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National Pickle Day may yet be a couple of months away, but now's the time to start perfecting your technique, as did Flickr user "You Can Count on Me." Though the pickles themselves aren't even pictured, their zingy brine looks promising, with masses of fiery floating peppercorns and sprigs of dill.

Treasured for their tangy flavor alone, pickles boast both a historic background and surprising health benefits. Vitamin-C rich pickles were packed on Christopher Columbus's fateful voyage to help the seamen fight scurvy -- and actually take their name from the ship's stocker, Amerigo Vespucci. Today, the fermented fruits are considered extra nutritious for allowing bacteria the time to create additional vitamins and are in fact more easily digested than their non-treated counterparts. So get pickling!

Check out more pickle trivia at the Science of Pickles and try the pictured recipe from blog Everybody Likes Sandwiches.

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There's something about this picture that keeps grabbing my eye. I love the color of the table in combination with the ketchup, mustard and bannock-wrapped hot dog. I've never had bannock before, but the recipe that Jeannette (of Everybody Likes Sandwiches) posted seems really quick, easy and versatile. From her blog post, it sounds like a useful quick bread that's good to keep in the rotation.

Thanks Jeannette!

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I hope you can stomach one more sweet treat after the sugar orgy that is late December. This lovely chocolate cake (and don't you love the way the background pattern mimics the look of the sprinkles) comes from Jeannette of Everybody Likes Sandwiches. She baked this cake as a Christmas dessert and if you're up for it, you can get the recipe here.

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Halloween may now be over, but so many of the fall foods we associate with the holiday are still perfectly appropriate up through the end of November (when we shift into December, I figure it's time to surrender the pumpkins and apples). This means that just because you didn't manage to make a batch of caramel apples before October expired, doesn't mean that you have to wait another year to do so.

The picture you see above comes from Everybody Likes Sandwiches. She adapted her recipe from one posted by Heidi at 101 Cookbooks. Thanks Jeannette, for adding your pic to the Slashfood pool.

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Yesterday morning, I made pancakes even though I really wanted waffles. The idea of digging around the coat closet (my kitchen storage annex) in order to pull out the waffle iron felt like far more effort that I could muster up on a lazy Saturday morning and so I opted for pancakes, made from mix stirred up according to my father's special recipe. They have honey toasted wheat germ, cornmeal and uncooked millet in them and are lightly sweetened with a touch of cane sugar. My pancakes were delicious, but this picture of a batch of cornmeal ricotta waffles, taken last fall by Jeannette of Everybody Likes Sandwiches, makes me think it might just be worth the effort to pull out the waffle maker after all.

Thanks Jeannette, for adding your image to the Slashfood Flickr pool!

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