Every week for the past 6 weeks, I’ve put up a small batch of pickles and now I have enough for a crowd. Which is perfect since about 150 people or so will show up for a picnic next week and while I’ll still be sweating the rest of the dishes, the pickles are ready. [...]
Archive for the ‘Pickle’ Category
Pickle Projects: Garlic Scapes, Sliced Dills and Sweet-Hots
Posted in Cucumbers, Pickle, Preserving, Uncategorized, tagged Pickled garlic scapes on July 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Simple Supper: Cabbage Soup, Grilled Cheese and Pickled Okra
Posted in Cabbage, Carrots, Okra, Pickle, Soup, tagged Diet cabbage soup on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I posted this for the pickles. Last summer, I made a batch of okra pickled with vinegar, dill, garlic and red pepper, and we finally got around to eating it. These babies are great! The texture stayed firm and the flavor is rich but piquant. A perfect accompaniment to grilled cheese sandwiches made with rustic [...]
Homemade Pickled Herring for the New Year
Posted in Appetizers, Pickle, Preserving, Seafood, tagged Homemade pickled herring on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When I was growing up, we always had pickled herring around for the New Year, as well smoked fish. I always thought it was a cultural superstition but later figured that it was a cure for a hangover since those were the days of big New Year’s Eve bashes held at people’s houses. By happenstance, [...]
Turnip and Beet Pickle
Posted in Beets, Pickle, Turnips and rutabagas, tagged pickled beets, Pickled turnips on July 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At the beginning of July, when the temperatures start to climb, simple foods served cold or grilled are an antidote to the cloying weather. While I do put up pickled vegetables and other condiments, we don’t tend to eat them throughout the year. Hence my new interest in short-term, small-batch pickling. This one, adapted from [...]
Pickles: Sweet and Hot
Posted in Pickle, Tigress Can Jam, tagged Sweet hot pickles on July 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There’s a certain large picnic that I cook for every August, so I start pickling as soon as small pickling cucumbers show up at the farmers’ markets. This year I did not can any dill pickles, at least not so far, but decided to go back to an old family favorite, bread and butter pickles. [...]
The Season’s First Dill Pickles
Posted in Pickle, tagged Refrigerator dill pickles on June 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
With the heat wave this last week, my dill flowered and I saw pickling cucumbers at the farmers’ market, so I decided to make the first of the season’s cucumber pickles. I didn’t can them because I am conducting an experiment. When my grandmother canned dill pickles, she added powdered alum, which supposedly keeps them [...]
Pickled Broccoli Stems
Posted in broccoli, Pickle, tagged Broccoli stem pickles on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The stems of broccoli are as great as the florets but because of their different consistencies, some people don’t see how to use them together unless the head is cut lengthwise into slim slices so that the tops and bottoms cook at the same rate. I often cook the tops and stems separately and then [...]
Tiger Lily Carrots with Daikon, Ginger and Sesame
Posted in Carrots, Pickle, Preserving, Radish, Tigress Can Jam, tagged Carrot, Preserving, Radish on February 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
For the February Can Jam event brilliantly organized by Tigress in a Jam, I was inspired by a carrot salad that I make in the summer – carrot ribbons cured in lemon juice, spritzed with toasted sesame oil and tossed with toasted black sesame seeds. I call it a tiger lily salad because of its [...]
Pickled Asparagus
Posted in Asparagus, Fish, Pickle, Preserving, tagged Asparagus, Fish, Preserving on February 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Back in June when asparagus was in season locally, I put up a batch in tall 12-ounce jars. Like the carrots destined for the February Can Jam, asparagus is a low-acid vegetable and therefore requires the addition of an acid such as vinegar in order to be safe for water bath canning. I got the [...]
