Okay, first of all, a quick check-in. Mama went to Total Wine and spent way too much money. But she brought home some beautiful beer - and a bottle of whiskey. Some of it has been drank already, my bad, but I couldn't wait to dig into the goods. I had to use panorama mode on my camera to capture this all, y'all.


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I got my 1 quart jars in yesterday so today I decided to get another batch of hot sauce going. I would really like to give some of these away as Christmas gifts which means I'm running out of time; I want to ferment them for 3 weeks. You could do less, but you could most certainly do more. The hot sauce will continue to ferment after it's bottled, ( Read more... )

I decided to make pickles and hot sauce today. Not like, together, but one batch of pickles and one batch of hot sauce. The pickles will not ferment; they'll just be refrigerated for a couple of days to let the pickles absorb the vinegar, garlic, salt and spices. The hot sauce will ferment for 3 weeks. After 3 weeks I will puree the peppers, strain ( Read more... )