What Are You Preserving, and How Are You Doing It? (2016–)

[lemniscate]

 

@Steve IrbyAre you doing fresh dills with the pickles?    It's rare I can find small pickles here and they're usually over the hill, but I love a half-sour out of the jar/crock.   Can't even seem to find the commercial half-sours here anymore, tastes are changing it seems.

Edited July 2 by lemniscate (log)

[Steve Irby]

On 7/2/2025 at 8:49 AM, lemniscate said:

 

@Steve IrbyAre you doing fresh dills with the pickles?    It's rare I can find small pickles here and they're usually over the hill, but I love a half-sour out of the jar/crock.   Can't even seem to find the commercial half-sours here anymore, tastes are changing it seems.

I certainly agree with the changing taste observation.  I'm making an old school sweet pickles from a recipe that my Mom used so it goes back 90+ years. It's been the benchmark for  generations and is immediately identifiable in potato salad or coleslaw.  The cucumbers have to be really fresh and smallish so this batch turned out  really well.   

[Shelby]

Had a craving for @HungryChris' marinated mushrooms so got a jar of those going a couple days ago

 

 

Annnnnnd it's that time of year again!  Crock of pickles started day before yesterday.

 

[RWood]

This is the first batch of Hatch Chiles I have gotten in the freezer. My mom was at Kroger and grabbed them for me. But, she got the hot ones. So, I got two more bags of the mild, and figure I’ll mix so as not to hurt anybody just in case. They were $1.49/lb, which I thought was a good price. 

[Shelby]

22 minutes ago, RWood said:

This is the first batch of Hatch Chiles I have gotten in the freezer. My mom was at Kroger and grabbed them for me. But, she got the hot ones. So, I got two more bags of the mild, and figure I’ll mix so as not to hurt anybody just in case. They were $1.49/lb, which I thought was a good price. 

I've been doing the same thing.  Misfits has had Hatch chiles for several weeks now.  I can't seem to stop buying and freezing them lol.