welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen
a really simple one today i'm just going
to do
what we always referred to at home as
just a table pickle it never really had
a name
but growing up it was on the table for
every meal from the time
the cucumbers started appearing in the
garden
and we always make it with these smaller
pickling cucumbers i've tried to make it
a few times in the winter
using those english cucumbers or
hothouse cucumbers and i find it doesn't
work quite as well it really is
that dish that is summertime you go
right out to the garden
you get the cucumber you bring them
inside and you start chopping them up
so i'm going to chop these up fairly
uniform
thick or as thin as you would like them
that's not really terribly important
just that they're relatively uniform
in their thickness and once i've got
enough
chopped up and put them into this bowl
and then i'm going to sprinkle in a
little bit of salt
toss them together make sure the salt is
on them
maybe a little bit more the salt is
going to help draw
out some water from the cucumbers and
it's going to make them crisper
in the end so i'm going to take a sieve
put them into the sieve put the sieve
over the bowl and
just let them sit on the counter for an
hour hour and a half
okay it's time to make the dressing and
the dressing is really simple it's
pretty much just
mayonnaise and vinegar so i'm going to
take about a quarter cup
of mayo and you don't have to be exact
you will
probably make this the first time and
then start to tailor it to your own
tastes
so switch up how much vinegar you put in
i think that's important make it your
own
and i put in about half as much vinegar
as i put in
mayo and i know that quite a few members
of my family use
vastly different proportions than i do
so everybody has their own taste
now i am going to put pepper in i'm
going to hold off on the salt for a
moment and the reason i'm going to hold
off on the salt is
i'm going to test these cucumbers and
see how salty they are and whether i
need to rinse them
no they're good that's the right amount
of salt for me
now if you test them and they're way too
salty rinse them under the tap
and give them a good shake and then
adjust the salt
into the mixture but i think these are
the right level of salt
so i'm just going to put them in and not
add any salt to the dressing
right so i just give this a stir mix it
all together really
nice and homogeneous and then i'm going
to stick it in the fridge for a couple
of hours
that couple hours in the fridge just
lets the flavors all come together
so see you back soon for tasting
table pickle a favorite definitely
favorite
yes and so easy
and suddenly there you've got a snack
that you just
i can eat that and eat that and eat that
it often just sits on the table and you
just kind of walk by and say oh you know
i need something a little refreshing you
have a couple
move on mm-hmm it's all these snacking
items it is
it is and it it you know takes me back
to being a little kid
my grandfather pulling up on the
bulldozer to the back porch coming in
for lunch
and this was on the table this was
always on the table for all of the meals
in the summertime it's right up there
with
onions and a and a bowl of salt
green onions green onions and a in a
glass of water
and my grandfather would take a salt
shaker and shake the top off and they
put a pile of salt in front of us
just dip the green onions in the salt
eat this um loaf of white bread with
yes but always the loaf right yeah
always bread that's the standard
anyway enough reminiscing on our part so
you can leave this out on the table
it is mayonnaise but mayonnaise
has a bad rap it's not as dangerous as
everybody thinks it is
studies have shown that mayonnaise has
enough vinegar and preservatives in
commercial mayonnaise
yes has enough vinegar and preservatives
in it that not only will bacteria not
grow in it if you put bacteria into it
it will kill it so we put mayonnaise in
here we put salt in here and we put more
vinegar
so this is fine on the table for a
couple of hours
it'll be okay um not tomorrow
so anyway this is a super simple table
pickle
enjoy your summer thanks for stopping by
see you again soon
you