When I was little, my mom and grandma used to make a canned veggie salad for winter. I remember watching them carefully.
My mother first went to the market with my dad, and they’d buy the ingredients: a big sack of fresh, juicy tomatoes, 2 sacks of eggplants, another sack of bell peppers, and onions.
They always did this at the end of August, and they picked the best veggies from local farmers.
My parents followed a recipe from our grandparents. It was a special recipe, passed down from previous generations.