Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving! I had spent mine with my wifes family. It was pretty awesome!! I got to enjoy great food and great company! The best part... I didn't have to cook!!! But when I got back home, it was back to business in the kitchen. At my job, some coworkers deep fried some turkeys for the employees. Im not a big deep fried turkey kinda guy, but these were pretty damn GOOD! Any ways the guys frying the turkeys were going to just toss the leftover necks and bones.... Thats a no-no in my kitchen. So they were kind enough to give them to me to bring home to make some soup stock out of them. So as a return thank you for them cooking, I decided to make and can some turkey soup!
Also the end of November was the when my kosher dill pickles were done! To be honest I liked them. The only thing that I would of done different was to cut back on the pickling spice. My family didn't care for them as much, oh well you can't win them all I guess. Un fortunately not all the pickles survived the fermentation process. As a rule, use the smallest and most firm cucumbers for pickling. Some of my cucumbers were not so small or firm due to the poor selection at the market. So as a result about half of the pickles were mushy. The rest pickled quite nicely!
My sauerkraut is coming along nicely! At Thanksgiving someone had brought some homemade sauerkraut similar to the recipe Im using. Was better than any store bought sauerkraut I had ever had! So Im excited to see the end result of mine! But for now Im playing the waiting game.
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