Any expert picklers out there? Anyone with the requisite taste for preserved walnuts? I’m in need of serious encouragement. For weeks I have been living with the Mr’s latest venture – a vat of green walnuts soaking in their salty brine. With the post-Christmas lazy days, no-one-out-of-jim-jams-for-24-hours hibernation going on, the Mr deemed it walnut drying time.
Ugh. Be grateful I still haven’t worked out how to blog a smell. It’s a nasty, cloying stench – sweet, with a nasty bitter aftertaste – one you can actually (ok, almost) taste. Like mangoes – with the obvious mangoes-are-delicious difference. Apparently I just need to wait until these delicacies are black and withered and then I get to help demonstrate our ‘try anything once’ policy for the anklebiters. Usually that would be no issue – I happily try most anything, including boiled tripe, (so far the only experience requiring light therapy). This time I’ll be wearing one of these:
I’m counting on unmitigated nasal pain to see me through the whole nasty sensory experience.
PS. After eating a pickled walnut and deeming it delicious, I have agreed to eat everyones’ hat.
PPS. Which guarantees an entirely unpalatable experience either way.
PPPS. I hope your festive celebrations were wonderful and there are long, lazy, free-from-pickled-walnut days to while away...
20 comments:
I'm generally a try anything kind of gal, but I'd definitely need a clothespin for that.
i hope good o'l olfactory fatigue goes to your rescue! happy new year Tania! All the best for a sparkling new year!
Hmmmmmmm.... sounds..... interesting...
Pickled walnuts, boiled tripe... sounds like fun at your house! ;)
I did manage to make it down the street xmas eve sweets, so you have a whole $17.50 with which to buy fresh mints if required...
A ha! I wondered about the green pickled walnuts. My neighbour has a tree and each year we all say we are going to pick them green as a collective and then pickle them. For three years though we've let the cockies get them before we bothered doing anything about it. I think we might be onto something there ...
I did not know you could pickle walnuts....i have no desire to taste them... they just sounds awful! Are they nice though?? reallyy? what do they taste like???
Pickled walnuts are , indeed , disgusting and the production of them sounds best left to some factory far , far away .
But tripe as in Callos a la Madrileña ? The perfect winter warmer .... though the assembled ingredients do look a little odd .
Sonata
I have a delicate digestion and no children, thereby being excused from a)trying anything potentially painful or b)setting a good example. In this instance, I deem myself fortunate!
Make an edible, yummy, hat - simples!
Cheers,
AJ
Oh we have a walnut tree that gets eaten up by the birds so last year my partner pickled a pot - some still there - good with cheese but not really my cup of tea! Prefer a real walnut but the birds deny me again and again!
Hmm I can't even imagine really...
I really can't imagine how pickled walnuts would taste. I believe you when you say they are delicious though, so maybe I am going to try it myself some day.
Hope you had a lovely Christmas, Tania!
It sounds like an interesting project and I will look forward to your idea once you taste them. Too bad it has a nasty smell now.
Yikes! Who new you could even pickle walnuts!
ps - the teatowel arrived - love it! Thanks x
a pickled walnut sounds interesting but I have no idea if it tastes interesting.
don't you hate yourself when you to life to the rules you set for your kids? can we start a blog post there? I can make a list myself...will think it over.
ps. were you having a good x'mas?
eb xx
would be so cool, if you coul blog a smell..guess I would bake cake all day,lol
T
Come on ya big girl... pickled walnuts are a winner - especially when teamed with nice cheese and crisp wine. Just remember good old Dr. Seuss and 'Green Eggs and Ham'. I would eat them here or there, I would eat them anywhere.
W
I've put off reading this for ages because the mere title turned my stomach. Hope life eventually improves for you. LOL Cherrie
The tea towels arrived and I am in tea towel heaven. Thank you so much.
G
Giggled at your ‘try anything once’ policy and impressed that you followed it. I'm still not sold!
I don't think that you area allowed to use the words "tripe" and "appealing" in the same sentence. Someone forbade it once...a long time ago...really...something about "misleading"...
Hi Tania,
I received your gorgeous tea towels and am now having second thoughts about actually giving one away! Why oh why did I tell her I was going to give her one? Ahhh well.
I have posted a pic on my blog. Thanks again!
:) Christina
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