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Finally. Had to kill the app and restart it to post a picture or two.
 
Brussels and green beans started November 15th. Just jarred today, finally tender.

Last pick is from pickled peppers and fermented pepper paste from last summer's garden. I'm including the pic because the peppers finnished fermenting about November and I used that lacto-culture to kick-start this fermentation. No vinegar, but I would swear I used it. Has a delightfully sour flavor and sting from the peppers.
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Fun with fermentations! We have a bunch going right now. These were the "starters" we did a little over a month ago. Red/green cabbage kraut, one jar of pineapple chunks and one with pineapple rind. The last two will eventually become pineapple vinegar - they have to ferment first, then be strained out and the liquid put into a jar with a bit of our vinegar mother to turn into vinegar.

We probably have 8 different vinegar starts going, from our homebrewed ales to sake and wines. That's KOTC's domain. I have cucumber pickles, cauliflower, green beans, golden beets, and more all fermenting. We already ate a whole jar of the dilly garlic green beans, which are excellent! It really is fun and easy to ferment veggies and stuff and yep, they taste like you pickled them in vinegar but it's all just the lacto fermentation.

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It seems crazy that there is that much lacto left on washed veggies to completely ferment these in 5 days!

We don't wash per se - we rinse in filtered water just to make sure there is no dirt/extraneous materials left on them. We buy organic for fermenting too, to get as much "good stuff" as we can get on them!
 
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Good excuse to eat something with a Mexican flair - we're gonna have taco salads made with taco-seasoned browned ground venison, fresh baby lettuces, Hatch chile guacamole, green onions, black olives, shredded cheese, whatever else I find that looks good. Oh yeah some of our home-fermented sliced radishes too! Will try to remember to get a picture later.

Anyone else doing Mexican-inspired meals today?
 
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Good excuse to eat something with a Mexican flair - we're gonna have taco salads made with taco-seasoned browned ground venison, fresh baby lettuces, Hatch chile guacamole, green onions, black olives, shredded cheese, whatever else I find that looks good. Oh yeah some of our home-fermented sliced radishes too! Will try to remember to get a picture later.

Anyone else doing Mexican-inspired meals today?
We're going to do something along similar lines, Mexican style stuffed peppers. Making them with red bell peppers, ground chicken flavored with taco seasoning, hatch chilis, onion, black olives, and shredded cheese.
 
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Good excuse to eat something with a Mexican flair - we're gonna have taco salads made with taco-seasoned browned ground venison, fresh baby lettuces, Hatch chile guacamole, green onions, black olives, shredded cheese, whatever else I find that looks good. Oh yeah some of our home-fermented sliced radishes too! Will try to remember to get a picture later.

Anyone else doing Mexican-inspired meals today?
Breakfast burrito is about as close a I'm getting today.

Attempting diy Big Mac for dinner tonight. Wife had her "every few year" crave for McD's, but always gets fast food poops and a belly ache followed by fast-food regret.

Every few years I get a craving for fast food. Sometimes the commercials make their food actually look good. Then I feel sad after eating as it usually is less than satisfying as compared to a good burger.
 
Have you seen this version? Maybe some hints in there for you.


I haven't. I just paid attention to a mcd add to see what a big mac looks like. I dont think I've set foot in McDonald's since 2007 at midnight at a gas station. Probably 2002 since my last big mac. I couldn't remember what the damn things even look like besides 2-patty 3-bun and sesame seeds.

I have local grass-fed beef, local cheddar, making aioli this morning to make special sauce (I don't use mayo often enough to keep in stock). Bought sesame kaiser rolls from a local bakery. Pickles and shredded iceberg. Seems simple enough.

Also making fries, sweet potato for mrs s-met and regular russet for me. I know sweet potato isn't McD's menu (i dont think); but neither is a delicious burger.
 
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