Laziness can sometimes be a good motivator to do one thing just so you don’t have to do other things. This was the reason behind making pickled and marinated vegetables ! Sometimes you’re just too lazy or tired or don’t have enough time to ccok up something, and with just a little effort and very little money, you can prepare these vegetables at home and store them away and use them when you just want to make a fancy sandwich or go on a picnic or just have a quick and easy lunch or dinner, just add some bread, cheese, perhaps cold cuts and voilà ! I made small quantities with 3 different vegetables that fit perfectly inside my 3 jars (that each contains 0,5 litres of anything) ! The recipe is the same for each, you simply decide what aromatic herbs and/or spices you’d like to add (I used my ready-made mix of pickling spices) but the base recipe is the same with a few of my preferred combinations (make sure your vegetables are fresh and firm !) I also re-used the same pickling liquid to boil the vegetables one after the other for all three versions, it was easier that way and less wasteful (I just added a 1/4 cup extra water, 1/4 cup extra white wine vinegar and 1/3 tbsp of sea salt each time for the next vegetable batch on my list). Enjoy... :)