Fish Pickles
Hello friends,
The weather has been fairly rainy lately, to the point where we haven’t gone out much. The little one is a little stir crazy at points. One of the honest saving graces is a TV show that he’s obsessed with. He seems to have graduated from the Disney channel. Straight into the Discovery channel and animal planet. He’s completely obsessed with Abalone Wars. I think some people here are from Australia and know of the industry but it was new to us. He hunts in a makeshift ocean and is using his summer swim goggles every moment of the day lol.
In honor of his recent obsession, I decided to make some fun food. If you know what an abalone look like, it’s pretty disgusting honestly so I wasn’t going to do that at all. I did however make some cute fish with his berries. One of the local farm stores we frequent got a brand new shipment of organic strawberries. Scored a couple of those packages! They also had blueberries so naturally we scored some of that too. We try to instill a good diet of fresh fruits and veggies, he rarely eats anything out of a box except for pasta and organic Cheerios (off brand oat O’s, not the cheerio brand lol). When he saw the little fish strawberries, he was pumped! Went hunting for abalone for a couple hours after that lol gave me some peace!
In our spirit of making our own homemade stuff, one thing we’ve been waiting to do is make our own pickled stuff. There are a hell of a lot of recipes so it’s crazy to figure out which one to use but we have this one we tried. It was a ‘quick’ pickling of 5 days sitting time. Some were months! As @cmplxty knows, I’m not good at waiting for that kind of stuff!
The recipe had nice dill, mustard seeds, coriander, allspice, dill, bay leaves and peppercorns. The only thing we weren’t too thrilled about was the red pepper flakes. We love spicy stuff but a pickle recipe is not what we want that in. Maybe we will try it in another recipe, not sure.
The finished product, waiting to sit in the fridge to cure for a couple days. It’s looking pretty good! We busted out the mandolin to make some nice cucumber slices, wanted to make it look professional. We used some nice organic cucumbers we got in our Misfit Market box, so it’s been nice to use up what we’ve got instead of using boxed foods. Thankfully the little one loves dill pickle chips, sometimes he will snack on 15-20 chips at once, too much for me but he enjoys it!
One period of really nice weather was the other day where I took this picture. These plants aren’t ones I’m used to but boy were they thriving. With all of this restriction business, people haven’t been out to do things like kill ‘weeds’ (not a fan, these plants belong here not necessarily the monoculture grass) which I’m sure someone has complained about. The condo association will kill these poor things. I would try to research and harvest a few samples of stuff like this to see if it’s edible but as nice as that pond looks, I don’t trust the water. Some points it looks gross! I think it’s man made so that’s not too shocking.
Take care everyone and stay positive, things are on the mend for a lot of people!
I love me some pickled stuff. My mother in law makes some awesome pickled eggs (A shame her daughter didn't inherit her mum's love of cooking though. Lol)
I have a mate that lives off the grid in a place called Cowleds Landing about 4.5 hours north of the Capital city of Adelaide, right on the beach. All he does is fish and go for crabs. He does some awesome pickled crab and calamari (squid)...I'm fortunate enough to be the beneficiary of some whenever I go there or he comes down.
Nice post as always.
Cooking is definitely a thing one has to like to do sometimes! I was in the habit before I met my husband to eat lots of quick foods like pizza, French fries and cheese sandwiches. That destroyed my intestines and health though so I’ve come to enjoy cooking fresh, healthy foods and preparing what we can. Thankfully both of us like to cook and make things so it’s a good sharing instead of one sided.
Fish and meat gross me out, I stopped eating meat when I was 4 and haven't looked back. Only thing I would eat occasionally is ground beef in tacos. Haven't had any in 5 years. Never eaten any fish, never plan on it! :)
Thank you for checking it out!
Home cooked food is much better than take-out. We don't eat a lot of fast food really, preferring fresh produce....My wife doesn't enjoy cooking though; She does it, of course, but it's not a hobby.
Have a good weekend.
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