Giardiniera Version Next
Way back on Monday, November 26, 2018, was the written recipe for Homemade Giardiniera. Let's just say, that didn't last long. Doing it again, with a few modifications. Start here ...
https://hobbytreat.blogspot.com/2018/11/homemade-giardiniera.html
The mods of April 1, 2019 (not an April Fool's joke, honest !!)
Started with the OG recipe. To that, I added a can of hearts of palm, because I wanted to. In the post-rinse fill up the bowl phase, in went a jar of roasted red peppers. Mostly, to get them out of the pantry, where they were because we forgot why we bought them in the first place.
Spice changes included: used 2 Serrano peppers, rather than one long hot pepper; doubled the dry spice mix, partly because the salt soaked veg just didn't taste salty enough; replaced the dried minced garlic with granulated garlic. I like the stuff when I'm too lazy to peel and dice and smash raw garlic, it is sold by the megaton at PriceRite, and it doesn't solidify like garlic powder.
I'd used up all the hot pepper vinegar, and don't want to use pantry space for more. Part of the reason to double the dry spice mix. I could have used dragon nails in the bottom of the bottles, or in the hot spice brine. But, I didn't.
The jars seemed rather less filled this time.
Can't wait for them to cure !!
The mods of December 10, 2018
The jalapenos and long hot pepper were the biggest ones easily at hand. The fennel bulb was on the bigger side as well. A zucchini was added into the veg mix. All of which crowded out some of the cauliflower. Used maybe 1/3 plus of the head. Tried to cut all the veg pieces just a bit bigger.
Rather than filling the veg bowl with water in the kitchen, I brought it out to the drive in cooler, and filled it there. Saved half the full bowl trip. Weighted down the heavy plate as well, but cannot tell any difference as of yet.
Made the spice liquid the same way, but simply filtered out the solids thru a chinois strainer. Worked just fine.
Needed an empty dill pickle jar, so I transplanted most of what was in the opened pickle jar, into an almost empty tamed jalapeno jar. Hot pickles !! Used the balance - maybe 6-7 pickles - in this batch.
Finally used up all the coriander seed, and all the dried minced garlic. At long last ...
Very carefully measured in the hot vinegar. Tasted a carrot piece, before the saltwater rinse off, and it was Hot. These should be quite tasty.
The jars seemed slightly fuller this time. May have been the cut of the veg, slightly more of them, or maybe I just didn't press them so hard. Dunno, but they all fit.
Time will tell ...
https://hobbytreat.blogspot.com/2018/11/homemade-giardiniera.html
The mods of April 1, 2019 (not an April Fool's joke, honest !!)
Started with the OG recipe. To that, I added a can of hearts of palm, because I wanted to. In the post-rinse fill up the bowl phase, in went a jar of roasted red peppers. Mostly, to get them out of the pantry, where they were because we forgot why we bought them in the first place.
Spice changes included: used 2 Serrano peppers, rather than one long hot pepper; doubled the dry spice mix, partly because the salt soaked veg just didn't taste salty enough; replaced the dried minced garlic with granulated garlic. I like the stuff when I'm too lazy to peel and dice and smash raw garlic, it is sold by the megaton at PriceRite, and it doesn't solidify like garlic powder.
I'd used up all the hot pepper vinegar, and don't want to use pantry space for more. Part of the reason to double the dry spice mix. I could have used dragon nails in the bottom of the bottles, or in the hot spice brine. But, I didn't.
The jars seemed rather less filled this time.
Can't wait for them to cure !!
The mods of December 10, 2018
The jalapenos and long hot pepper were the biggest ones easily at hand. The fennel bulb was on the bigger side as well. A zucchini was added into the veg mix. All of which crowded out some of the cauliflower. Used maybe 1/3 plus of the head. Tried to cut all the veg pieces just a bit bigger.
Rather than filling the veg bowl with water in the kitchen, I brought it out to the drive in cooler, and filled it there. Saved half the full bowl trip. Weighted down the heavy plate as well, but cannot tell any difference as of yet.
Made the spice liquid the same way, but simply filtered out the solids thru a chinois strainer. Worked just fine.
Needed an empty dill pickle jar, so I transplanted most of what was in the opened pickle jar, into an almost empty tamed jalapeno jar. Hot pickles !! Used the balance - maybe 6-7 pickles - in this batch.
Finally used up all the coriander seed, and all the dried minced garlic. At long last ...
Very carefully measured in the hot vinegar. Tasted a carrot piece, before the saltwater rinse off, and it was Hot. These should be quite tasty.
The jars seemed slightly fuller this time. May have been the cut of the veg, slightly more of them, or maybe I just didn't press them so hard. Dunno, but they all fit.
Time will tell ...
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