Pickles!

Hello friends!  It is no secret that pickles are amazingly refreshing, delicious, and tangy.  But did you also know that they were incredibly easy to make, and that once you do, nearly impossible to go back to store bought pickles?

Ingredients:

3 Cups water

6 Tbs. white vinegar

3 Tbs. kosher salt

5 cloves Minced garlic

8-10 sprigs dills

2 lbs. Kirby cucumbers cut into spears

1/2 tsp. black peppercorns

1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes

1/2 tsp. mustard seeds

2 0r 3 glass jars with lids

Combine first 3 ingredients in a pitcher and stir well. Place several sprigs of dill in the bottom of each glass jar.  Pack jars with cucumber spears; pack as tightly as possible without squishing the spears.  

Top the cucumbers with minced garlic

Mix the peppercorns, mustard seeds, and red pepper flakes together, add the spice blend to the pickle jars. Give the water, salt, vinegar mixture another stir; then pour over the cucumbers.  Fill the jars up to the very top, put the lids on, and give them a good shake.  Now put them into the refrigerator for 3-7 days.  

Voila!  Trust me on this, these pickles will amaze you.  The simplicity, the crunchiness, they are delicious!  

P.S. I also make non-edible flying pickles, available in my ETSY shop. (:

xo Dinah!