Pickle-Flavored Ice Cream? It’s Hot!

By: Shira Feder

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Pickle flavored Ice Cream  is something you don’t want to miss!

Pregnant women may find themselves overjoyed at the idea of the two most common cravings — pickles and ice cream — combined. Head to the Upper West Side’s Lucky Pickle Dumpling Co., where you can get a pickle flavored soft-serve ice cream for a mere $5 if you’re feeling adventurous. The restaurant itself is a fast food place with seats for you and fourteen other epicureans living on the edge.
The siren call for food Instagrammers has been sounded. This is your opportunity to pose gleefully with the smooth, creamy, acidic taste test that proves no food is outside of your comfort zone. Live your best pickle-oriented lifestyle as you lick the tip of that green culinary barometer.

Jacob Hadjigeorgis, of Jacob’s Pickle and Maison Pickle, is on a mission to remind all New Yorkers of the torrid love affair they once had with the pickle. Has the time come to revive that love affair? Get out of the way, we’re hungry and we’re cruising for that sour, creamy taste of a pickle flavored soft-serve.
Other menu offerings include sriracha pickle slaw and a pickle cowboy t-shirt.

How Did The Pickle Become A Jewish Food Staple?

By: Shira Feder

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The Pickles a Jewish food staple.

 

The pickle! That fermented flavor, that solidly sour mouthfeel, that palate-cleansing post hotdog taste. The bright green, with its violent crunch! How we Jews love our pickles! But how did this love affair begin?
Immediately I think of a time when Jewish pickle vendors hawked their wares on the streets of the Lower East Side. Only true history buffs will remember the pickle wars, where vendors competed for a monopoly on the pickle. These bold Jewish immigrants made the pickle synonymous with Jewish food, but to find out who loved the pickle first, we have to go back further than that. (This pickle history timeline reveals that pickles have been around for literally hundreds of years, buy we’re aren’t going back quite that far.)

It’s an Ashkenormative love story that begins in Eastern Europe. The Jewish ghettos were unsanitary. The winters were long. Fresh food was scarce. Eating well was expensive. There was only one solution.
It all started with pickling, that most Eastern European of habits. To get through the long and grueling winter months, food had to be pickled. Everything could be pickled, from lemons to carrots, with varying degrees of culinary success.

 

Jalapeño Popper Hot Dog Bites

By Drum Digital

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(Want to whip up a quick? We’ve got you covered with these Jalapeño Popper Hot Dog Bites.)

 

Ingredients
15ml (1T) olive oil
6 slices Eskort Streaky Bacon, chopped into pieces

1 roll puff pastry
1 tub (230g) cream cheese, softened
5ml (1t) garlic powder
200g cheddar cheese
salt
ground black pepper
1 packet (380g) Eskort American Hot Dogs Regular
8 jalapeños, ends and seeds removed and halved lengthwise
1 egg, beaten
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a large baking sheet with nonstick spray.
Heat olive oil in a frying pan and fry bacon until crispy. Remove from heat, drain on paper towel and set aside.
In a bowl combine cream cheese, garlic powder, bacon and cheddar.
Season with salt and pepper and stir until all ingredients are well combined.
Roll out the pastry on a flour-strewn surface and spread the cream cheese mixture evenly onto the puff pastry. Slice the pastry into strips.
Cut the American Hot Dogs to suit the length of the jalapeños. Pair a sausage with a jalapeño slice and roll it up in a strip of pastry until covered. Repeat until all the jalapeño slices are used.
Place the pastry rolls on a baking tray and brush with egg wash.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
Remove from oven and serve warm.

Pickle Day celebrated by food aficionados of Indore

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Pickle Day is celebrated in India

 

Achaar Day was celebrated on April 22, in accordance with the Indian Food Observance Days that has been started around a year back.In the western countries days like National Cheesecake Day or a National Mango Pie day are common food day observances. Similarly, this concept started by Author and Consultant Rushina Munshaw Ghildayal, has spread pan India. It started with Mumbai and Delhi, but now cities like Indore and Bangalore are also participating in the same. Chef Amit Pamnani, heads the Indore edition of the Indian Food Observance Days celebrations. He has already organised Pulao Biryani Day, Dal Diwas, Subzi Tarkari Din previously. Initially he started by inviting people at his own home through social media; these days became so successful that now these events are gladly hosted by Restaurants and cafes of Indore.

