This recipe is a slight variation of one of Bobby Flay's recipes. You'll never want to eat store-bought relish again! It is great on hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, and even with potato chips.  You can add it to potato salad or egg salad to boost the flavor. Just a great summer recipe. The only variation I made was that I used four dill pickles and his recipe called for 8 dill pickles. Why? I wanted a smaller ratio of pickles to peppers. That's all. 

Ingredients:
4 large dill pickles, diced
1 red pepper, skin removed, seeded, and diced
1 yellow pepper, skin removed, seeded, and diced
1 small white onion, diced
2 tbsp fresh dill
1 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar
1 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp mustard seeds
2 tbsp sugar
Salt and pepper 

Directions:
1. Bring apple cider, coriander seeds, mustard seeds, and sugar to a boil in a non-reactive pot on top of the stove. Cook over a low boil until reduced by almost a half or until the cider becomes slightly syrupy (around 5 minutes).
2. Combine with rest of ingredients and season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate for a couple of hours before serving. Then enjoy!

Notes: To remove the skins of the peppers, place peppers on a foil-lined baking sheet. Place under the broiler and turn the peppers as each side blisters (there will be some blackening of the skin as they are broiling). Once all sides are blistered, remove peppers from the baking sheet with tongs and place in a paper bag until cool enough to handle. Fold the top of the bag to keep the steam in. The steam that collects in the paper bag will further soften the skins.

How long will it last in the refrigerator? The original recipe did not specify, but my guess is about one week. I ate all of my relish in three days:)  I'm not one to let food sit around in my refrigerator for a long time.

Final Comment: Don't leave out the coriander seeds. They create a wonderful burst of flavor with almost every bite.

It’s true…there is a category of points in Chinese medicine known as the Thirteen Ghost Points! These points were documented in the book the Thousand Ducat Formulas written by the great Chinese physician Sun Si-Miao. He was a prominent physician who lived during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.).

What are Ghost Points used for?
​These points are used to treat mental illness and neurological conditions such as epilepsy. In ancient China, these conditions were thought to be caused by possession of ghosts, demons, or spirits. Sun Si-Miao used selected points from this category combined with herbs to treat symptoms related to mental and neurological disorders.

List of Ghost Points
The following is a list of the Ghost points and some of the symptoms they treat. Feel free to click on the point name to view the anatomical location of the point. So as not to be confused, the Governing Vessel is also referred to as the Du Mai and the Conception Vessel is also referred to as the Ren Mai. Depending on the source, the names of the points may vary.

1. Governing Vessel 26 (Ghost Palace) Loss of consciousness, coma, lockjaw, deviation of the face and mouth, mania-depression, epilepsy, inappropriate laughter,

2.Governing Vessel 16 (Ghost Pillow) Dizziness, upward staring eyes, flaccid tongue with inability to speak, mania, incessant talking, mad walking and desire to commit suicide, sadness and fear with fright palpitations.

3. Governing Vessel 23 (Ghost Hall) Mania-depression, epilepsy.

4. Conception Vessel 24 (Ghost Market) Deviation of mouth and eye, lockjaw, epilepsy, mania-depression.

5. Lung 11 (Ghost Faith) Loss of consciousness, agitation and fullness of the heart with sweating, mania, childhood fright.

6. Large Intestine 11 (Ghost Leg) Agitation and oppression of chest, manic disorders, poor memory, tongue thrusting, dizziness.

7. Stomach 6 (Ghost’s Bed) Deviation of the mouth and eye, lockjaw, epilepsy, inability to open mouth after stroke.

8. Spleen 1 (Ghost Fortress) Agitation, heat in the chest, sighing, propensity to sadness, mania-depression, excessive dreaming, insomnia, chronic childhood fright, loss of consciousness.

9. Pericardium 7 (Ghost Heart) Heart pain, palpitations, insomnia, epilepsy, mania, manic raving, propensity to laugh without ceasing, agitation, weeping with grief, sadness, fright and fear.

10. Pericardium 8 (Ghost Cave) Epilepsy, mania-depression, fright, sadness, propensity to anger, apprehension, ceaseless laughter.

11. Bladder 62 (Ghost Path) Upward staring eyes, epilepsy, lockjaw, stroke with inability to speak, hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth, eye and face, mania-depression, palpitations, Heart fright, insomnia.

12. Guifeng (Ghost Seal) This point is located underneath the tongue and is contraindicated for needling. It can only be bled using a lancet needle. Mania-depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy.

13. Conception Vessel 1 (Ghost Store) This point corresponds to extra points Yinxiafeng (men) and Yumentou in women. Coma, mania, depression.
 
Spooky Note: Midway through writing this blog there was a flash of light on my laptop and all of the text disappeared. Unfortunately, I was not able to retrieve the information so I had to start all over again. I started writing this blog for the second time on my laptop at home and for the second time there was a flash of light and I lost almost the entire blog. Coincidence? I don’t know. The third time I decided to write it in Word and then copy and paste it.