Pickle(ish)

Close-up view of sliced yellow honeydew melon, green grapes, and crackers on a wooden serving board with a jar of dill pickles in the background, on a tabletop with a white brick wall and window in the background.

What started as an attempt to recreate a pickle from a beloved childhood deli, turned into a lot of tinkering.

Naturally, we bought more cucumbers. Things got a little out of hand. A reasonable hobby became a less reasonable hobby. The refrigerator situation escalated quickly.

Batch after batch, we learned something new. Mostly that we liked the moments in between more than the thing we thought we were chasing.

The only problem was we weren't exactly sure what we had made.

Were they pickles? Were they cucumbers?

After much debate, it was clear. They were pickles….barely.