Peppers, picked and pickled

It's impossible to pick a peck of pickled peppers; however, you may pickle a peck of peppers picked from the prolific pepper plants growing in my pepper patch.

This summer has been perfect for growing peppers of all kinds.  I grow sweet banana peppers from seed that I have saved from year to year.  This year's patch of twelve plants have outdone themselves. 

We have peppers on salads, in soup, roasted, and added to just about every dish I make.  I have cut and frozen a whopping eight quarts of them.  I've sent them to Minnesota for my mom and siblings.  I have carried so many of them to school that the staff are beginning to hide when they see me coming. 

Then I discovered that my new son-in-law loves to make pickled peppers.  He is taking every picked pepper and producing jar after jar of beautiful and tasty pickles.

As the weather begins to cool down, the pepper patch will slowly fade away and the first frost will finish them off but we are still picking peppers to pickle from the pepper patch.

In case you are wondering (as I did), a peck of peppers is the equivalent to eight quarts--I have a peck of peppers in my freezer!