Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, ice box pickles. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ice Box Pickles is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Ice Box Pickles is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have ice box pickles using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ice Box Pickles:
- Take 1 head cauliflower
- Prepare 7 cup cucumber diced, with seeds removed
- Prepare 1/2 cup onion, sliced
- Prepare 1/2 cup sliced red or green pepper, or a combination of both
- Make ready 2 cup sugar**
- Get 1 cup vinegar
- Make ready 1 tbsp coarse salt
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard seed
- Take 1 tsp celery seed
- Make ready 2 large mason jars
Instructions to make Ice Box Pickles:
- Cut up all vegetables into a large container or bowl (1 gallon capacity approx.)
- Combine vinegar, spices, salt, and **sugar into a jar and shake well. With the sugar, 2 cups is fairly sweet, so if you want a sweeter pickle use all 2 cups. For a tarter pickle use less. I started with 1 ½ cups in the jar and taste tested. I used about 1 ⅔ cups of sugar.
- Pour the liquid over the cut up vegetables, cover and refrigerate 12 – 24 hrs stirring every 6 - 8 hrs or so, making sure all the vegetables are evenly coated.
- The vegetable mass you started with will drop considerably and the liquid mass will double to triple in volume.
- Divide your pickled vegetables into 2 jars and cover with the liquid left in the container.
- Theses pickles will keep for 3 months in the refrigerator, if they last that long! Enjoy! :)
Turn to Food to Boost Your Mood
Most of us have been taught to think that comfort foods are bad and are to be avoided. Often, if your comfort food is essentially candy or other junk foods, this is true. Otherwise, comfort foods may be really nourishing and good for you. There are several foods that, when you eat them, could improve your mood. If you feel a little bit down and you need a happiness pick me up, try a couple of these.
Eggs, you might be astonished to learn, are great at combating depression. Just be sure that you do not throw away the egg yolk. When you would like to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most vital part of the egg. Eggs, the yolk especially, are rich in B vitamins. B vitamins can actually help you elevate your mood. This is because the B vitamins improve the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that affect how you feel). Try to eat an egg and feel a lot better!
Put together a trail mix out of seeds and/or nuts. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etc are all good for improving your mood. This is possible because these foods have a bunch of magnesium which boosts serotonin production. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical substance that tells the brain how to feel at any given time. The more serotonin you have, the more pleasant you are going to feel. Not only that, nuts, in particular, are a terrific protein food source.
Cold water fish are excellent for eating if you want to fight depression. Cold water fish including tuna, trout and wild salmon are rich in DHA and omega-3s. These are two substances that boost the quality and function of the grey matter in your brain. It’s true: eating a tuna fish sandwich can seriously boost your mood.
It’s easy to fight your bad mood when you eat grains. Teff, barley, millet, quinoa, etc are all excellent for helping you feel better. They help you feel full as well which can really help to better your mood. Feeling famished can actually make you feel awful! The reason these grains can improve your mood is that they are not hard for your stomach to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps kick start a rise in your glucose levels which in turn brings up your mood to a happier place.
Your mood could truly be helped by green tea. You just knew green tea had to be in this article somewhere, right? Green tea is rich in an amino acid called L-theanine. Research has found that this amino acid promotes the production of brain waves. This will improve your brain’s concentration while also loosening up the rest of your body. You were already aware that green tea could help you become better. Now you know that green tea can elevate your mood as well!
So you see, you don’t need to stuff your face with junk food when you are wanting to feel better! Try some of these suggestions instead.
