Pickles

I just haven't made any remoulade lately.

But I just made pickles.

I bought some surprise bags of veggies from a graduate student. What I got included tomatoes, bitter melon, cilantro, sun-dried tomatoes, chives, cucumbers, and dill. It was serendipitous because I had just come across a recipe for Claussen-style refrigerator pickles, and we don't grow dill.

So this is my experiment: only two jars to see how it goes.

I went through a canning phase back a few decades ago. (I'm not kidding; it was in the late seventies.) I used a pressure canner and canned tomatoes, soups, and all kinds of stuff. I've started thinking about canning again because I just read a recipe in the latest Saveur about home-canned tuna, canned in olive oil. That would make a heck of a salade nicoise. But, of course, getting tuna here in Teenytown would be the challenge.

Our garden this year is a disaster, and I confess that I did absolutely nothing to contribute to its success. But now, maybe because it actually rained this morning, I'm thinking about being a better garden-doobie and doing some work for next year's garden once it gets cooler.

This is a dull post--but I'm a pretty dull gal these days. Dull but happy.