Pickling, pickling, and more pickling!!!

Our garden is starting to really produce some beautiful vegetables! We are loving working as a family to harvest this goodness. So far we have had an abundance of cucumbers and green beans. We all  LOVE pickles so of course we decided that we needed to make pickles. I have never made them before, so was VERY impressed when they turned out so delicious! We made dill sliced or hamburger pickles and bread and butter. We also pickled some green beans and they are fantastic too!!! Today, when finishing up the bread and butter, we had some left over "juice" so decided to throw some squash in and they too turned out very good. I guess I found out that you can really do whatever you want with this "pickling" thing.


First you have to wash and slice the cucumbers. I have a Julienne Slicer which made the job super quick!

Of course with the beans you snap and wash. You want to keep the long length.

This was the bread and butter pickles cooking. Smells wonderful while cooking too!

Our finished product.......hamburger pickles and dill green beans!

 ......................bread and butter pickles and squash!

There are hundreds of recipes online for pickling or making pickles. You really just have to decide what kind you want and how you would like to prepare. Some are "no boil" recipes, and some you use the boiling water bath to seal the jars. We chose to "can" or seal the jars since we are hoping to put them away to last us into the winter months. With the other method, they should keep for about 6 months in the refrigerator.

Oh and I tip I feel necessary to post is that the turmeric (in the bread & butter pickles) will stain your kitchen counter and or any other kitchen utensils. Very good to know!