Nov 28 2014
The only thing I hate about posting this is you can’t taste these wonderful pickles and I don’t have the recipe to share. Sandman gave me a sample of them and I told him to get me a jar the next time he got some. He gets them from a local lady and she won’t give out the recipe.
When my wife drove through his carry out to get supper the other night he gave her a quart of the pickles and said to tell me Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks Sandman, love those pickles. They are hot, bread and butter pickles and the crispiest ones I have ever eaten. I don’t know what her secret is but have read that adding grape leaves or anything high in tannins will make them crispy.
I had a 3 lb. of smoked ham left from Thanksgiving so I sliced that up and in the crockpot to heat up. I had about a third of a small head of cabbage to use so I chopped and fried it with onions in some butter and added some cooked spaetzel to brown a little.
We had some marbled rye bread for ham sandwiches along with the cabbage and spaetzel. Tasted pretty good especially those pickles on my sandwich!
The pickles
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Cabbage and spaetzel
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My supper
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Smokin Don