This small-batch recipe for pickled carrots with dill packs a great dilly crunch! Add them as a quick side-vegetable on a busy night, pack a few to snack on during the day, or chop them and throw them in a tuna, egg, or salmon salad. What is Hot Pack Preserving This method of preserving...
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You’ll find that this corn relish is a very versatile condiment to have handy! It pairs well with everything! Top tacos with it, add it to a dip, kick up some grilled chicken, fish, or pork by serving with corn relish. Serve it alone with tortilla chips, or stir the corn relish into a...
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Updated – March 15, 2021 Asparagus season is upon us and excited for this quick & easy pickled asparagus recipe! What we love about this recipe is that you can adapt it to include more than just asparagus. Throw in that extra bunch of asparagus you won’t have time to grill, or the beans...
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(Updated June 29, 2020) This Pickled Jalapeno Pepper Recipe from Mrs. Wages, offers a great way to enjoy Jalapeno peppers and not suffer from the heat in the process! They still offer a kick, but pickling them mellows out the heat. Add the pickled jalapeno peppers to tacos, nachos, or pulled pork sandwiches. Top...
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Excerpted from Ferment Your Vegetables by Amanda Feifer (Fair Winds Press, October 2015). In a pretty foolproof process, radish pickles remain an especially easy first step. I always have a jar of plain radish pickles fermenting at my house, simply because they’re so easy to make and taste so good that we tend to eat the...
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(Updated May, 2023) A few years ago, we hosted a hands-on canning class, taught by Marisa McClellan of Food in Jars. The class was on how to use low temperature pasteurization for pickles. If you aren’t familiar with this preserving method, we’ve got all the details below. What is low-temperature pasteurization? It is a...
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(Updated – July 27, 2020) If you’re looking for things to do with cucumbers, we have the answer! Large cucumbers are often hard to transform into crispy pickle spears and are often quite seedy, but still have much potential! I recently had some very large cucumbers. My initial plan was to pickle them, but...
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(Updated July 1, 2020) We don’t all have the space in our refrigerators to be squirrelling away “Refrigerator Pickles” to last us the year. Some recipes call for a “pickling agent”, but if you’re adverse to that, or if you really want to increase your crispy odds, here are some tips and recipes that...
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