I have a hankering to pickle things (OK no idea where that word came from). I am almost certain that I will begin tomorrow. I know the weird weather and more likely the fact that we bought some small canning jars for another project spurred it on in my mind. It also could be that I did strip my dwarf lemon trees of every fruit they had and preserved those in their juices and salt, lots and lots of salt. Either way I want to make assorted pickles, some types that I know I already love and a few things I am not sure if I will even like.

To go with some idea of what you may or will see posted here I will jot down a few of what I do plan for now. Let me know if you have any other suggestions please.

• Pickled onions. I know they are great on beans (see my non recipe), I recently had a hamburger and was thinking this would just rock even more with some pickled onions on it.
• Pickled carrots. I have always loved these. My Nana used to put up pickles, jalapenos (grandfather was a fiend), and a few other things. Anyways she would make the occasional jar of pickled carrots and would stick a few carrot sticks in the jars of jalapenos too. I found a food crush I can not let go of.
• Pickled radishes. This would be a new one. Just want to try it after seeing some radishes at the store. Plus they can be planted soon anyways – yippee for fast growing vegetables.
• Pickled cabbage (kimchi). Only have barely tried the stuff in a jar that stores carry. That was also about 25 years ago as my dad had a thing for it. Back then he liked things I did not such as blue cheese and well kimchi. Times have changed and I am now interested in giving it another shot.
• Gardenia pickle. I am very tempted to toss a few veggies together to make a gardenia style pickle. Seriously have you seen the prices on this stuff? I know I can get some cauliflower, carrots, celery, boiling onions (hm pickled boiling onions), bell peppers, and peppers. Yeah it can be changed up but I think you get my drift. Perhaps this one though is for actual canning and not just a jar in the chill chest.

I am not that big of a fan of sweet or bread and butter pickles though. I like them sour. I will take the occasional sweet pickle but yeah – just not high on my list.

Off topic, I will get you all some more recipes here again soon along with pictures. I just have been really, really bad about remembering to use the camera. Plus I seriously hate my little point and shoot camera, especially since I have a wonderful Nikon just sitting in my closet with a collection of lenses. I should make the switch and then perhaps I will then remember to take more pictures and better ones at that.

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