By: FOX4News.com Staff Chef Tre Wilcox with Tre Wilcox Cooking Concepts shares the recipe for a great post-workout meal. Jalapeno Marinated Chicken 3/4 cup olive oil 3 each jalapeno chile 12 each garlic cloves 3 peeled shallots 1 each bunch cilantro, washed 2 tablespoons cumin seeds 2 teaspoons lime juice 2 teaspoons cracked black peppercorns […]
Adapted from myrecipes.com 6 cups thinly sliced pickling cucumbers (about 2 pounds) 2 cups thinly sliced red onion 1 1/2 cups white vinegar 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds 1/2 teaspoon celery seeds 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 4 garlic cloves, […]
By Donna Evans, Food Columnist – Pine & Lake Echo Journal It has been a typical gardening year. The growing started slowly and then there was an explosion of ripe vegetables – dozens of cucumbers, hundreds of green beans and scads of tomatoes. A long time ago I spent quite a bit of time […]
by Sherry Greenfield – Herald-Mail Media KNOXVILLE, Md. — A Knoxville-area man thinks he may now hold the record for the world’s largest cucumber. This summer, 72-year-old Butch Taulton, watched as a cucumber he planted in his garden during the first week of June grew from the size of a pencil to a mammoth-size vegetable. […]
Virtually the entire crop of Ontario’s cucumbers used to make pickles and relish are purchased by a firm in Wisconsin. By Jennifer Wells – Hamilton Spectator THAMESVILLE, ONT. — It’s hot — a real scorcher — and the parched dirt kicks up underfoot as the farmer leads the way to a cucumber field that is […]
Dawn Morin-Boucher, Free Press contributor – Burlington Free Press My husband Dan used to be a serious meat-and-potatoes man. He’d happily eat them every day, alternating frozen peas and canned corn niblets to shake things up. Over the years, I’ve tried to vary the routine with raw and cooked fresh veggies, forages — […]
Gary Black gblack@newsminer.com – newsminer.com Editor’s note: Chef at the Market is a program in which local chefs use Alaska ingredients to prepare a meal at the Tanana Valley Farmers Market. The program, now in its fifth season, is the result of a partnership between the Fairbanks Economic Development Corporation, the Rasmuson Foundation, […]
By Andrea Weigl – The Raleigh News & Observer You will never think the same about yellow squash once you taste these pickles. I make these every summer and anyone who receives them is soon asking for another jar. These pickles are great on pulled pork or ham and cheese sandwiches. Enjoy! The recipe […]
by Virginia Chamlee and Dana Hatic – Eater Netflix and dill? Hot dog, sour cream and cheddar, strawberry cake: Innovations in potato chip flavors sailed past barbecue long, long ago. Today, there are chips flavored with wasabi, hot sauce, brie cheese, and cappuccino — but none of these flavors have taken off like dill pickle-flavored chips. […]
By Doris Reynolds – Naples Daily News What did Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Napoleon, Aristotle, Andy Griffith, Elvis Presley and Thomas Jefferson have in common? They were all passionate pickle mavens with a craving for the pungent perfect puckerer. Long before spas, beauty salons, wellness centers and gyms existed, Queen Cleopatra turned to pickles to […]