Thursday, May 30, 2013

Refrigerator pickle recipes

Here are a couple of my refrigerator pickle recipes:

Lazy Jalapeno Pickles

Cucumbers
Jalapenos
Garlic
kosher salt
white vinegar
pickling spice
hot tap water
pint (16 oz) sized mason jars (Ball mason or similar)

1.    Cut cucumbers into chip.
2.    Slice up garlic about 1 large per jar.
3.    Fill with cucumber wedges make it packed.
4.    Put 1/8" slices of jalapeno into jar.  I used 2 large per 3 jars.
6.    Add 1 tsp kosher salt to each jar
7.    Add 1 tsp pickling spice to each jar
8.    Fill each jar 1/2 way with white vinegar.
9.    Fill the rest of the jar to the collar with hot tap water.
10.  Put lid on and put in fridge for a couple weeks at least.

Garlic Dill fridge pickles

Cucumbers
kosher salt
white vinegar
pickling spice
garlic
fresh dill
hot tap water
pint (16 oz) sized mason jars (Ball mason or simular)

1.    Cut cucumbers to 1/4 slices enough to fill the amount of mason jars you want.
2.    Add one and a half cloves of garlic sliced to each jar
3.    Fill with cucumber slices 1/2 way
4.    Add dill, I used alot
5.    Add cucumbers to collar of jar, if not enough use some carrots or cauliflower.
6.    Add 1 tsp kosher salt to each jar
7.    Add 1 pinch pickling spice to each jar
8.    Fill each jar 1/2 way with white vinegar.
9.    Fill the rest of the jar to the collar with hot tap water.
10.  Put lid on and put in fridge for a couple weeks at least.




Sunday, May 26, 2013

May 2013 Update

This winter/spring has been a cold one.  Some of the bitter cold nights killed off the cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries, herbs and salad greens.  But before that I had hundreds of cherry tomatoes.  Made many salads from the salad greens.  Had a couple strawberries and even got enough cucumbers to make 3 mason jars of refrigerator pickles.  As of right now only the onions and garlic survived.  Since the weird weather has started to change back to normal I will be starting to replant.  I have some cherry tomatoes and hot peppers in the seed starter right now.