I've been on a bit of a ferment kick, making soy yoghurt, cashew and soy cheese, and sourdough bread.
Continuing my journey as "head of culture" at home, I want to start playing with fruit and veg ferments soon, but i haven't had a glut of anything yet this season.
For now, it's just day dreaming. Feed my imagination: what are your favourite fermented foods to make (or eat)?
I Have The Answer!
I know where Peter Piper’s pickled peppers are! They are in my kitchen. At least, about a third of them are.
I had some peppers in my refrigerator that were not going to be used up before they shrivelled up, so I decided to pickle them. I had pickled some peppers a couple of months previously and was quite pleased with the result, so I decided to use the same recipe again.
I used to do quite a lot of canning when my children were still children, and I have kept the canning bath, the jar grabber, and some jars and lids. So, I was ready!
After the process was complete and the hot jars were cooling on my kitchen counter, I was reminded of the old tongue-twister about Peter Piper that was first published in John Harris’s Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation in 1813:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
So, that got me wondering, how much is a peck?
When I Googled it, I was told that a peck is 9.3 quarts, which is equivalent to 8801 millilitres. I had five 500-millilitre jars for a total of 2500 millilitres. That, I decided, was near-as-dammit a third of a peck.
So, there you have it. About a third of Peter Piper’s pickled peppers are on my kitchen counter. They are accompanied by some pickled carrots because I had excess brine.
Now to find out why putting things in jars is called canning.
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Afterthought: The pecks keep coming. I just remembered the Doris Day song that includes the line “I love you, a bushel and a peck,” and the peck is a reference to a measurement, not a kiss!
#canning #crafts #humour #jars #peck #peppers #PeterPiper #pickles #tongueTwisters
So long bookcase, hello pickle case
Kam zufällig ins Tarantino #burger in Koukaki #Athen, hübsch alternativ, selbstgemachte #Pickles ... und überhaupt guter Burger
Homemade Dill Pickles with fennel seeds are just amazing. Recipe from Max's Sandwich Book. #food #pickles 🥒
Dill Pickle Nationalism!
Don't underestimate the importance of Dill Pickles in the Sovereignty debate!
These ones are now my go to pickles. Really good and have a bit of a kick! Available at most supermarkets in Canada.
#Pickles
#Canada #Sovereignty #Tariffs #ShopCanadian #ElbowsUp #CanadaIsAwesome #ByeAmerican #AnywhereButTheUSA
Still shopping Canadian. Still discovering new products that are better.
Needed dill pickles for a recipe. Found Putter's Crunchy Dill Pickles from Québec, since 1948. They're very good! Better.
Gotta find their Sauerkraut.
Why didn't I pay attention!? So annoyed with myself that I accepted easy instead of good.
#Pickles
#Canada #Sovereignty #Tariffs #ShopCanadian #ElbowsUp #CanadaIsAwesome #ByeAmerican #AnywhereButTheUSA
You can smell the #pickles from a block away just adjacent to Kossar's 1936 #bialy conjures up memory of #AmyIrving in Crossing #Delancey spurning the #pickle man in favor of #arrogant #French #novelist
😂 Surprise, surprise! Adafruit's mad because Arduino's "Open Source" is as open as a sealed jar of pickles! 🥒 Meanwhile, The New Stack is too busy collecting emails like it's a Pokémon game. 🎮📧
https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/ #Adafruit #Arduino #OpenSource #Pickles #TheNewStack #HackerNews #ngated
"In the pantheon of #cookbooks to have come out of the #Syrian #Jewish community (and there are many), one reigns supreme. It isn’t elegant or sleek and has no high-quality photographs to accompany its #recipes. In fact, it’s completely void of color, save for its cover, a banal red jacket stamped with an unassuming title: #DealDelights: #Cookbook presented by Sisterhood of Deal #Synagogue. A few geometric shapes resembling pots look as if they’ve been pulled from a bygone version of Microsoft Word and stand in for cover art. Its pages are fastened together by three large binder rings, and its chapters are organized like so:
#Appetizers and #Pickles
#Beverages and #Breads
#Soups, #Sauces, #Salads
#Fish & #Poultry
#Meat Dishes
The “#RedCookbook,” as it’s casually called, is not just a guide to #SyrianJewish #cooking. In fact, I almost always fall into hyperbole when explaining what this text means to us. It’s a #kitchen staple, much like salt or oil."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/food/articles/cookbook-legend-deal-delights
From:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-07-02/whole-foods-pickle-kombucha
"I love pickles. Dill pickles, kosher dill pickles, cornichons, full-sour pickles, half-sour pickles, quarter-sour pickles, quick pickles, gherkins, German senfgurken. Not bread and butter pickles. Those are not pickles. The flaccid, round slices with their fluorescent yellow tint and sickeningly sweet flavor are a disgrace to the pickle name." Viktoria Shulevich
Yesterday's dinner/昨日の夕飯/2025.11.29
職場で作ってる小カブを「こと路」さんの「わさび昆布」で千枚漬け風に漬けたのと赤カブをお漬物にしたのと小カブをお味噌汁にしたのと小カブとかを炊いたんで昨日の夕飯(^_^)v
#YesterdaysDinner 昨日の #夕飯
#LittleTurnip #小カブ
#SimmeredDish #炊いたん
#pickles #漬物
#MisoSoup #味噌汁
#こと路 #わさび昆布
💜 Went to a pickle tasting this past week. I'm now the proud owner of 3 jars of sweet garlic pickles! Local company out of Bear Creek, NC. OMG so good! 🥒
💜 Cleaned Sherb's cage and only got bit once. HARD. Fierce momma. 🪺 🦜
💜 Finally went thru my bookmarks list from all the music you lovely people have shared. Great tunes! :MusicNotes:
https://www.southernsupreme.com/11oz-Sandy-Company-Sweet-Garlic-Dills/productinfo/06006/
#Pickles #Comix #PicklesComix
https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/7d51815082ab013eb633005056a9545d?optimizer=image&width=2400&quality=85
Earl is petting his dog: Oh, that feels good
He speaks to himself: I can actually feel my blood pressure going down as I pet your head and stroke your fur.
He enjoys it: Down, Down, Down, Down, Down, ...
His wife Opal emerges: What are you doing?
She!: You promised to clean the grout in the kitchen tiles today
Earl oh the sofa, head down: Up, Up, Up, Up, Up, Up, Up, ...
Japanese pickles (tsukemono) offer an incredible range of flavors, textures, and techniques. From lightly salted asazuke that are ready in hours to fermented pickles that develop over months, each style brings something unique to the table. #food #recipe #japanesefood #pickles
https://sudachirecipes.com/japanese-pickles/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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