Pickles!

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So, our neighbor and my sister both gifted us with cucumbers ON THE SAME DAY.  These were the really long kind, too.  We were drowning in cucumbers.

So I thought, well, why not make pickles? It was something I'd seen done, and youtube is a font of knowledge these days.

They came out GREAT.  But as I never follow directions I need to write down what I did so I can do it again.

First, I sliced up two enormous cucumbers into disks.

Then I mixed brine:

1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup white vinegar
3 cups water
one splorsh of soy sauce
4 tablespoons of salt

After it boiled, I tasted it, and it was a wee too vinegar so to cut that down I added;
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons old bay seasoning
A hefty dash of dill weed
two diced garlic cloves

I then let that simmer while I packed two soup tubs with cucumber slices, two sliced raw garlic cloves (per tub) and about 2 tablespoons of dill weed (per tub) and a dash of garlic-pepper.

Then I poured the hot brine over it all, filling the tubs to the brim. Sealing them caused spill-over, but that's what I wanted for an airtight seal.

Let them cool on the counter, pop 'em in the fridge, three days later: PICKLETOPIA.