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guess what i made???

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PICKLES – I still can’t believe it!  I LOVE pickles especially bread and butter pickles.  One of the few drawbacks of living in Spain is that you can’t find sweet pickles at the grocery store.  Spanish pickles are crazy vinegary (is that even a word?) and I don’t like them at all; I usually buy German dill pickles.  I’d been seeing lots of blog posts about making quick pickles however I never found the little pickling cucumbers so I just forgot about it.  That is until I was in the El Corte Inglés (Spain’s answer to Macy’s) supermarket and I found little mini cucumbers.  Logically I snatched up a few little boxes and set out to make pickles.

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