We’ve had a lot of cucumbers this year, but not from Rose-colored-glasses-firmly-planted Señora Weinhaus. She is truly the definition of an optimist. Just about every year since I have known her she has attempted to grow vegetables and herbs in the garden on the side of the garage. She has had fair success with the herbs, but just about every year the deer get the vegetables. She has tried all sort of things to keep them out. Right now we have a Mission Impossible web of fishing line around the garden. The deer have still managed to sate their appetites. If it is not the deer then it is rabbits. However, the rabbit population seems to go in cycles. Some years you see many, and other years they are as rare as Yoda using common syntax. Indubitably, spring will roll around and she will be trying again.
Question became what to do with all the cucumbers we had “shared” with us. I found a recipe Continue reading “Really, Really Good Refrigerator Pickles”