Just a Smidgen » Cucumbers https://justasmidgen.com ..a lifestyle blog filled with recipes, photography, poems, and DIY xo Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:35:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 The Art of Dill Pickle https://justasmidgen.com/2013/10/07/art-dill-pickle/ https://justasmidgen.com/2013/10/07/art-dill-pickle/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:22:45 +0000 https://justasmidgen.com/?p=16834 My earliest memories of anything “pickled”.. were the sparkling gem jars that lined our basement shelves at Claret Street  in Charleswood Heights. Mom’s pickles were more varied than my simple dills I’ve posted here. She’d have mustards with whole small sweet onions.. jams along with the Dills. My first attempt at pickling dills last summer […]

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]]> https://justasmidgen.com/2013/10/07/art-dill-pickle/feed/ 21 The Art of Pickle https://justasmidgen.com/2012/08/18/the-art-of-pickle/ https://justasmidgen.com/2012/08/18/the-art-of-pickle/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:09:09 +0000 https://justasmidgen.com/?p=9124 A trip to the market yielded these…and these one of these a bouquet of weeds and a bowl of spices plopped into jars while a brine simmered pickles wedged and jostled for space then brine bathed and simmered finally plucked out… 12 little jar in two straight lines they left the brine at half past […]

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