Fermented pickles and sauerkraut

After 1 day

After 2 days

After 3 days

 

Pickles jar burping 16 seconds

Sauerkraut jar burping, 16 seconds.



After 4 days, on the 5th day. From Friday to Tuesday.

Conclusion: 

It worked. But I don't like the taste of either. 

The pickles are not firm and crunchy, they're floppy. They're not salty but they're over-spiced, and weirdly so. I tasted on an empty stomach. The ginger is not prevalent nor is the garlic, the bay and spices are not pleasing together and intensified. The dill is not outstanding. I don't know how to correct flavor. I wish they were sweet. 

I'll probably add sugar water. I don't want strong-tasting weird pickles. 

The sauerkraut is crunchy, it squeaks when it's chewed. Surprisingly, with a single jalapeño for an entire green cabbage, it's hot as h-e-double fire sticks. It burns my mouth off, hotter than kimchi. 

I'll drain them and strain out the spice seeds and dill and ginger and garlic, reserve the fermented liquid, and add sugar-water to all of it and refrigerate and see if that improves the flavor to suit me.

I'm happy with this experiment. I'll eat the pickles and sauerkraut, and I learned how this weirdly affects spices unpredictably. And I think to an extent I can correct the flavor while retaining its probiotic benefits. 

I like sweet things.

I like sour things. 

I like sweet/sour things.

But I do not like weirdly confused overly-spiced things, or things that are too hot. 

Experiment success.

Flavor fail.

pork tenderloin, fruit

fruit and cream

The governmental official with the electronic voice and sounding very much like a robot seized control of televised communications and interfered with programming across channels with the most obnoxious buzzer imaginable, the sound early modems made, and repeated with nothing than that. Then delivered a warning for two adjacent counties.

Tornado warning.

Then off finally with the same obnoxious buzzer.

Then again with the incredibly annoying obnoxious buzzer sound repeated. 

Severe thunderstorm warning.

Then off again finallywith the same obnoxious buzzer.

Then again with the incredibly annoying obnoxious buzzer sound repeated. 

Extreme hail warning.

Then off again finally with the same obnoxious buzzer.

Then again with the incredibly annoying obnoxious buzzer sound repeated. 

High wind warning.

Then off again finally with the same obnoxious buzzer.

Then again with the incredibly annoying obnoxious buzzer sound repeated. 

Flash flood warning.

Then off again finally with the same obnoxious buzzer.

*click*

He's really starting to piss me off. 

There will be no television today.

I can see for myself there is weather. We all can. 

If by now we cannot see weather for ourselves when it builds up and smacks us right in the face, and gorgeously as shown by this photo, then what good is weather bureaucrat breaking though our tvs going to do? 

I mentioned to a friend how seriously annoying this is, how intrusive, how one-size-fits-all, how buttinsky it is, how utterly useless and how obnoxious  it is, but my friend is all for it. He just l-o-o-o-v-e-s him government intrusion. He cheers it. In his world this is what government is for. To lead you by the hand through the weather. He imagines the population quite dull. So we can put our automobiles in the garage so they don't get hailed on or stay off the roads so we don't get stuck in water, or bring our dogs inside so they don't suffer high wind. So we know where to hide if a tornado should strike, reschedule our hang gliding lessons. 

They do this every time it rains. 

And having everyone no matter how remote their own county be inconvenienced, be intruded upon, be assaulted with the amazingly obnoxious buzzer is small price to pay for good government. Being reminded your government can do whatever it darn well likes, and your tv and your tv service really belongs to them. That's what my friend likes. 

light rye bread, honey-ham sandwich

This bread with 1/6 rye flour and 2/3 milk failed to rise to the top of the Pullman pan. 

This is the 2nd loaf made in the smaller 9" Pullman pan and I've experienced both catastrophes possible, over-proofing and under-proofing. The first makes the lid difficult to slide off, I had to use a hammer at 2:00 am, and this second loaf didn't fill the pan to form square-shapped slices. 

That's okay. It compensates by being delicious. They both did.

The very light rye, 1/6 the flour, plus 2/3 milk and sugar makes a fine bread, while raspberry jam and mustard make an excellent flavor combination spread. The ham itself is rather secondary for flavor, it's the faintly rye bread and sweet/tart combination spread that causes this sandwich rise above its sandwich peers. The little thing, shouting like that, unseemly but adorable. Actually, the filling could be turkey, chicken, hamburger, sausage, kielbasa, bacon, bologna, tomato, anything, and it would still have this otherworldly preternatural signature effect so gorgeous it makes your head spin with glee.  

If stone mustard and fruit preserves sounds too weird for you, I suggest, TRY IT! Already.

You'll like it. It's the same thing as mostarda di frutta. 

You'll experience epiphany.

tuna, daikon, rice