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Those pickles sound good.

I've started sowing seeds all over the property, from both plants, since they are such strong and useful "weeds."
 
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Denise Cares wrote:...  Also I tried making lacto-ferment pickles with just the thickest stalks I could fine (pinch off the smaller side stems and toss into your salad). Cut stalks to about the length of your canning jar and arrange them standing upright as close together as possible. Cover with brine of water and pure sea salt or rock salt. I like to add fresh garlic slices. Bay leaf is optional but may help keep them crisp. Cover loosely and let ferment in fridge for several days. The stalks taste just like pickles in my estimation. Use in potato salad or as a side to burgers, etc. They keep a long time in their brine in the fridge.


Thank you Denise.
I did as described. Now all I have to do is wait until it's fermented. It looks like this:

 
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I let my purslane go to seed anywhere it wants to.  If it gets ahead of me, my mule loves it.  It's one of the few things that grows happily in full sun when the temperature is 100+.  Yesterday was 105.  Tomorrow's supposed to be 108.
 
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That's a good looking jar of Purslane Pickles!
 
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Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:

Denise Cares wrote:...
Thank you Denise.
I did as described. Now all I have to do is wait until it's fermented. It looks like this:


Inge, how did your purslane pickles turn out?

 
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Denise Cares wrote:
Inge, how did your purslane pickles turn out?


My pickled purslane was okay. Only on top was a little mouldy (some stalks were not totally under the liquid). I cut that part off to throw away. The good part had the right fermented taste.
 
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