We love pickles and make them out of a lot of our cucumbers and hot peppers.like Cascabellas and Jalapenos and other Wax Peppers. Pickled peppers are delicious, we like to leave out the sugar and use hot peppers for a nice vinegary punch of heat and flavor anytime we feel like a snack. And spicy cucumber pickles are another perfect snack or side or topper for a sandwich or burger! If you don't have a huge harvest, make refrigerator pickles which are crunchier and they keep in the fridge for a couple months. Don't worry, they won't even last that long!! Or if you have enough to can, you can preserve them in a water bath and store in a cool dry location for year-round use. Check out all of our favorite pickle recipes below.
Our Favorite Pickle Recipes:
Spicy Refrigerator Pickles Recipe
Spicy Pickles Recipe (canning option)
Copycat Mezzetta Hot Pepper Recipe
Of course you can make any of these recipes without hot peppers, but we pretty much like all of our pickles spicy!
Storing Cucumbers for Pickling:
If you want to can pickles, it's good to get enough to make 5-6 jars or more so it's worth boiling all that water! :) But sometimes they all aren't ready at once. You may want to pick a few that are getting to be the desired size and store them. We like to store them in glass container in the fridge. Find our advice for storing cucumbers for a few days so they are as fresh as possible when you pickle them in this post:
How to store cucumbers until you have enough to pickle »
Happy growing an pickling!
