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in_a_pickleWelcome to all who love to dabble in the business of pickling and preserving! I used to help my grandmother with this when I was a child (most of my most treasured memories involve my grandmother and myself preparing enormous amounts of vegetables from the allotment prior to storing - or a mixing bowl, a wooden spoon and lots of lovely cake ingredients).
Now that I have a permanent base with my partner of four years I have picked up this craft again. I began with cabbage and eggs, but have also successfully made chutney, onion and rosemary confiturra and piccalilli from scratch.
Red Onion and Rosemary Confiturra
First batch of Piccalilli. Since it was made the colour has settled from this honey gold to a far more recognisable mustard yellow
My anything-goes "Tribble Towers" Chutney. So-named because Tribble Towers is what we call our home!
I'm more than happy to share recipes of all of these goodies - just ask!
Firstly though, I'd like you all to pull up a chair around the kitchen table and use this post to get to know each other.
Now that I have a permanent base with my partner of four years I have picked up this craft again. I began with cabbage and eggs, but have also successfully made chutney, onion and rosemary confiturra and piccalilli from scratch.
Red Onion and Rosemary Confiturra
First batch of Piccalilli. Since it was made the colour has settled from this honey gold to a far more recognisable mustard yellow
My anything-goes "Tribble Towers" Chutney. So-named because Tribble Towers is what we call our home!
I'm more than happy to share recipes of all of these goodies - just ask!
Firstly though, I'd like you all to pull up a chair around the kitchen table and use this post to get to know each other.
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Date: 2011-12-29 02:34 pm (UTC)I've gotten more experience in canning and preserving this last year when we had a small garden. The first freeze killed my pepper and tomato plants, so I was left with lots of jalpeños and baby green tomatoes I couldn't bear wasting. I ended up pickling them all and it turned out pretty well. This year I'm hoping to have a much bigger garden.
Jams, jellies and chutneys are things I don't do much of. I've made marmalade and peach jam before, and every year at thanksgiving I make canned homemade cranberry sauce to give to my family.
I always like seeing different recipes. I may share some of mine since some of them are pretty easy. :D
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Date: 2011-12-29 02:39 pm (UTC)We only have a small vegetable patch and our greenhouse, but during the summer months we're never short of the sweetest tomatoes I've ever tasted! We also grow carrots, mange tout, radishes (again, so much sweeter than anything in the supermarket) and had a very good success rate with beetroot this year. I hadn't thought about pickling at the time, but we quickly discovered that leftover beets add wonderful texture and colour to chilli, stews and bologneise! I have some quite long flower borders that never seem to get completely filled in, so I might begin hiding vegetables in amongst the flowers, as is now quite popular in large town centres across England :)