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Even people who hate vegetables find pickled vegetables to be a treat. You can pickle anything - onions, summer squash, cauliflower, peas, beans, peppers, beets, carrots, turnips, cabbage, peaches - you name it. People will eat it before it is fully pickled because it tastes good. Here's Perpetual Pickles for you with gardens.

Vegetables (like fruit) are nutritionally borderline-useless, but they can be made to be tasty. Thus far this summer I have produced many half-pints and a couple of quart jars of hot pepper jelly, and about 12 quarts of dilly beans. Waiting for my peaches to ripen to make Peach Chutney. I did not grow cucumbers this year. I forget why.

Here's quick and easy Crisp Pickled Vegetables

Here's Canning and Pickling. It's a labor of love and makes no damn sense at all.

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 13:24 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Peach chutney is one of my favorite things. This year we were the happy recipients of a bounty of sweet cherries from our local Amish store and I made a few batches of the chutney with the cherries and dark raisins instead of peaches and golden raisins. So very tasty.

#1 weaver (Link) on 2015-08-02 13:34 (Reply)

"I did not grow cucumbers this year. I forget why."

Because, like zucchini, they glut out and become useful only as in position plowable compost.

#2 Vanderleun on 2015-08-02 14:19 (Reply)

Perfect diet for fit and healthy male: steak, bacon, eggs, potatoes, clams, oysters, beer, ice cream, and pie.

#2.1 bd on 2015-08-03 12:36 (Reply)

Vegetables (like fruit) are nutritionally borderline-useless

"nutritionally useless?

Help us here. Did you just float in with the tide?

#3 Paul A'Barge on 2015-08-02 15:41 (Reply)

In your list of vegetables to pickle, you omitted a verrrry important one: okra!

Even Yankees can eat okra (and enjoy it) when it is pickled.

And it goes GREAT with Curtis' BBQ.

#4 donb on 2015-08-02 18:42 (Reply)

I'm waiting (impatiently ) for enough okra to be ready to pickle. So far I've picked one.

#4.1 fjord on 2015-08-02 19:28 (Reply)

Every time visitors drop in they ask: "Do you still have any of that pickled okra".

#4.2 oolioo on 2015-08-03 11:46 (Reply)

Vegetables (like fruit) are nutritionally borderline-useless

"nutritionally useless?

That jumped out at me, also.

Mac 'n Cheese must be a superfood.

#5 Jim on 2015-08-03 00:24 (Reply)

One multivit a day will cover all of that, and more

#5.1 Bird Dog on 2015-08-03 07:07 (Reply)

well, to qualify that, everybody not on a diet needs mashed taters for carbs.

fruit is just a warm popsicle. eat em if you like em but not because it's virtuous. Do not take nutritional advice from the government or Michelle Obama.

#5.1.1 Bird Dog on 2015-08-03 07:09 (Reply)

for those a little more energetic (requires water bath canning) you can make chow-chow. There are southern and PA Dutch versions.

I usually use cauliflower, carrots, green beans, celery, small amounts of sweet peppers and if I have to fill space - cucumbers and cabbage and even sweet corn (cut off the cob). I make cases of this every summer.
My friend uses kidney beans and dry mustard in hers (yuck, I omit this)
It's like a bread and butter brine for veggies.

http://www.mrfood.com/Relishes-Sauces-Seasonings/Amish-Chow-Chow-Relish

*If i precook (hot pack) the veggies I process for 15 minutes, if not 25-30 minutes is better. otherwise your carrots are hard.

*not responsible for any cases of food poisoning from failed water bath canning attempts. Get the blue ball book of canning.
Also a good tip that I read somewhere, keep the stem/blossom ends on your cucumbers and pickles will stay crisp through processing. Remove them = squishy.

#6 fjord on 2015-08-03 06:51 (Reply)

So let's see here...

Adults don't need much protein so meat and eggs are out for the most part.

Vegetables are nearly nutritionally useless, so no point eating much of those.

Carbs such as bread, past, and potatoes are not good for you beyond a small minimum, so leave them where they lie....

Just what on earth are we supposed to eat?

#7 knucklehead (Link) on 2015-08-03 10:35 (Reply)

Like I say, a fit male adult needs mashed taters, steak and meat, clams, oysters, cheeses, fried and scrambled eggs, pulled pork, bacon, collard greens with pig foot...etc.

#7.1 bd on 2015-08-03 14:09 (Reply)

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