Pickle Nostalgia and A Food Gal Giveaway with Ball Canning Recipe

Pickling my way to savored When I was a kid growing up in my parents’ San Francisco home, there were two refrigerators — the main one in the kitchen, and an auxiliary one downstairs in the It was the latter one that was filled with extra provisions — tubs of tofu, cartons of orange juice, and big glass jars of My Mom’s She would save big glass jars and reuse them, packing them with cauliflower florets, slices of carrots, and stems of mustard greens. She’d pour in hot white vinegar diluted with a little water and mixed with a few mustard seeds, bay leaves and peppercorns, before capping the jars, and storing them in that As the days and weeks went on, we’d enjoy the pickles of her labor.…