Pickles and Marmalade...

If you're going to live a happy and productive life of activism and service for others, you need to be well fed! Here's some healthy recipes that are quick and easy--leaving you plenty of time to craft a better world!

Quick Refrigerator Pickled Okra

Wash fresh okra and trim off most of the stem. Stuff the okra vertically, stem up, into a glass jar with a secure lid. Figure out how much vinegar you're going to need to cover the okra to the brim of the jar, and put that much vinegar plus a bit more on to boil. To every pint of vinegar you use, you'll need: 3 Tbsp. sea salt, 4 gloves of garlic, 2-3 spicy peppers and a small hand full of pickling spices (optional). The pepper part you'll just have to play with in terms of which variety and how much you'll like personally. I throw in 1 jalapeno and a couple of small, sweet red peppers. Boil the vinegar and other ingredients for five minutes, then pour into your jars over the okra. Screw on the lid when cool; marinate 1 week. Be warned: You have only one more week, after the first week of marinating the okra, to consume your pickles before they start to "go off ", but don't worry--you'll have them all eaten by then! Delicious! 

Quick Refrigerator Marmalade

We use this quick and easy refrigerator marmalade recipe from the web site Recipezaar. It makes up a delicious marmalade in 20 minutes, and my husband, an Irishman who knows his orange  marmalade, swears by it and won't take store bought marmalade anymore (so be warned!) The only variation we do to this recipe is that we like more peel in our marmalade, so we dice a small hand full of peel into tiny pieces about 1/4" by 1/4" and add them to the mixture to cook for 15 minutes.

http://recipezaar.com/Easy-Orange-Marmalade-78925

Enjoy!