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.

 

 

[YvetteMT]

Tell me it's canning season without telling me it's canning season-

 

35 pounds of jalapeños tomorrow will become cowboy candy. 

[DesertTinker]

1 hour ago, YvetteMT said:

Tell me it's canning season without telling me it's canning season-

 

35 pounds of jalapeños tomorrow will become cowboy candy. 

Obviously you’ve done this before, a first timer wouldn’t know to do this much prep the day before. Will this be a one woman production, or do you have help?

Edited 1 hour ago by DesertTinker
Clarity (log)

[YvetteMT]

58 minutes ago, DesertTinker said:

Obviously you’ve done this before, a first timer wouldn’t know to do this much prep the day before. Will this be a one woman production, or do you have help?

It's a one woman show.   I've not done this many at once (this is at least double my usual) and my concession to the amount will be using the food processor to slice the peppers!