 

Achaar day was celebrated at Romba South, the new south Indian restaurant in Indore. People from all walks of life brought with themselves a portion of their favourite homemade achaar and these included Chefs, Bloggers, Homemakers, Restaurant owners working professionals. There were interesting types of Achaar brought by them which included Fermented Sindhi water pickle with zero oil, A pineapple pickle, a sweet and sour mango pickle, dryfruits pickle, Orange rind pickle, Chilli pickle, Nimbu and ginger amongst many more. Satyendra and Prachi, owners of restaurant, provided the enthusiasts with Dal and Rice to have with the pickles.

It’s a big dill! Sonic goes sour with a new pickle-flavored slush

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By: Bryanna Cappadona

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When it comes to pickles, we thought we’d seen it all.
But it turns out, when it comes to the tangy, sour, salty, briny treat, we’ve barely scratched the surface. Now, Sonic Drive-In is getting in on America’s pickle obsession

On Friday, the fast food chain revealed that it’s releasing a pickle juice slush this summer and it will likely be available in restaurants by early June.
“Quite simply, pickle juice is fun,” Scott Uehlein, Sonic’s vice president of product innovation and development, told TODAY Food via email. “Nothing says summer like a Sonic slush.”
The new flavor will be served at 3,500 Sonic locations nationwide. According to Food & Wine, which got a sneak preview taste test of the new slush at Sonic’s Oklahoma City headquarters, the drink’s syrup has a “sweet and tangy” punch to it.

Sonic’s new roll out is just the latest in a line of increasingly unusual pickle-flavored refreshers

 

 

 

 

Pork Roast With Jalapeno Gravy

By:The New York Times

Pork roast with roasted jalapeño gravy Picture by : by Melina Hammer/The New York Times.

 

Yield: 8 servings
Total time: 1 1/4 hours
Ingredients
For the roast

1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon granulated garlic
1 tablespoon granulated onion
1 kg – 1,3 kg boneless pork loin, with a good layer of fat on it
For the gravy
3 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
2 jalapenos
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 cup half-and-half (this is a mixture of equal parts light cream and low fat milk)
2 cups pork stock or chicken stock, preferably homemade
1 teaspoon salt, plus more if needed

Method
Heat oven to 475 degrees. Mix together salt, pepper, garlic and onion seasonings.
Place the pork on a rack set in a roasting pan and sprinkle the roast with the spice mixture, rubbing it lightly so it adheres to the meat.
Roast for 30 to 40 minutes or until the pork reaches an internal temperature of 145 degrees. If the fat begins to get too dark, tent with foil.
While the roast is cooking, make a roux for the gravy by melting the butter in a small saucepan set over medium heat.
Add the flour all at once and whisk vigorously until smooth. When the mixture thins and starts to bubble, reduce the heat to low.
Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, whisking slowly, until the mixture smells nutty and toasty and is still light-colored. Cook for 2 more minutes, stirring occasionally, then set aside and let cool.
When the roast is done, cover and let it rest for at least 10 minutes.
Reduce the oven to 450 degrees. Place the jalapenos in a small pan, brush with oil and roast for 6 minutes, or until soft.
Remove the stems and some or all of the seeds and membranes, depending on how hot the peppers are and how hot you want the gravy. Dice the jalapenos.
Place the half-and-half, stock, salt and jalapenos in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.
Quickly reduce heat to medium. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until slightly reduced.
Stir in 4 tablespoons of the roux and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, whisking continually, until the sauce is thickened and bubbly.
Stir in a little more roux if needed to reach the desired thickness and, if desired, any accumulated juices from the roast.
Slice the roast, cover in gravy and serve

 

YES THAST’S A HOT DOG IN A PICKLE-MEET THE GRAND RAPIDS DILL DOG

By:Eric Meier

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Meet the Dill Dog, a hot dog wrapped in a pickle. The creation comes from the wiener wizards at 1 Bun Restaurant in Grand Rapids.
The dill dog is exactly like it sounds, a hot dog where the bun is replaced by a pickle.
1 Bun, on South Division in Grand Rapids, sells the dill dog for $2.20. The photo above appears to be a coney-style Dill Dog with chili, cheese and onion. I even seen some Heinz “Chicago Dog Sauce” better known as ketchup on that dill dog.

The Dill Dog appears to be a champion of pickle efficiency, by removing the wedge from the pickle to place the dog, the remnant pickle piece creates the prefect pickle-spear accouterment.
The menu at 1 Dog also includes burger dogs, corn dogs and a sloppy J.

Oreo Cookies Are the Real Pickle Pairing Your Taste Buds Deserve

By:Maxine Wally

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Sour, sweet, creamy, and crunchy

Ever try an Oreo cookie with a pickle slice on top? It might sound like the stuff of pregnancy cravings, but it’s a sour, sweet, creamy, and crunchy treat that satisfies all regions of your tastebuds. Consider The New York Times’ pickle and peanut butter sandwich on white bread, which divided the Internet last week, dead in the ground.

