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Pickle an egg like anything else. Vinegar and spices. Well, except you need to hard boil it first, then shell it. One popular pickled egg recipe uses beet juice too, so the egg white is dyed a nice red color.
 

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Yep, it's a hard boiled egg with its shell peeled off and it's just sitting in some brine for a few days.

I just looked into Morning Star Farms and it looks like they don't have their products in Canada (.. yet). Shame!
Maybe next time my brother or parents go over the border, I'll give them a list of stuff to pick up for me. Now that I live so much farther from the border, I seldom get to go with them anymore.
 

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Picked eggs! I reckon I would love them.
I'd definatly love the roast chicken and did someone say cheesecake????? Oh you're killing me.

I had the blandest of bland dinners. Mixed leaves with snow peas, roast chicken and balsamic dressing.
 

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Pickled eggs are delicious (if you like that sort of thing....and I do!). I pickle the beet juice, making it sweet and sour with bay leaves, sugar, and vinegar. Lots of sliced onions and the sliced red beets.Then I dump about a dozen hard-cooked eggs in the mix. And let it go for a day or so, to let all the flavors mingle. I used to make them primarily at Easter, when we had a lot of hard-cooked eggs for coloring. I still make them once or twice a year, usually for a big family picnic or something like that. They're really good! You have the red beets and the eggs and the onion.  Every once in a while, Rick will ask me to make a few pickled eggs; he likes them, too.

Ginger Steak Fried Rice is our dinner tonight. A new recipe that I want to try.
 
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I think it's going to be soup from the freezer tonight.
 

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 two banquet pot pies -- one turkey and the other peach. i had planned on making a fresh batch of potato cheese soup with ham, but after moving firewood and shoveling the driveway (a good 6 inches of snow) i decided not to "push" myself further. so i'll be making the soup tomorrow morning.
 

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Pickle an egg like anything else. Vinegar and spices. Well, except you need to hard boil it first, then shell it. One popular pickled egg recipe uses beet juice too, so the egg white is dyed a nice red color.
I've never pickled anything so how much vinegar per egg. What spices and what else and how long?
 

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Pickled eggs are delicious (if you like that sort of thing....and I do!). I pickle the beet juice, making it sweet and sour with bay leaves, sugar, and vinegar. Lots of sliced onions and the sliced red beets.Then I dump about a dozen hard-cooked eggs in the mix. And let it go for a day or so, to let all the flavors mingle. I used to make them primarily at Easter, when we had a lot of hard-cooked eggs for coloring. I still make them once or twice a year, usually for a big family picnic or something like that. They're really good! You have the red beets and the eggs and the onion.  Every once in a while, Rick will ask me to make a few pickled eggs; he likes them, too.

Ginger Steak Fried Rice is our dinner tonight. A new recipe that I want to try.
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Pamela could you give me the exact quantities of how you make your delicious sounding pickled eggs and what are they eaten with. Explain about the beetroot and juice please :-)
 

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@Stewball, since you've never made pickles I've cut this recipe down to make about a pint.

6 small beets - remove tops, leaving roots and 1-inch stem. Scrub, cover with boiling water and cook until tender. Drain, reserving about 1/3 cup of water. Remove skins. Slice beets.

Combine the cooking liquid, about 3/4 cup white vinegar, 1/2 tablespoon salt. Heat to boiling point, covered. Add sliced beets and 1 medium onion, sliced.

Simmer for 5 minutes.

Put in pint jar, cover. Let cool, refrigerate. Store for about 2 weeks to allow flavor to develop.

Two options - eat the beets and onion, then add shelled hard boiled eggs to the pickling liquid. Let sit for a week or so.

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Use a quart jar. Add shelled hard boiled eggs to the beets and onion when the pickling liquid is cooled to room temperature. Make sure the pickling liquid covers the eggs, beets, and onion.

Options: make a spiced pickle with a couple of cloves and a small piece of cinnamon stick, some black peppercorns and allspice. If the pickling liquid is too sharp for your taste you can add one or two teaspoons of sugar when preparing the pickling liquid.

Makes a nice hor d'oeuvre, good with cold meats.

If you make the recipe let me know how you like them.
 
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Pork loin fillets tonight with steamed asparagus, broccoli and pumpkin. The rest of the family will get some boiled potatoes.
 

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Trying to decide between Tuscan Chicken with Beans or Chicken with Basil Artichoke Sauce. I'm leaning toward the Chicken and Artichoke recipe, but we'll see when I get home. Either way, it's chicken.
 

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Last night I made my two daughter's favorite, Chicken & Dumplings.

Not sure about tonight. It's suppose to be cold so I may put on a pot of chicken soup since I still have some chicken left in the fridge.

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Apricot chicken. I put it in the crockpot before we went to bed; woke up to dinner! It's french dressing, apricot preserves, onion soup mix, and a bit of apple cider vinegar. It's very high in sugar so we don't eat it often, but it's so good. We serve it over rice.
 

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Apricot chicken. I put it in the crockpot before we went to bed; woke up to dinner! It's french dressing, apricot preserves, onion soup mix, and a bit of apple cider vinegar. It's very high in sugar so we don't eat it often, but it's so good. We serve it over rice.
This is a favorite, but I don't remember the last time I made it.

My mom probably cooked this a few times a month when I was a kid.  The whole family was into it.  Try it without the French dressing - we never used it and it would cut down on sugar/fat/calories.  I've even made it with fresh apricots in season - oh so good!
 

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Apricot chicken. I put it in the crockpot before we went to bed; woke up to dinner! It's french dressing, apricot preserves, onion soup mix, and a bit of apple cider vinegar. It's very high in sugar so we don't eat it often, but it's so good. We serve it over rice.
That sounds yummy!!!!!


I love cooking in my crockpot. It's so much easier and less mess to clean.

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