It had to happen

It had to happen

       The subject is pickling home grown potatoes

            Well, I'll now just cook these same potatoes "good" and serve them to the yard dogs. After all dogs have more acid in their gullets to kill germs (than we humans do), plus the cooking should have killed the germs, also. I think of steaming the potatoes as a way to cook them, too. And of course yard dogs are always hungry it seems to me. This especially applies during this traditionally chilly Fall season.

            Said another way, I won't just throw these potatoes away, or even put them in a mulch pile. After all, foods (and potatoes) are a way to collect and eat solar energy. We humans do need energy (and food) to live.

            My symptom of failure is the top of the canning jar is not depressed in, but bloated out. I call it the testing the metal top with my finger, and this test showed failure. Oh well, sometimes I do fail...but I also do still try.

            And pickled potatoes did not really appeal to me, other than the food value, which is a big consideration.  And the fact that pickling is about a six month preservation method is also on my mind.

            Last, I do have other locally grown garden potatoes I am preserving (really extending the shelf life)  the old fashioned way, like in my grandma's potato cellar, or my present version thereof.

            I guess it is often difficult to invent new cooking ideas, or even improve on old cooking and food preservation ideas. Those humans who came before us did OK, it seems to me in today's retrospect.  After all, they had to eat, too. Now I think learning their methods is an advantage to me these days.