Eight pints of sweet garlic dill pickles*

Four jelly jars and one half-pint of pickled peppers*

All cucumbers, banana peppers, and jalapeno peppers grown by Nik in our garden

Pickles are really so easy to make, very delicious, and when you make them yourself, you don’t have to eat artificial coloring, flavoring or any of the other crazy stuff that is in the grocery store pickles.

Now I have one question for you:

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pecks of pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

*recipes from this great book, The Complete Book of Year-Round Small-Batch Preserving (highly recommended if you want to make pickles).