Pickling 2010

Sound like wonderful recipes, SensorG. Did you just add the main ingredients together to did you cook/season them before adding the pickling?

I'm also curious - did you grow or purchase the vidalias? They're my favorite and I've thought about trying to grow them, but not sure they would be as sweet in the soil we have here.

I grew almost everything but the garlic and onions. I always thought what made a vidalia was the soil it was grown in.

I winged most of it by combining reading bunches of recipes.

Here is the bread and butter recipe I used -
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/bread-and-butter-pickles-ii/Detail.aspx

I substituted sweet yellow peppers for green peppers. They smelled awesome.

"I always thought what made a vidalia was the soil it was grown in."

Me too - in fact, I thought I read once that vidalias can only be called vidalias if they're grown in Georgia.

Being allergic to garlic, I'll skip that part. :) But thanks for the recipe!

I need to try pickling the old-fashioned way. I've just been soaking cut-up cukes in vinegar, salt and spices coz we don't eat that many pickles, but we also can't eat all teh cukes we grow (don't ask why we still grow them, lol, I don't know!) so I experiment. gotta try this recipe, thanks!

Ironic you post this was looking up pickle recipies in hopes of making some this weekend. Nice crop too and love habaneros never tried pickled though. Ever had pickled corn? Smells horrible but taste good. My dad found a stone jar for me so making some family kraut in the near future.
Thanks again for posting gonna try that recipe you linked

Recommend a good place to buy jars? Picked up my first batch last year from walley world.

I bought my jars over at the Andersons. They’re the same jars you can get anywhere, but I shop there often so I picked them up. The hardest part is waiting 4-6 weeks to eat them. We did have one jar dill pickles not seal right; we waited a week and dug in. They tested great, but I wish they could have been a bit crisper.

My Grandmother used to jar Pickalily (Sp?) It was half relish half salsa. I wish I had her reciepe!

Man those cherry tomatoes look amazing!

Thanks - I'm hoping they taste as good as they look. I planted 5 tomatoes - 1 big boy, 1 golden tomato, 1 green zebra (very good) and two cherry. My family can’t eat the things fast enough. We’re given them away left and right and I’m even pickling the cherry tomatoes. A real bumper crop. The green beans are almost done, thank god; I’m getting tired of them.

We probably have a bit to large of a garden this year. We’re just not home enough to use it all. Between T-ball for the kids one night and softball for me and my wife works two nights per week. We give lots away, but some goes to waste too.

Wow. That's awesome!

I was told to add Rye bread to make the pickling go faster because of the yeast.

Never been a big pickler though so I couldn't tell you.

Home grown tomatoes are the best. Can't beat 'em, I say.

I had pickled green beans not long ago - my host served them as a garnish for cocktails instead of olives or cocktail onions - and they were amazing.

Your pickled cherry tomatoes look better than anything I've seen this year. Or last year. Or the year before.