Pickle Me Garlic

First thing is first-sister's weekend was fantastic. It was spent in a rental house in Spicer, Minnesota. If you'd like to know more: Green Lake Bible Camp . After lots of chit chatting with just a sliver of the women in my family, I am determined to continue my efforts in finding various recipes to try and share. Believe it or not, the aunts even put out a cookbook by in 2007 with various recipes and little added flashbacks to their childhood (on the farm).

I was in charge of bringing fruit and scones for breakfast.

Where we stayed.

A nice walk on the beach one morning.

Our Mystery Dinner

 My own mother is a cookbook fanatic! She loves them! Which in turn has given her quite the collection, varying in the traditional (Betty Crocker style), church (I find these the best),  country, and the odd (including recipes for squirrel, rabbit, possum, etc.). Having only been alive for 25 years and only been cooking for just over half of those years for myself-perhaps I need to find my own favorites; set out to create my own style.

As this title of this blog is, "Pickle Me Garlic," one could only guess that my next recipe includes garlic. I found a jar of my new love at Mackenthuns Meats in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota. Ever since then when I find myself wanting just a little something to tide me over, I reach in the fridge and grab this jar instead of the pickles. Any one can have a pickle. Why not pickled garlic instead?

Okay, so I didn't find a recipe that I truly liked for this so I created my own. I'm not too wild and crazy (yet) about bell peppers and what not, so I just stuck to the garlic portion. One day I was surfin' on the internet and found a simple one-but couldn't find it today. Therefore, I decided to be bold and do something I don't normally do-trial and error. As I sat at my kitchen counter for probably half an hour just peeling cloves of garlic and listening to the new CD of Miranda Lambert: For the Record and watching Cash be bored with me I prayed this would work!

*WARNING: DO NOT MAKE PICKLED GARLIC IF YOU DON'T HAVE AT LEAST 2 HOURS OF PREPPING*

Now that I am done I can hopefully confidently say that it should be good...4 weeks later. At that point I will let you know! Otherwise, go surfin' yourself and try it! 

Mackenthuns Meats:
http://www.mackenthunsmeats.com/index.html

Green Lake Bible Camp:
http://www.gllm.org/page.cfm?PAGEID=80

Make sure as to not stuff the jar too full.

Just peeeeeeeeling away!

A bowl of sorts is nice to discard instead of hunching over a garbage can.

This was my ingredients to create what hopefully will be tasty!

After boiling and sealing the top. Now to the fridge.

Cash got bored-so he took a nap.