Don't Throw Away That Empty Pickle Jar!

Don’t toss that pickle jar! Make a fresh and tasty tomato-cucumber salad with the leftover brine.

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00:00If you just ate the last pickle in your pickle jar, this is not trash, here's what you can do with it.

00:04First, pour all the liquid out of your jar so that you can measure how much you're putting back in.

00:07Into your leftover pickle jar, we're gonna put a quarter cup of water,

00:11three quarters cup of the pickle juice, season it with some sugar and some black pepper.

00:19Then you just pack your vegetables in there. Cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, red onion,

00:24celery, parsley, and dill, and we're packing it tightly into this jar

00:29to give it a shake. Then we'll put it in the fridge and chill it for at least an hour so

00:33everything gets nice and pickley flavor, but you can do it up to 24 hours in advance for

00:37maximum pickle-age. Is that a word? It's going to be so good. Here we go. I can't wait any longer.

00:43You can serve this in a bowl if you're serving other people. It's just me right now in my house,

00:48so I'm going straight out of the jar. So fresh, so crunchy. Pickley, but not too pickley. Might

00:54be the way that I'm going for my tomato cucumber salads from here on out. Y'all have got to make

00:58this before summer's up.