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Pickled eggs
Pickled eggs are a regional treat unappreciated by many otherwise redeemable connoisseurs from the flatlands. My wife and I relish them, our kids turn up their noses, and many other people ask “What?”
So here we go:
Using a gallon-size empty large glass pickle jar, I put in a can of sliced beets (plain, unsalted, if it can be found) with the red juice, 2-4 sliced onions of any color, thinly sliced rounds from 2-3 large carrots, and a dozen hard boiled, peeled eggs. Pickling solution is made to taste, usually a teaspoon of white sugar and a teaspoon of salt dissolved in a few ounces of warm water, dill, basil, and garlic to taste, about 8-12 ounces of apple vinegar, 1-2 ounces red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar, and top it off with warm water. Turn the sealed jar upside down and shake it for a minute.
Set it out on the kitchen counter for a few hours, and then refrigerate (or in the winter, put it in your cold mud room or outside enclosed porch, good natural refrigerators).
After a couple days, everything in that jar is begging to be eaten. After a week, it is a delicacy. We eat the eggs whole with the vegetables on the side, or I slice them up into salads that Viv and I eat for lunch.
Three cheers for Central Pennsylvania’s traditional foods!
Fall weather has its benefits
Cool fall weather has benefits: We sleep more comfortably at night, fewer bugs pester us, the lawn grows more slowly and requires less frequent visits with the mower.
Another benefit is that food left for several days inside a vehicle doesn’t go bad. For example, the half-gnawed apple that my son left in the back seat of the truck during a recent fishing trip wasn’t in too bad shape. After slicing off the gnarly chewed sides, I was able to have a healthy midnight snack of about 0.65% of a whole apple.
Thanks, Mother Nature!
Josh