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kakibell June 8 2010, 22:48:52 UTC
I love this entry! How long do the pickles keep?

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penguinparity June 9 2010, 01:09:40 UTC
General rule is about a year, although they're still edible for a bit longer they lose their peak flavor and nutritional value after that.

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sharksdontsleep June 9 2010, 21:33:26 UTC
Recipes!!!!! Thank you, bb! I will definitely post pics/recounting when I make this, because it looks so delicious. I hear you on relatives not giving out recipes. Mine don't write them down or use measurements - but that's how you know they're good - and you know there's no reproducing a real seasoned cast iron skillet with 10 years of fat baked into it.

Not sure if I'm ready for pickling. I did make yogurt earlier this year, with some pretty good results, but don't have the capacity to do pickling in my little apartment and sad electric stove. Have you pickled other things? I love pickles but would want to pickle, say, non-cucumber items if I tried it.

Oh, to your pronunciations. One of the funny things about the DC accent is we say 'aunt' like an abbreviation of "on it" and not like the insect. Maybe it's the southern influence on the city. And 'rural' as one syllable - heheheh, yes.

Thanks again!

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penguinparity June 9 2010, 21:53:33 UTC
You're welcome! Yes, I demand pics or it didn't happen!

That pickle recipe is a perfect example of family recipes, heh. It took us about 8 years to get a copy of it, those ingredients are approximations and the original directions are about 1/4 the words. We haven't pickled anything recently, but when I was a kid, we used to. I remember tomatoes, onions, and garlic specifically. Then there was my Grandmama's epic quest to find pickled lotus root that spanned 4 states and about 6 years. The most hilarious part was she'd spent the entire time talking it up to her Garden Club because she'd heard about it in China and when she finally found it, she thought it was disgusting.

One of the funny things about the DC accent is we say 'aunt' like an abbreviation of "on it" and not like the insect. Maybe it's the southern influence on the city. And 'rural' as one syllable - heheheh, yes.Yeah, that's exactly how I say aunt too, despite studying communication, I suck at describing sound (which is why I'm not a linguist, jokes about being ( ... )

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ey_up June 10 2010, 16:02:58 UTC
Recipes! And Southern ones at that!

Bang goes the diet...

Also, just realised that I follow you on Twitter but I haven't friended you here, you mind if I do?

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penguinparity June 15 2010, 06:09:57 UTC
yeah, Southern food is not very conducive to diets!

Feel free to friend me. :)

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oh_mcgee June 15 2010, 06:45:11 UTC
Okay, this recipe looks way better than the one I was going to use anyway. Soon as I find me crawfish tails + fat, this is so gettin' in my belleh. Thank you! And hi! *friends*

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penguinparity June 18 2010, 15:17:28 UTC
You're welcome, hope you enjoy the recipe! :D

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ethrosdemon June 18 2010, 00:43:11 UTC
Um, I got here from link hopping.

Are you from Pensacola? I know someone you know is. Oh, I see, no.

I am. Everyone I know has that cookbook. The picture of its cover was surprising to me in a random post on lj.

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penguinparity June 18 2010, 15:16:46 UTC
My step-father's family is from Pensacola. I think my Aunt or my Grandma sent us that book.

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