TIME FOR SUN PICKLES!!!

Many of you know how to find me in the summer! Every Wednesday and Saturday I'm at the Farmer's Market on 8th St. in Holland...(That's how I make ends meet so I can keep teaching Kindermusik!) I love to people watch and listen to the street performers. I also greet my fan club...the Kindermusik Kids know where to find me: at the Boeve's stand!

As you can see from what's in Anne's basket, pickles are really in season right now. They'll still have a quantity this Wednesday but the peak was probably today.

Here's my favorite pickle recipe:

Sun Pickles

in a gallon crock or glass container (not metal) combine

6 1/2 C water

3 1/4 C White Vinegar

1 tsp Alum (Keeps the pickles crisp)

2/3 C Pickling salt (regular salt has additives and won't work)

Take the very ends off of pickling cucumbers and layer in the container with peeled garlic cloves and dill. (The amount of dill and garlic varies with the family's taste. My kids LOVE the garlic.)

Cover the pickles with the brine solution. Leave in the sun (or on the counter) for 10 days. Refrigerate and enjoy within 6 weeks.

I like to sing the "Spirit of the Sun" song from Imagine That! Hello Weather CD in thanksgiving while I layer everything in the containers:

Spirit of the sun

Spirit of the rain

Warm the earth and feed the grain

Hi ya hi ya hi ya

Hi ya hi ya

Hi ya hi ya hi ya

A little bit tart!

Ahhhhh, summer.

Yvette

Hoppin' and Happenin' at the Farmers' Market!

A fun time today at the Farmer's Market!

Lots of children and lots of songs to sing.

I saw some friends, some new friends and some I haven't seen in a long time....Thanks for coming and having fun with me!
(and kids, thank your moms and grandmas for taking you!)





We sang songs like: Have you seen the strawberry man, the strawberry man, the strawberry man....(tune of Muffing Man) Don't forget the herb lady...Have you seen the herb lady, the herb lady, the herb lady....I'm there on Saturdays at the Boeve's stand selling herbs!
We did "Let's walk to the Farmers' Market and listen to our feet. Clip clop tip tap...walking down the street!"

And: "Can you plant the cabbage seeds, just like this, just like this".
(The Boeve's are selling cabbage plants so you don't have to wait quite so long for your cabbages to grow!)
The friend next to me in this photo has my cabbage. We're singing "Sarasponda Sarasponda" while we pass the cabbage. In September the market cabbages will be ready.



"Spirit of the Sun!" and what a beautiful sunny day we had. I loved drawing puddles with the sidewalk chalk. Malia jumped in and made a big splash!!!

See you again soon....at the Farmers' Market.....


Love to you,
Yvette