The Magic Pickle Jar Cocktail Recipe

Have you heard the fable about the magic jar? It goes something like this:

A peasant boy is wandering through the woods looking for wild mushrooms to take back to his hungry family, when he meets a fox stuck in a trap. But this is no ordinary fox! This is a magic fox. As a reward for helping him out of the trap and not asking for anything in return, the fox gives the boy a jar. But this is no ordinary jar! This is a magic jar. When the boy takes the jar home, he finds that it fills itself and refills itself with pickles. Forever. The boy's family never goes hungry again. The end.

There are two morals to this story. First, always always be nice to animals stuck in traps because they are often magical. Second, the fable is pointing out a truth: your pickle jar is infinite too. Or at least, almost. Jalapenos, olives, homemade beet pickles, full sours, green beans every jar bears its own briny gift. Once those pickles are gone, every jar is a homemade cocktail (or four) waiting to happen. Using up what you already have is green.