pickle recipes

While I'm anxiously waiting for ripening tomatoes and peppers, I jumped on the chance to use an in-season vegetable. I wasn't inspired by the usual rhubarb treatments drowned in sugar for pies, jams and crumbles. Why not embrace the sour? Doing a bit o...

Oh cheese, glorious cheese...yum! Did you guys see that ALL CHEESE wedding cake on Cup of Jo this week? My gawd! My jaw dropped ---does it get any better than that? Well it can. Even cheese needs a sidekick. Batman had Robin, Cousin Larry had Balk...

On a recent sunny morning after three hours of clamming in Bodega Bay, I partook in a sampling of preserved foods with ten other folks.  Sweet, funky, sour and savory flavors filled that morning with a periodic wave of salty mist.  The standout jar (for me) was filled with preserved baby artichokes. We’ve all...

Can you believe it's Monday already? And how HOT it was this weekend? Hope you survived. I know the AC was turned on over here. This weekend really seemed to whiz by. Mr. S. didn't have the kidlets this weekend so we got some stuff done around his casa...

These are a take on pickled beet eggs, prepared in pickled beet juice so they come out a bright color, but prepared in the manner of 1000 year old eggs. Pickled beet eggs are made by placing peeled hard boiled eggs in a beet pickling mix...

Relationships are about balance. You gotta give a little and take a little...isn't that how the song goes? Well last week I got spoiled a bit rotten by Mr. S. with a wonderful dinner at Mulvaney's, one of my favorite restaurants. It was a nig...

I'm on Day 2 of my Pickling-Fest at the cottage. Today I decided to do some crunchy Asian green beans with chili peppers (yum!). I cranked out a couple of jars while listening to some Lumineers and Avett Brothers (both bands which will be coming t...

Rainy days make some people antsy but I always find them to be a great time to catch up on projects that I've been meaning to get around to doing...like this one for pickling garlic. I love pickled garlic and bookmarked this recipe last year after...

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The cucumbers I attempted to grow didn’t really go anywhere. I think maybe I planted them in too shady of a spot.  I maybe got 5. Not nearly enough to make pickles. I thought “oh well, maybe next year”. That is, until I went to the farmer’s market one day last month and I...