INGREDIENTS:
INGREDIENTS:
- 12 3 to 4 inch long pickling cucumbers
- 2 cups water
- 1 3/4 cups white vinegar
- 1 1/2 cups chopped fresh dill weed
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 8 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 1/2 tablespoons coarse salt
- 1 tablespoon pickling spice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dill seed
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or to taste
- 4 sprigs fresh dill weed
DIRECTIONS:
- In a large bowl, combine the cucumbers, water, vinegar, chopped dill, sugar, garlic, salt, pickling spice, dill seed, and red pepper flakes. Stir, and let stand at room temperature for 2 hours, until the sugar and salt dissolve.
- Remove the cucumbers to three 1 1/2 pint wide mouth jars, placing 4 cucumbers into each jar. Ladle in the liquid from the bowl to cover. Place a sprig of fresh dill into each jar, and seal with lids. Refrigerate for 10 days before eating. Use within 1 month.
Posted by Angela under Appetizers, Picnic, Side Dishes, Snacks
Adapted from The Grrl Genius Guide to Life: A 12-Step Program on How to Become a Grrl Genius, According to Me! by Cathryn Michon.
Serves Enough
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 (or some) boiled white potatoes
- 2 (or some) boiled red potatoes
- 2 (or some) boiled purple potatoes
- 2 (or some) boiled Yukon gold potatoes
- 2 (or some) boiled sweet potatoes
- 3 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 each red, yellow, purple, green, and orange bell peppers, diced
- 1 red onion, diced
- 1 cup low-fat mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup nonfat yogurt
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 tablespoons rough-cut Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon aged balsamic vinegar
- 1 cup diced parsley
- Salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS:
- Chop the potatoes and the hard-boiled eggs and put in an enormous bowl with the diced peppers and onion.
- In a less-enormous bowl mix up all the other ingredients.
- Dump the less enormous bowl into the more enormous bowl and toss gaily. Salt and pepper to taste.
Note: Delicious if you eat it now, even better tomorrow.
Posted by Angela under Dinner, Engagement Party Food, Picnic, Side Dishes