{"id":76,"date":"2009-08-02T18:35:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-08-02T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:35:50","slug":"pickled-carrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2009\/08\/pickled-carrots\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickled carrots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made about two gallons of pickled carrots with jalape&ntilde;os and onions this afternoon, mostly using <a href=\"http:\/\/chowhound.chow.com\/topics\/616308\">this recipe<\/a>. I doubled all the ingredients but the carrots, because I wasn&#8217;t sure how many carrots the recipe called for. I used about 4.75 pounds total (after slicing). I&#8217;m not entirely sure how many jalape&ntilde;os I used, either. Slightly less by volume than there were carrots, I know. Let&#8217;s say around 30.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3783146022&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[carrot];height=375;width=500' title='P1000839.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2526\/3783146022_5a4dbcab0c_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='P1000839.JPG'\/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3782338281&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[carrot];height=375;width=500' title='P1000841.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2545\/3782338281_5bcbfe4689_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='P1000841.JPG'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brine and onions are pink because some of the carrots I used were purple carrots, and the color leached out of them during cooking. The batch filled our white stockpot, which I guess is two gallons. I gave half to my folks and kept half for us. It&#8217;s sitting in the fridge now, getting tastier. It should be ready to eat tomorrow, but it&#8217;ll probably develop the best flavor over the course of the next few weeks. If it lasts that long. I do like hot pickled carrots.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/alton-brown\/firecrackers-recipe\/index.html\">firecracker carrots<\/a> using these weird white carrots they had at Whole Foods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made about two gallons of pickled carrots with jalape&ntilde;os and onions this afternoon, mostly using this recipe. I doubled all the ingredients but the carrots, because I wasn&#8217;t sure how many carrots the recipe called for. I used about 4.75 pounds total (after slicing). I&#8217;m not entirely sure how many jalape&ntilde;os I used, either. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2009\/08\/pickled-carrots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pickled carrots<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[34,33],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wUSd-1e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}