The tart snap of the pickle balances the sweetness of an Oreo, providing an incredible amount of juiciness to an oft-dry cookie crying out for companionship. There’s also a range of flavor possibilities: Don’t like dill? Top the cookie with a bread and butter chip. Perhaps you’re looking for more creaminess—pair that slice with a Double Stuffed.
The combo was born out of desperation. I couldn’t sleep one night and found myself scrolling mindlessly into an Instagram cooking video hole: disembodied hands under birds’ eye lenses, mise en place in perfectly portioned glass bowls. Somewhere in that hole, I came across a post boasting the benefits of the odd and tasty delight.
Both revolted and intrigued at once, I knew I had to try it.

At a dinner party the following evening, I gathered the courage to bring up the pairing to the remaining guests still hanging out and drinking wine. It just so happened that our hosts had a pack of Oreo Thins and a half-empty jar of spicy pickles on deck. Standing at a butcher block in the center of the kitchen, my friend sliced and crowned each cookie with a dripping sliver. We tossed them into our mouths and, almost in unison, emitted the sounds of our approval.
The hot, vinegar-laced pickle both cut through the sugar and added a succulent dimension to the Oreo. We chewed and nodded, nodded and chewed, until finally I said: “That’s good. OK, that’s really good.”

So meet your new favorite snack, and relish the reactions of friends who think you’ve finally lost it. And if you decide the combo’s not for you—well, now you’ve got pickles and Oreos in the cupboard. You’re welcome.

 

 

Try This Twist on Jalapeno Poppers

By:Jordan Spence

The Alpena News

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It’s not very often you can indulge like this, but these Jalapeno Poppers are worth it.

 

I like to try new spins on classic foods and these jalapeno popper wonton phyllo cups are delicious. I love all the different components of a jalapeno popper; bacon, cheese, jalapenos and crispy coating.
Due to the fact they can be kind of a pain to assemble I only order them in restaurants. So this is an easier alternative to make at home.
I especially like that I don’t have to deep fry anything.
The filling for the cups is easy to make a head of time so then all you have to do is assemble them and cook them right before you eat them.
I made sure to add a little salt, pepper and other herbs to flavor the cream cheese mixture. Whenever I use jalapenos in food like this roast them in the oven to deepen their flavor. Other things like scallions can be added as well.

JALAPENO POPPER WONTON  PHYLLO CUP

12 wonton wrappers
4 oz. cream cheese,
softened
1/2 c. sour cream
12 oz. bacon cooked & crumbled (reserve 2 Tbsp.)
1 c. shredded cheddar
cheese (reserve 2 Tbsp.)
3-4 jalapenos seeded and
chopped (*for more spice,
do not remove all the seeds)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray muffin pan with cooking spray.
Place one wonton wrapper in each muffin cup; bake 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool slightly.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, stir together cream cheese, sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and chopped jalapenos. Spoon filling into wonton cups, then sprinkle with reserved bacon and cheese. Return to oven and bake for an additional 8-10 minutes, until wontons are golden brown and cheese is melted.

Gummy Pickles Are a Thing Now, But Should We Be Sweet or Sour on Them?

By:Michael Walsh  nerdist.com

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Gummy Pickles

You know what’s great? Pickles. Also fantastic? Gummy bears. These are not controversial opinions. But like a mad scientist with a god complex, the folks at Vat19 have taken those two wonderful foods and combined them into one strange hybrid. And we don’t know if we should be sweet or sour about it, because what in the name of Dr. Frankenstein should we make of a gummy pickle that actually tastes like a pickle?

This new unusual treat from Vat19 and The Gummy Bear Guy, that we first learned about at Geekologie, isn’t just a gummy dessert in pickle form. We wouldn’t be confused about how to feel about that, because as gummy enthusiasts we’d be excited for a gelatinous candy we could really bite into it. The issue is this is not a sweet-tasting treat.
“This all-gummy ‘vegetable’ is flavored like a sour dill pickle with the chewy texture of gummy. While still slightly sweet, the predominantly pickle flavor and realistic appearance will trick your taste buds into thinking you plucked it right from the jar.”
I hope my tastes buds aren’t that stupid, especially because they say this also has a hint of green apple flavor, something I’ve never tasted when eating any sort of pickle. But just because this is weird doesn’t mean it doesn’t taste good, or that I wouldn’t enjoy it; just that I don’t know. Fortunately, if you’re also curious, you can order one of these gummy gherkins from Vat19 for $5.99.