{"id":11019,"date":"2013-07-07T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T03:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=11019"},"modified":"2016-10-13T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:04:15","slug":"in-season-hapa-kid-quick-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/in-season-hapa-kid-quick-pickles\/","title":{"rendered":"In Season: Hapa Kid Quick Pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many times have you moved as an adult? Me, 11 times. It\u2019s never fun, and it gets worse, the older you get. Once, early on when I moved from LA to the Bay Area, I shipped a bunch of stuff by mail. Moving by mail is not a great idea. Unless you want to buy all new stuff. Then finally there comes a time when there\u2019s no more rounding up friends with promises of beer and pizza. You just bite the bullet and hire movers. After 11 moves, I can\u2019t believe some of the things that have made the trek. I\u2019ve been looking for a peach pit ring that my grandpa carved, at least that\u2019s how I remember it. I’m convinced I have it somewhere. And I can\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n

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What I do<\/em> have is my German Club pin, some itty-bitty dollhouse pottery dishes my auntie brought me from Mexico, a high-school era blue t-shirt from Miller\u2019s Outpost and a macaroni necklace on yarn circa 1978. I was all set to show you the peach pit ring and talk about the tree in my grandparents backyard that only ever ponied up two or three peaches during my childhood — I wouldn’t call it the Giving Tree. But that story will have to wait until another day, because after 11 moves, I can\u2019t find that ring.<\/p>\n

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So instead of peaches, pickles. Fitting, I think. I\u2019m tiptoeing into food in jars. I can\u2019t quite call it canning yet, because I\u2019m waiting for prime raspberry season, which should be hitting in the next few weeks. This weekend was the first time I\u2019d seen Kirby cucumbers at the market, so I picked up a half dozen to make some quick pickles.<\/p>\n

Since I\u2019m alone in this house in my appreciation for dill pickles, using the general guidelines in this Serious Eats piece on How to Quick Pickle<\/a>, I worked up what I’ll call Hapa Kid Pickles — half Asian with rice vinegar and half hakujin<\/em> with traditional pickling spices and a hit of red pepper flakes. There’s no fermentation here, so what results is a slightly sweet pickle, yet it’s nothing like the bread-and-butter variety, with some nice crunch. Half a teaspoon red pepper flakes was a bit light for my taste, so double it if you like a spicy pickle.<\/p>\n

I’ll let you know if I find that ring.<\/p>\n\t\r\n\t

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