Pickles and Experimental Shrubs

[rkimedes]

A couple of weeks ago, I was cold and damp and grumpy.  I sent a mail around to the womenfolk declaring that it was time for an excursion to the Olympus Spa.  We homed in on a plan for two weeks from then and then tabled it.  When the day in question rolled around, it was so nice out that it'd have been a shame to spend it in an indoor hot tub, so

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Azucar morena

[scubaotter]

You realize that in Spanish this means, literally, brown sugar, right? Are you tryin' ta make yer ingredients sound all fancy-like agin? ;-)

No exaggeration: Autumn shrubs FTW. Thank you for letting me be one of your test monkeys. And please add me to your holiday gift list.

Re: Azucar morena

[rkimedes]

It's actually sort of a Mexican version of turbinado raw sugar. I was reading a little bit about the environmental impact of sugar, the processing in particular, and I decided to see if unrefined sugar would satisfy my cooking needs. Azucar (generically) is supposed to be the lightest flavor of the raw sugars, so I got some from AmazonFresh. I only mentioned it in case someone wanted to try it with white sugar and found that the hint of caramel was somehow important :-)

[incandragon]

I made a strawberry/basil shrub, and steeped it three days (outside of the refrigerator, probably the tragic flaw). I figured because it was in vinegar, that was safe. But the bottom of the jar is now cloudy, possibly fuzzy. Not really happy about that.

[cooklocal]

And next time I'll make other people do more of the work!