Dill
I like pickles. Sweet, sour, or dill. In the United States when we speak of pickle we assume it is a pickled cucumber unless otherwise specified. I recently read a book of 150 pickle recipes, there are an endless number of things that can be pickled. Yet a simple dill cucumber pickle can be so satisfying. In my local markets I have a hard time finding fresh dill, I ran across this cart full at the Eastern Market in Detroit. A lifetime supply for me. The smell was heavenly.
Have you made fresh pickles?
Jerry and i used to can every year when we lived on the Connecticut shoreline. We won best-in-show for our Kosher Dills... although I don't know what made them "Kosher" since it certainly wasn't us or our kitchen.
ReplyDeleteSalt cured = Koshering. Pickles, corned beef, are examples of foods cured or preserved using a brine.
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DeleteHa! OK, I knew they were kosher dills; they just weren't KOSHER dills.
I never eat pickles, so I don't can them. You can get one package of dill seeds for less than $2 and have all the dill you and the neighborhood needs.
ReplyDeleteI don't like pickles, so no.
ReplyDeleteNope, too lazy! I can't even eat them now because my meds make all things pickley taste like metal. Gross.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time i made some but I was too timorous to eat them lest they were bad.
ReplyDeleteI think home made pickles are the food of the gods.