Thursday, August 4, 2011

Day off of Zucchini

So after 6 days I needed a little break and instead of having so many zucchinis I now have a ton of cucumbers.......so since I am not a canner, or bottler I wanted to do something with these that was easy.   Again I do have a two year old and so my time is limited......
I found a recipe for refrigerator pickles......and here they are
7 cups of cucumbers peeled (I left them on) cut up any way you want to
1 teaspoon salt
1 - 2 cups of sugar ( add 1 cup then taste it and you can add more if not sweet enough)
1 cup of chopped up onion
1 cup of red peppers (optional)
1 cup cider vinegar
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon of caraway seeds/ dill seeds (optional, this is what I did)
Mix the cucumbers in the salt and let sit for an hour.
Then mix teh sugar onions, red peppers, vinegar, seasonings together (here taste you might want more sugar).
Pour on top of cucumbers, add lid and put into the refrigerator and in 3 hours you can eat them.  They do taste better when they have sat longer.....You can keep them up to 3 weeks, we add more cucumbers as we go.....so easy and very tastey.

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