Entries by ChrisS

Quick and Easy Fermented Dill Pickles

By Deb Tejada – MotherEarthNews.com Tags: pickles, fermentation, food preservation, pickling, Colorado, Deb Tejada Have you ever wanted to… • make your own pickles, but became discouraged and overwhelmed with the amount of work involved with traditional recipes? • make just one — or two — jars of pickles and not have to deal with canning […]

Pickling days are here

By Jesse Davis for The Farmers’ Market – published on grandrapidsmn.com We are a long way off from Nov. 14, the official National Pickle Day, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping anyone at the Grand Rapids Farmers’ Market from picking up bushels of cucumbers along with fresh dill, garlic and the occasional hot pepper […]

Candied Jalapeños

by Rececca Gagnon – Journal Sentinel   Description:  Rebecca Gagnon, author of “The Little Book of Home Preserving” (Peter Pauper Press, 2013), said she “can never get enough of” these Candied Jalapeños, which she makes every year.“They can be used on practically everything — from tacos and nachos, to eggs and grilled cheese sandwiches,” she writes. […]

The vegetable you should start pickling ASAP

from: by Alexandra Stafford Last summer I was lucky enough to be the recipient of a friend’s backyard vegetable bounty. Nearly every week I could count on opening my front door to find a basket teeming with beefsteak tomatoes, cucumbers, snap peas, chard, kale, and tubs of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes. I could also count […]

London is in a pickle: meet Freddie Janssen, the kimchi queen making preservation cool

FRANKIE MCCOY Wednesday 26 August 2015 10:41 BST Evening Standard. Jarring: Freddie Janssen with her pickles Rebecca Reid What do you picture when you picture a pickle — probably the soggy sliver of cucumber fished from your 2am McDonald’s? What you probably don’t are neon-pink plums, coffee-pickled beetroot, or “monster” kimchi hot sauce. But you […]

Cantaloupe among the fruits that gained pickling popularity in the 1800s

Hanna Raskin Email @hannaraskin – The Post and Courier If Charleston’s amateur pickle makers didn’t rush to their gardens and markets in search of preservation-worthy melons after reading a cooking column in the July 1, 1917, issue of The Sunday News, the columnist’s derisive tone was probably to blame. “Here is a sweet pickle recipe for […]

Homemade Zucchini Pickles—No Joke!

BY STACY DERMONT – www.danspapers.com Why do you lock your car doors in the Hamptons during the summer? If you leave your car unlocked, someone might fill it with zucchini. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the summer squash in your garden, do what I do and pickle ’em. They’ll look really appealing this winter, I promise. […]

Opinion: Pickling is in my genes

MARIAM S. PAL, SPECIAL TO MONTREAL GAZETTE More from Mariam S. Pal, Special to Montreal Gazette Published on: August 23, 2015 One day last summer, I ran into my friend Caroline at the grocery store. My cart was filled with two cases of large canning jars. Caroline asked, “What’s up with all those jars?” “Pickling!” […]

12 jars of Texas pickles: Some we relished, others were no big dill

Emma CourtThe Dallas Morning News @emmacourt ecourt@dallasnews.com Running through a cool sprinkler, hearing the sizzle of a burger on the grill, seeing the faint outline of a flip flop tan: Of the summer traditions, there’s none quite like biting into the perfect pickle. That summer staple — which uses fermentation to preserve the cucumber crop — […]