These pickles are infuriatingly beautiful. Our distinctly red exterior white interior radish has made love with it’s brine and they have become one. Why am I always giving vegetables human tendencies? Probably the same reason everyone I meet gets associated with an animal. I’m a pro at this, go ahead send me your photo to analyze, not my fault if your totem is a turkey. My infant son has no animal, so far hes gone from alien to peanut. Really why do little babies resemble peanuts SO. Much. I digress. Love these purdy pink pickles, they are some special and unique. Coriander, all spice, habanero chile. Zing! Jamaican jerk spice inspired pickles to the core. I hope you love them as much as I do, and desire to eat them on everything. They are quite satisfying with any fattier cut of meat or something rich and cheesy.

Apple cider vinegar was my choice as it is so healing and delicious. In the past when I was vegetarian I suffered from low HcL (hydrochloric acid) which is the healthy stomach acid that does the great initial job of breaking down our food. Funny enough, the condition of acid reflux is typically cause by low HcL. Products like (insert chalky sweet candy like substance here) actually exacerbate the condition and make matters worse over time. The best remedy is truly, apple cider vinegar, with each meal until your stomach acid is able to regulate itself to a point where you don’t experience the reflux effect. Tantalizing stuff right? Long story short, that’s just one of the therapeutic uses ACV has.

Now I know you must be wondering if you could pickle these using the wild fermentation technique, aka, substitute vinegar and sugar for a salty brine and allow to ferment at room temperature for several weeks, resulting in a delightfully probiotic super powerful veg substance. The answer is yes. But you need to consider the intensity of the spices won’t be quite the same since they aren’t heated in any matter. However an equally flavourful addition would be some fresh garlic and pepper corns or caraway seeds or hot chilis. Today I am hooking you guys up with 2 recipes for these spicy pickled radishes, one wild-fermentation version and one quick pickled vinegar version, yeehaw!