Tom's Life Bits

Here is a Fire and Ice Pickle recipe.

• 2 quarts dill pickle chips
• 4 cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons Tabasco sauce
• 1/2 to 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 4 cloves of garlic.

Drain pickles and pour into a large bowl. Add sugar, Tabasco sauce and red pepper flakes and let soak for two hours. Put the garlic cloves in your jars and add pickles and juice and refrigerate overnight.

Here's a version from scratch:

• Famous Dave's Pickles