CS-005: Deli-Style Kosher Dill Pickle Relish | Introduction to Deals | Win Ball Heritage Collection Jars

A Kosher dill pickle relish recipe with a genuine east-coast deli flavor is a tall order. In today’s episode I tell you how to do it! I give some background on why I made it and share my excitement at how well it turned out. I also give a number of tips & tricks along the way.

As usual, we also spend some time doing garden, canning, & kitchen talk. I then share a story of celebrating and sharing the abundance, respond to some listener feedback and messages.

Those new to home canning will get a lot from this episode as there are a number of helpful canning resources I introduce you to – and they’re all free!

Below is the full transcript of today’s show for those who prefer to read instead of listen to the Canning Season podcast. Links and resources referenced in the podcast itself appear below.

This is the Canning Season podcast with John Gavin, episode #5. Get out your jars, your commemorative jars.

Welcome to the Canning Season podcast. This is the show that’s dedicated to helping you get the most out of the home canning and food preservation lifestyle. In this community, it’s all about celebrating and sharing the abundance. To lead the way, here’s your host, an avid home canner himself, John Gavin.

Hey, everybody. I’m John Gavin and I am so happy to be here with you. Again, I’m fired up this week. I had an awesome outcome last weekend with an experiment I did with kosher dill relish, and, oh, it turned out awesome. I’ll talk about that today.

The weather, of course, here, rocks. It rocks still here in the Northern Woods part of the United States of America from which I broadcast in a suburb of Minneapolis Minnesota. You know what, I am being picked up in many parts of the world. We now have listeners in the United Kingdom. We have listeners, I believe, in Singapore, Russia, India. A number of you are showing up. Apparently, this concept of home canning and food preservation is, in fact, global.

I’m excited. I helped a person this week get a renewed sense of purpose and enthusiasm in their life. I’ll share that with you in today’s episode. I saw a record number of downloads of the Canning Season podcast. It blew me away. I think we’re on to something here and I’m excited about that. With that, I also received some awesome iTunes ratings and comments for which I’m very grateful, along with some wonderful email messages from a number of you.

So that goal I had when you heard me in episode 1, when I was this “kid with a dream”, you know, setting out where I had the idea of creating this sense of community, so far it’s happening and I’m feeling it. Now, it’s early. I still owe you a forum which I’m working on but remember we’re also in the midst of the growing season so, of course, we’re in our kitchens, right?

I’m also doing some really cool stuff. In fact, it has to tie-in with a big event on August 17. You know what that is? August 17 is National Can It Forward Day, and to help join in the celebration I’ve come up with a great contest involving my partner, the Fresh Preserving Store and Ball Brand canning jars.

You have a chance now to win, for free, a case of those limited edition blue jars – those blue Ball jars that they came out with this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of making canning jars – you are going to love it. I also have some great deals to tell you about involving my affiliates. With that, let’s head out to the garden.

Garden Talk, Canning Talk, Kitchen Talk

All right, it’s time for some garden talk, canning talk, kitchen talk. I had a rougher week canning this past week because I ended up under the weather on Sunday. I just was not feeling good at all, all day long and that was the day I planned to can last week, but Marge, my neighbor, was canning pickles last weekend and Marge and Ellard, my next-door neighbors, offered to pick me up some cucumbers from their supplier.