Part 1: Pickling Spice Guy and I spent most of our Sunday procuring, preparing and cooking a dinner that would have been easy to go out for - cheeseburgers and fries - but was so satisfying and delicious to make for ourselves. So we start with the pickling spice.  You can buy this pre-made, but we decided to make it ourselves since we had most of the ingredients already.  We needed it for our homemade ketchup, but we also plan to make our own pickles later in the week. Pickling spice is basically a ton of really flavorful herbs, seeds and spices.  We made ours using a recipe from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, and we basically threw the following ingredients into a jar and gave it a good shake: whole cinnamon sticks bay leaves dried hot red chiles mustard seeds allspice berries whole cloves black peppercorns coriander seeds cardamom seeds dill seeds

Part 1: Pickling Spice

Guy and I spent most of our Sunday procuring, preparing and cooking a dinner that would have been easy to go out for - cheeseburgers and fries - but was so satisfying and delicious to make for ourselves.

So we start with the pickling spice.  You can buy this pre-made, but we decided to make it ourselves since we had most of the ingredients already.  We needed it for our homemade ketchup, but we also plan to make our own pickles later in the week.

Pickling spice is basically a ton of really flavorful herbs, seeds and spices.  We made ours using a recipe from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, and we basically threw the following ingredients into a jar and gave it a good shake:

whole cinnamon sticks

bay leaves

dried hot red chiles

mustard seeds

allspice berries

whole cloves

black peppercorns

coriander seeds

cardamom seeds

dill seeds

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