Love this time of year. Pickles!

Nematode · August 8, 2019

Quick pickles rule!

And stick to horizontal surfaces too i guess.

greenthumbomaha · August 8, 2019

Looks great! Recipe please!!!

- Lisa

Nematode · August 8, 2019

Recipe
I also usually add onion and garlic.
Can make them in about the time it takes to chop the veggies up.
Crowd favorite and mine as well.
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/s...-quick-pickles

greenthumbomaha · August 8, 2019

Thanks, Nematode. This is just what I needed. I have to watch my salt and sugar, and this one doesn't go over the top on either. I have plenty of dill this year (unusual for me, hope it likes the new locations and pops up next year) and more garlic than I know what to do with. Cukes are coming in every day now, so I'm set. Will report back!

- Lisa

greenthumbomaha · August 18, 2019

Every other day I pick 2 huge fat cukes which reunite with their bushmates on the kitchen table, and that is about all I have to report.

Bumped to get going.
- Lisa

Worth1 · August 18, 2019

I watch my salt intake in the winter and ignore it in the summer.
I sweat so much and don't eat processed foods nor drink sports drinks I can actually get low on electrolytes.
Which is dangerous big time in my line of work.
The reason for my fermented pickles.
Remember any volume of table or canning salt is only 40% sodium. the other 60% is chloride.
So my 3 tablespoons of canning salt I use in a quart of water = about 20.5 grams of sodium.
Then only about half of that goes in the quart of pickles I ferment which would make it round 10 grams.
In that I'm eating the pickles not the juice.
My wife years ago with all good intent put me on a no salt, fake salt, no sodium, no protein diet and it literally almost killed me working on an oil rig in West Texas.

By the way the pickles look very nice.

August 8, 2019	#2
greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	Looks great! Recipe please!!! - Lisa

August 8, 2019	#3
Nematode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: massachusetts Posts: 1,710	Recipe I also usually add onion and garlic. Can make them in about the time it takes to chop the veggies up. Crowd favorite and mine as well. http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/s...-quick-pickles

August 18, 2019	#5
greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	Every other day I pick 2 huge fat cukes which reunite with their bushmates on the kitchen table, and that is about all I have to report. Bumped to get going. - Lisa

August 18, 2019	#6
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I watch my salt intake in the winter and ignore it in the summer. I sweat so much and don't eat processed foods nor drink sports drinks I can actually get low on electrolytes. Which is dangerous big time in my line of work. The reason for my fermented pickles. Remember any volume of table or canning salt is only 40% sodium. the other 60% is chloride. So my 3 tablespoons of canning salt I use in a quart of water = about 20.5 grams of sodium. Then only about half of that goes in the quart of pickles I ferment which would make it round 10 grams. In that I'm eating the pickles not the juice. My wife years ago with all good intent put me on a no salt, fake salt, no sodium, no protein diet and it literally almost killed me working on an oil rig in West Texas. By the way the pickles look very nice.