Half-Sour Pickle update
Not so tasty! I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t use the Bell’s pickling spices (because I forgot to buy them) and they have a nicer mix of ingredients… or if I just like a saltier pickle. So I dumped out the brine, rinsed the pickles, made up a new brine with double the [...]
My weekend in pickles
So it turns out a bushel of little Kirby cucumbers makes something like 40 quarts of pickles. It makes considerably less than 40 quarts when the person doing the pickling has planned said pickling for the hottest Sunday of the year and the air conditioning is on the fritz. Dumb. Hiney. I have missed my [...]
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recent grace blog
- 771. Furnace that came on without a hitch (58 in the house, time for some heat). 2. It's going to snow tonight. (no, I'm not happy about it... but it's good practice.) 3. Last year's fingerless gloves are even softer this year. 4. Hot tea with local honey so soothing on this scratchy throat. 5. Flannel sheets fresh from the dryer for a bed […]
Urban Farm or MFA – this will help either way
