My first attempt at pickled cucumbers

Our good friends that have a wonderful garden gave us a big bag of cucumbers the other day...they just had so many they needed to get rid of them! (lucky buggers with real green thumbs!)...so, since we can only fit so many cucumbers into a day, I decided to try and make some dill pickles-I just did this jar up today (it's the only jar I had so doesn't really make much)....they have to set for a week; I'll let you in on the recipe if they turn out-it's sooooooo easy, I'm afraid they might not turn out-LOL! The only problem was that I didn't have any FRESH dill...I just had to throw in dry...but I put in lots of garlic-so, we'll see!

Other pics today include last night's salad-which of course has fresh cucumber in it as well as freshly sprouted bean sprouts from my own counter top. These are so easy and super healthy as the seed produces heaps of vitamins in order to sprout. And so easy- I just soak the seeds overnight, then put them in my little sprouter...rinse once a day...and within 2 or 3 days....I got me some super healthy salad toppings! Also pictured is the avocado oil & vinegar dressing I made...I got the recipe out of the June US Oxygen magazine.
1/4 C avocado oil
1 TBS rice vinegar
1 TBS honey
juice of one lemon
pinch or 2 of sea salt.
Personally, I will leave the honey out next time....too sweet for me!

Last pic is one of the many friar birds that visit us every morning and feed off of our Grevillia tree. It's the greatest pic, but there you go...


I'm on chest, shoulders & bis tomorrow....As many gals out there...I LOVE SHOULDERS!!!
Have a good one!