingredients (green tomatoes, green and red peppers and onions).
2. Mix the remaining ingredients together and add the vegetables.
3. Cook until it boils and thickens, stirring constantly.
4. Pack in sterilized hot jars.
5. Store in a cool, dry place.