Hobbies Wednesday - what have you done this week? Can be anything from cooking to tabletop rpg to gardening, scuba diving, etc.
Hobbies Wednesday - what have you done this week? Can be anything from cooking to tabletop rpg to gardening, scuba diving, etc.
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Made homemade red onion pickles and cucumber pickles, and a batch of peach iced tea this weekend just gone. Haven't eaten the pickles yet, as I like to let them mature a few days, but the iced tea turned out real lovely. (Shame I didn't take a photo of the onions, because I used distilled vinegar this time around, so they took on a really nice pink colour!)
I was just looking up recipes to can peaches and peach syrup for tea or sangria. This will be my first canning attempt. Hoping to learn a little while i wait for my cucumbers to grow to pickle size.
hell yeah for pickled red onions - such an awesome item to have in your fridge at all times and they make most things better. i forgot about my most recent batch for a few months but that's the beauty of pickling lol, they are still delicious even now. super easy too, i recommend anyone reading this who has never tried before to give it a shot - it takes like 10 minutes and most of that is boiling water/vinegar.
have you ever tried lacto-fermenting vegetables? it scratches the same itch pickling does for me, and it gives the veg a flavor that is hard to get otherwise. i like to do hot peppers mostly, but you can chuck anything in there really.
Exactly. It's easy to do, and yields fantastic results!
I've never done lacto-fermenting before, might have to give that a go
do it! there are tons of how-to videos and articles online about fermentation. my only warnings are:
- make sure your containers are clean
- know what kahm yeast looks like and that it's safe so you don't freak out and think it's mold just in case you grow some
i would say it is only marginally more difficult than pickling. you just have to calculate how much salt you need in the brine by weight - generally 2-5% of the combined weight of the water + veg - then you chuck the stuff in a jar and wait. the easiest way i've found is to weigh the veg in the jar covered with water, then pour the water out, add salt and pour back in so you have the perfect amount of brine. the only downside about it is you have to wait a while (up to a couple weeks depending on what you want).