Food

If you are feeling adventurous you can try this - Southern Bread and Butter pickles. I brought these to a forum BBQ and they were demolished. Easy to make too. Fans of the Pitt Cue will recognise that you can use the juice for pickle back shots.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/06/br...utter-pickles/

A couple of useful notes about this as it is a US based recipe and my own personal tweaks.

1. You want Ogurki cucumbers - summer is when they are in season and you can buy them from any Polish shops or large greengrocers near a Polish community
   
2. Cut down the number of mustard seeds by half - the mustard seeds are too too strong for my taste
   
3. Salt - since you are not using kosher salt you need about 2x as much in table salt. Roughly. You can always add salt later but hard to take it out so go a little light if you're unsure
   
4. Onions - you need sweet onions for this but you want some bite you can replace half the volume with some shallots instead. Again, slice thinly.
   
5. Watch the tumeric - even slightly over it ends up making the liquid too cloudy.
   
6. If you put them straight into the fridge they stay amazingly crunchy. Very different texture, but equally delicious.
   
   

Defo gonna try this however, it takes a steady hand to pipe icing sugar and I fear that, due the lengthy cooking process of the above meat and my inability to resist the beers I had in the fridge, my Star Wars cookies will have to wait until morning.