Pickled Eggs!

Last night, I made a small batch (20) of Slick's style pickled eggs. Two of my roommates are moving out soon, and I want to make sure they experience this American food first! Pickled eggs are also a typical food around Michigan Tech.

Just like everything I've made in this country, I had to improvise. We couldn't find jalapeno peppers at the store, so I bought a jar of green and red peppers that looked like they could work! Vinegar even is harder to find. I ended up with a super-concentrated salad dressing bottle, so we had to dilute it for the eggs. There is also no pickling spice in Germany, so I improvised with what I could find in our apartment! I rescued the jars from my neighbor's recycling pile and rounded up some eggs (eggs are even metric over here - they come in cartons of 10)!!!!

As I was down in the kitchen boiling eggs and jalapeno-vinegar-spice mixture on the stove, Martina came in and immediately exclaimed "Ugh! Es stinkt wie Essig!" (it stinks like vinegar!). It stunk up the whole apartment making the eggs, but luckily it was about 60 degrees on January 10, so we just opened the windows. I haven't tasted the eggs yet because they haven't pickled long enough, so we'll see how German pickled eggs taste!

Update 01-29-07: They're delicious! The Germans found them revolting though!