April 2022 – Farcyde's Stuff

Pickles Taste Test

April 30, 2022 farcyde

After 4½ days in the fridge I went to try the pickles I made last week. Summary: Really not bad at all, but of course improvements are possible.

Asparagus and onions are perfectly ok; Crunchy, fresh and bright. A great addition to “Brotzeit”! I won’t do it again with green onions though, they became rather mushy and even got a little brown. Absolutely edible but not very appealing.

Also, I’ll try some more sugar next time since that distilled white vinegar is very acidic and needs to be balanced out a little more.

Cream of Green Asparagus Soup Recipe

I tried making pickles for the first time lately, among else using asparagus as a vegetable. Since I didn’t want to throw away the trimmings I made cream of asparagus soup. Not complicated, not time consuming and tasty.

Basic Vegetable Pickling Recipe

April 26, 2022 farcyde

I wanted to try pickling, so I decided to give it a try on the weekend, but starting with only small batches. My beloved aunt Inge would vividly oppose to the term “pickling” (she’s an institution on home grown greens as well as food-preservation and she’s some kind of an old-style, longtime proficient german homesteader, not the american style 🙂 ). But I’ll try anyway.

April 26, 2022 farcyde

There’s a sh*tload of videos online from people making oven roasted garlic and using it for garlic bread, etc. I wanted to try that too eventually – and boy, is that amazing! The whole house smelled of garlic and I don’t want to know how *I* smelled afterwards 🙂 This is luscious, delicious and by the way absolutely easy to make. Do try this if you haven’t already.

Wind Egg or “Cock’s Egg” Explained

April 6, 2022 farcyde

Priscilla laid a so-called wind egg the last days, the first one I ever even saw in real life. It’s a complete egg, but with only a membrane, thus just missing a calcium shell. They were called cock’s eggs traditionally since it was believed they were laid by cocks in former times.

Here’s wikipedia’s information on this (german language, since unfortunately the english version isn’t worth a dime).

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Pickles Taste Test

Cream of Green Asparagus Soup Recipe

Basic Vegetable Pickling Recipe

Roasted Garlic Recipe

Wind Egg or “Cock’s Egg” Explained

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