![]() Yesterday, we dealt with a whole bunch of tomatoes that needed to be, well, dealt with. Of course there are many options when it comes to canning, or jarring which I suppose is the most correct term, but one we hadn't tried was V8 juice. Jamie looked up a recipe online, and we were off to the races. I realized that since it was Sept. 1st I could legitimately harvest our own horseradish, so I looked up the recipe for that too. Now it's always pretty much a big mistake when I try to cook two recipes at the same time. I always seem to get the pieces/parts mixed up, and sure enough, I got the horseradish all peeled and chopped and ready to put in the food processor, and thought, "Oh I need to get the celery and onions chopped really fine too!" And so I gleefully threw them all in, reasoning that the horseradish would chop up better if there was something for it to bounce around with. I am such a "squirrel head" as my dad would have said. I absolutely should NOT have put the other vegetables in with horseradish - I was preparing two things - NOT ONE!!! So I blend it all up and then it suddenly hits me - I only need 1 Teaspoon of horseradish - not half a cup. Wow, this was a strong mixture. But I thought well, I'll add the vinegar and sugar and it will be ok. Hmmm....well it turned out that it was OK as a separate relish that could be used with other stuff, but not part of the V8. Anyway, I started over, got it right, and boy did the V8 turn out great. So then this morning, I thought we really needed to have some of this. The reason we made the V8 was to have something to mix in our smoothies. And that's just what I did. So here's the recipe that we really like: a carrot - I used 2 since they weren't that big, a couple of cups of the V8 2 large Chard leaves 2 beet leaves and a 1/2 of a ghost pepper Ice cubes to get it the right thickness. OM Gosh! It was amazing. I can't wait to make another one tomorrow. We are planning on winterizing our greenhouse so we can have greens year round, and now we have even a better reason to get it done!!
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