So I’m checking out at the store, and I hold up a jar of pickles and two packs of cherry Kool-Aid to my girls Meshaun and Lorita who are sitting in the motorized shopping carts up next to the front door with their phones and say, “Guess what I’m making?”
They look at one another like, “This fool don’t know what he’s doing,” and tell me first that I should’na bought cherry, you gotta use Tropical Punch, and you dump that pickle juice out and make a quart of that punch with two packs of mix and one cup of sugar, and you shouldna’ bought whole pickles cause now you gotta slice them in half and no, you do not need to heat it up, just pour the Kool-Aid in there and put it in the refrigerator for about a day
That’s all you gotta do, and who in the hell told you you could cook, you big dummy.
This week I made my first jar of cherry Kool-Aid pickles—not bad but the next time I make them, soon I think, I’ll follow the recipe, lol. I added several dried chili pequins for heat which seemed to not bump it up, so will try a small de-seeded red habanero, or maybe fresh chili pequins since I have a bush, next batch.