Pickling Day
Just a quick update on the belly. Here’s my 20 week photo from Myrtle Beach.
I’m 23 weeks today and the belly has really been growing fast! Will post another picture soon.
This weekend we had a lovely pickling day. It was overcast and cool which made it a perfect day to have the canning pot steaming.
I have never grown my own pickling cukes. We go down the road to the farm and get a 10 pound bag. The nice thing about this is all the cucumbers are close to the same size, fresh and ready for pickling.
Last year, we fermented all of the 10 pounds using a recipe from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
Did I mention I love this book? These recipes came from The Joy of Pickling
The rest of the pickles were processed using a recipe from our local newspaper: Damn Good Garlic Dills. Most of these were processed, and a few jars were placed in the fridge ready to be eaten as soon as we finish of the few jars left from last year.
Strings and Yarn 
Yay– you look awesome and yay for Pickling Day! Thank you, I see new books in my future. I cannot remember to pick up pickling spices so I made some kimchi-esque pickles the other day just so my cucumbers wouldn’t go bad and I could eat them this week. I also finally bought a case of jars so now the pressure is building to *use* them. :)
So much fun. Already the pickles in the big glass jar are changing color as the brine works its fermenting magic…
oh, I love myrtle beach! We went this year for spring break. I hope you guys had an awesome time (I’m sure you did).
Also, I’m sorry we didn’t get down to see you, but we never ended up heading south. There’s too darn much to see in Oregon, and Matt wanted to visit lots of mountains.
congrats on being pregnant! you look great!!
i ate a lot of pickles while i was pregnant too – i bought a huge jar of them at costco!
And Linda’s from Oregon!