Dill Pickles

Dill Pickles
5 c water
1 c white vinegar
1/2 c sugar
3 cloves garlic, smashed and peeled

6 sprigs baby dill, or 1 dill flower
1 T brown mustard seeds
1" chopped cayenne pepper
3 small cucumbers, cut into spears

Boil first 4 ingredients, let cool. Put other ingredients in a medium jar, pour liquid over. Refrigerate, ready in 5 days.

Banana Apple Muffins

You may have never had these before. That is because I just made them up.

Banana Apple Muffins
1 1/2 c flour
1/2 t baking soda
1/4 t baking powder
1/2 t coarse salt
2 t ground cinnamon
1/4 t ground nutmeg
dash ground cloves
1/2 t grated orange peel
1 c brown sugar

1/2 c vegetable oil
1 egg
1 1/2 t vanilla
3 ripe bananas, peeled

1 apple, peeled and diced

Use a mixer and mix dry ingredients together, then add and mix wet ingredients and bananas. Mix in apples by hand. Spoon into greased muffin pan. Bake 350, 18-24min.

Pickles

Our very wonky and strangely colored(greenish/yellowish/orange tinged) cucumbers are starting to finally produce! And so I have started with 2 different batches of refrigerator pickles...

Yellow Pickles
2-3 sliced cucumbers
1 sliced onion
1 1/2 c white vinegar
1/2 c sugar
3/4 t sea salt
1/2 t mustard seeds
1/2 t celery seeds
1/2 t ground turmeric
1/4 t ground red pepper
1/2 mixed peppercorns
4 cloves garlic, minced

Layer cucumbers then onion in large jar. Boil remaining ingredients, 1min. Pour into jar.


Pink Pickles
2-3 cucumbers, sliced
1 onion, sliced
2 c sugar
1 c red wine vinegar
1 T celery seed
1 T pickling salt

Layer cucumbers then onion in large jar. Boil remaining ingredients, 1min. Pour into jar.