I seem to fancy photos involving glass this time each year. Last week, my mother, sister, and I bottled what we call chow chow (also known as mustard pickles). I don’t know how it got the name chow chow, but that’s what my grandmother called it. I love the tangy taste of the mustard sauce on all of the other ingredients, which include cucumbers, pearl onions, and cauliflower. When I was a kid, I wondered why my mom and grandmother only used pints for bottling them. I don’t wonder anymore. Cutting up the veggies and pealing those tiny onions for 23 pints was enough to make me look crosseyed and vow to not do this again for another two years, but they sure look pretty through the glass of the jars.
IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO (OR THREE OR…) OF ITEMS VIEWED THROUGH GLASS OF ANY KIND.
Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography. Here’s how it works:
- Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
- To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ and “Photo a Week” tags.
- Come back here and post a link to your image in the comments for this challenge.
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I love chow chow. My mother made it as well, also a sauce with tomatoes called chili sauce and it had no chili in it. Funny how name of foods get done. I will post my pictures later.
I’m so glad to know the name wasn’t just a whimsy of my grandmother. Looking forward to you pictures.
Ah, I love the yellow jars. So lovely! Reminds me of pickling and jelly making – some of which my family still does.
Here’s my contribution for this challenge –
https://naamayehuda.com/2018/10/18/mirrored/
Na’ama
Here is my contribution: https://chava61.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/a-photo-a-week-challenge-through-glass/
I’ve always wanted to learn how to jar veggies and fruits. What fun to be able to share the creating them with your mother and sister. Hope you enjoy my photo this week.
Isadora 😎
Thanks, Isadora!
Growing up my mother served “Irish peas” I only learned later that they were actually marrowfat peas or English mushy peas.
https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-photo-week-challenge_18.html
I’ve heard of chow chow, but I didn’t realize it looked like this. I thought it was more like a relish.
janet
Some is more of a relish. This is probably not traditional chow chow.
Love the pickle jars! They somehow always look mouthwateringly good to me, maybe from anticipation of biting into the pickled stuff. 🙂
I certainly love biting into them. 🙂 Yum!
Great challenge, Nancy! Here’s my take on it: https://angelafurtadophotography.com/2018/10/19/a-photo-a-week-through-glass/
https://wp.me/paft0G-97 here’s my share. Thank you.
I like your photo for this week. 😀
I stayed pretty classic and chose windows.
https://ceenphotography.com/2018/10/19/a-photo-a-week-challenge-through-glass/
I really like your photo this week Nancy 🙂
Here is my contribution
http://bushboy.blog/2018/10/20/through-glass/
never heard of it but it looks nice and surely it tastes good.
Hi Nancy….here are a few pictures for the A Photo A Week Challenge with the topic “Through Glass”. I enjoyed the challenge. Please let me know what you think as I am new to this.
Link to my pictures: https://messygardenerblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/a-photo-a-week-challenge-through-glass/
Thanks, Nancy.
here are some old and new ‘reflections’: https://quincyharley.wordpress.com/2018/10/20/reflections-through-glass
I remember my grandmother talking about chow chow. She was from Virginia, but I’ve never made it, or remember eating it. It sure is pretty in those jars.
I don’t think our chow chow is the same as in the east or south, but I sure love it. 🙂
I did not know about chow chow. It looks delicious – a mustard lover’s delight!
My contribution (also delicious) 🙂
http://oneletterup.com/2018/10/20/a-photo-a-week-challenge-through-glass
loved your jars! nostalgic… Here;s mine – https://heartoheart2017.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/from-the-observation-deck-at-cn-tower/
Here is my entry! Thanks for this challenge. So much fun to look through my pictures with this challenge.
http://singlikewildflowers.com/2018/10/22/a-photo-a-week-challenge-through-glass