After researching a few different recipes and trying a couple, I have come up with my own recipe. Kind of stumbled onto it after running out of white vinegar one evening and finishing up with raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar. It turned out to be a pleasant surprise. So now, I use apple cider vinegar in place of white. It adds an additional dimension to the flavor profile. Â I also started adding more in the jar besides just eggs. In part, because I have always enjoyed a cucumber and onion salad which uses cold vinegar. By adding them with eggs, the jar gives a variety of flavors, tastes, and textures. All go great on a salad. So let’s get started.
What is needed:
First, cook the eggs. A standard way is to place eggs into a sauce pan and cover with water. Let set until they all reach room temperature, cold eggs take longer and are more prone to crack. Bring water to a full boil. Remove from heat and let stand for 10 minutes. Use a timer – “Siri, set timer for 10 minutes.” At the end of ten minutes, rinse in cold water and plunge into an ice batch to stop the cooking. Once fully cooled, peel the eggs. I usually cook the eggs a day or so in advance, so I only have to peel them while the pickling mix is cooking. Just makes it easier.
Second, make the pickling mixture. Slice the onion up. Slice the cucumber. In a medium sauce pan add the vinegars, 1/2 the sliced onions, garlic, pickling spices, and water. Bring to a boil. Boil a couple of minutes and turn the heat off. Â While this cooking and resting, peel your eggs.
Get your mason jar and make layers withe cucumber slices, onion slices, and eggs. You want to make sure the liquid mixture will flow between everything and fill the jar. Take the  pickling mixture and fill the jar with it. Put the lid on and let it set until it is cooled down. Once cooled you can place in the refrigerator and in about 7 days you’ll have yummy pickled eggs, cucumbers, and onions. Enjoy.
Dear GOP. You better wake up and get your party in order. You have let the extremist take over and on your way to extinction. Hate filled lies can only work for so long. Purging the party of those who believe that to govern means to work together and not hold blindly to rabid ideology is not a solution, it is your problem. In California you have become marginalized, and as California goes so does the rest of the country. Even today, another (former) Republican speaks up and realizes that you, GOP, are not the solution. You are the problem.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist: Here’s why I’m backing Barack Obama
I know it sounds funny but think about it. What is heaven always being described as? Up in the air, on clouds, all white. What about color? The world we live in is full of color. Between the black and white are not “shades” of gray but a full rainbow of color. Reds, blues, greens, yellows, purples, oranges, all these colors that weave into the fabric of life. I find it sad when people refer to things “black or white” – come on! Nature shows us that the world, and people, are variety of and the spectrum. I would miss this.
Another reason is that I do not want to spend my time (eternity) in choir singing praises to some deity. Really? Doesn’t that sound a bit sick. What lack of self-confidence and esteem that deity must have if it requires continuous praise and worship. Boring. Boring. Boring. One thing I have come to appreciate about this life is the variety that we have. Yes, it can be challenging and frightening but also rewarding. If there is no variation, then you’re flat lining.
I hope that there is reincarnation. I find this world interesting, fun, full of life. This is one reason I do want to see us take care of the planet. I want to come back here. It is a reason I get so frustrated with those so-called conservatives. They want to let the world go to hell environmentally in order to benefit themselves and corporations. To make a buck.
I think that this goes to problem with monotheistic linear beliefs. These people believe that once they leave this world the go to better place. So of course they have no problem polluting and abusing this world. It is only a stepping stone to “some place better.” Please, if you can’t take of this world why should a deity let you into another one to mess up.
I wonder how different people would behave if the new for a fact that there was no afterlife, only a next life. That each time we die, we are reborn back here in the world. Randomly. Would people try to make this world a better place? Would people try to eliminate poverty? Would people look to find ways to help each other? After all, the next life might be in an impoverished nation, or maybe as a different gender, race, or orientation.
Yes, I don’t want to go to heaven but I do want to come back to a better Earth.
Been in Maui for 5 days now. It has been a beautiful trip and weather has been cooperating. We have been doing the food tour as usual.
Arrived on Wednesday – dinner at Fred’s. We left on the first morning flight from LA. This is our indulgence and we fly first class on Hawaiian Air. We were on the newer A330 planes and it was really nice. The service on Hawaiian has always impressed us. The first day on the island is getting the car, arriving at the condo (Maui Banyan) and unpacking. Then it is time for dinner. Fred’s is walking distance to the Maui Banyan (ok, it only few hundred feet away) so it make for a great start.
Thursday – 808 Bistro. This is a new place for us. It took over the space that used to be the Greek Bistro. We didn’t have reservations so we were put in the back. Which was fine for most of the meal. It was only towards the end when a large family of 16 showed. The food was spectacular. The place does not sell alcohol but you can bring your own beer and wine. The hostess was “indifferent” but the waitress was good and the helpers were good. Over all, it is a place we would go back to. And, we did.
Friday – Feast at Le Le. This is a great “luau” Parties are set at individual tables, no banquet seating. The food is brought to the tables, no buffet lines. Drinks are brought to the table, no bar lines. This is a five course meal with each course consisting of 3 dishes. Each course represents a different culture that populated the islands – Hawaiian, New Zealand, Tahitian, and Samoan. Lots of good food, and good drinks.
Saturday – Aroma D’Italia. Yes, an Italian restaraunt. It is a local place that has been around for years and food is good. We discovered the place a few years back and it one of our regulars. The lasgana is execellent. The service has always been good.
Sunday – Isana. This a Korean bbq place that also serves sushi. It is another one of our regular go to places for dinner. The sushi is fresh and quite reasonable. This time we started with rainbow roll along with the traditional philadelphia roll, and spciy tuna roll. The rainbow was one the most attractive ones I’ve seen. The entree’s were excellent. We’ll be back there on our next trip.
Monday lunch — Da Kitchen at the Warf in Lahaina. This is a new place in Lahaina and we thought it would be like the Da Kitchen in Kehei. It wasn’t. The first tip off should have been the bar it had and formal seating. When we were seated the guy only had two menus instead of three. He said we could share. He didn’t even bother to get another one. Service was slow, but I have to admit that we arrived just after a party of six and a party of four had been seated. We ordered our food and waited. During the wait there was a table of two women who got up and left. They had been seated just before we were and they had not yet ordered. Right after they left, the server picked up the two place settings of napkin and fork and gave it to another table of four. Normally, I don’t think about taking place settings from one table for another, but that is if no one had been setting there. Then again, maybe I was just being grumpy. The food was nothing special. After we left, we realized that there were a lot of better places we could have eaten at in Lahaina.
Monday Dinner – Mama’s Fish House. This a stable for our trip to Maui. We always make a dinner at Mama’s. However, this trip I was less impressed than in the past. Maybe it was the table. For the past few years we have been placed in a nice table near a window. This time we were in the middle by a serving station. Worst, we were seated next to people with a baby. Why would someone take a baby to a restaurant like Mama’s? More, why does the restaurant not keep families with babies and little kids in a specific area? Nothing ruins a “moment” more than having a baby start screaming. Folks, you think they are cute, we don’t. Mama you’re not “that” good to allow such distractions. I ordered the Ahi and wanted it seared on the out and rare in the inside. It was okay, Roy’s was better. I would say my comment after dinner says all, “I could skip Mama’s next year.”
