Spicy Carrots

Saturday morning Dustin picked ALL of our carrots. See this bushy thing in our kids' swimming pool. Its not a bush its the carrot tops! That is a whole lotta carrots!!!

So with all these babies we bottled Spicy Carrots ALL DAY Saturday!

What you'll need: (makes 4 pint jars)
4 hot peppers
4 cloves garlic
1 tsp rosemary
2 pounds carrots, cut 3" long
2 cups water
2 cups white vinegar
3 tbs sugar
3 tbs salt

This recipe says it makes a total of four pints.
So I tripled it about eight times to get all of our carrots done.
Unless you have an enormous amount of carrots like we did you should be fine to follow the recipe as is.

Other stuff you are gonna need:
Steam Canner
Bottling Tools
Jars
Lids
Rings


1. Wash your carrots really good outside and get all the mud and gunk off.
Dustin givin' the carrots a bath

2. Just like with the tomatoes fill one side of your sink with water for the carrots to soak.

3. Peel the carrots with a potato peeler and cut them in three inch pieces
4. Put the peeled carrots in the other side of the sink to soak some more, just to make sure they are extra clean and to keep them from drying out.

5. Halve peppers lengthwise
6. In each jar put in 1 pepper, 1 garlic clove and 1/4 teaspoon rosemary
7. Pack jars full of carrots.
(Dustin really likes unions, so we put in some onions too, but that is totally optional!)

8. In a regular sized cooking pot combine water, vinegar, sugar and salt bring to a boil

9. Pour vinegar brine over carrots in the jars

10. Get all the air bubbles out of your jars. Use a butter knife and work it up and down all along the side until you don't see any more bubbles rise.
(I made Dustin do that part, cuz it is no fun.)

11. Adjust your lids and rings and process in steam canner for 20-25 minutes
12. Use your handy dandy tools and be careful of the steam, its HOT! Don't get burned!!

When we were all finished up we had 22 quarts and 8 pints!
Here's a glance into my pantry. The jars are full 6 deep. We are building up our food storage a little at a time!

****IMPORTANT!!!****
*Carrots always seem like they take a long time to seal. To ensure that you have a tight seal ALWAYS wait until you see steam coming out of the side of your canner before you start timing!

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Now some other stuff....

Markie Mark
I don't know how it always happens but he always seems to be half dressed or only in his diaper...

My primary lesson was on Ammon and missionary work so I made these little cards and future missionary tags for all my kids! Aren't they cute?!
The tutorial for the shirt is found here!!

and
Happy Father's Day!!!

Hope you spoiled all your daddies!
Have a happy Monday :)