8/05/2019 – The second and third ferments turned out very good. The row of okra in the garden daily produces 10-15 more small tender okra pods. We now have enough to make a quart and a pint. This ferment turned … Continue reading
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7/19/2019 – Mary trimmed the stems from fresh small okra pods from our garden. She stuffed them tightly into a wide-mouth pint jar with garlic chunks. On 7/23/2019 we tried them. They were crunchy and had a good flavor that … Continue reading
7/16/2019 – Jalapeno peppers fresh from our garden. Stemmed and cut in half leaving seeds. Add three cloves of garlic to each of the two pints. Tried them after a week and they are painfully hot. Tried them a week … Continue reading
7/16/2019 – The ferment is essentially the same as our second that had been made in Houston on 10/15/2017 with a 6% brine and store-bought peppers and carrots. This time we used jalapenos grown in our garden and picked the … Continue reading
8/11/2019 – This journal entry will be left up even though both ferments were a total failure. In both cases, the cucumbers were soft and almost mushy. The dill flavor was lost in the ferment taste. The second ferment was … Continue reading
7/15/2019 – This style is Mary’s favorite. I added more dill this time as the 3rd batch had more and she liked it a lot. But, this level of dill was too much. Next ferment will be like the 3rd. … Continue reading
7/3/2019 – With too many large cucumbers we decided a solution would be to fill two one-gallon jars with slices to make fermented dill pickles. This did not work. Based on the 1/2 gallon recipe here we prepared the following. … Continue reading
We like this dill-based kraut better than anything we have made. So, time to start experimenting with the ingredients–particularly the dill. This batch contains 25% more dill at 4.6 gm rather than only 3.7. On 7/23/2019, after it has been … Continue reading
5/11/2019 – This was our first Giardiniera made at the farm and we used mostly the white parts of the bunching onions from the garden. We repeated the use of a 6% brine as was successful for us in Houston. … Continue reading
5/5/2019 – We made this with swiss chard and green bunching onions from our garden. We used the white lower parts of the larger onions and only the inner small tender leaves. The red stems of the chard were included. … Continue reading