bold and bright, the perfect foil for pierogies or brats or pretzels, these simple to make pickled onions can be made right in the mason jar
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Quick Pickled Rhubarb and Pickled Celery Salad with fennel seeds and goat cheese
So simple, so delicious. Crisp and salty sweet with just a hint of fennel.
The recipe below is for the pickled rhubarb and pickled celery with fennel. The salad is just those plus a little goat cheese for contrast. Use the pickled rhubarb and celery in salads like this or with lettuce if you insist.
Quick Pickled Radishes (and scallions too!)
It’s the little things that can bring it all together, a garnish, a side. Of course the big things matter, the entreé is what gives strength and fills us up and helps us carry on but that is a matter of survival. Pickled radishes? They are a matter of style. Want some things to serve […]
Onion Salad with pomegranate and cilantro
The pomegranate seeds fooled him. “It’s dessert,” he said. “I’ll eat it last.” It’s onions,” I said. “Onion salad, try it now.” He waited. He ate onion salad for dessert. I like it with rice. As a side for dumplings or grilled shrimp. Not dessert. Salting the onions and allowing them to sweat it out […]
a peck of pickled peppers: sweet hot cherry bombs
These easy to make and easy to scale pickled sweet hot cherry bomb peppers are my go to put on everything condiment. Hot and just a little sweet they add a burst of color and flavor to pizza, pasta, salads, or a a charcuterie platter. You can make a single batch- just one jar!- as […]
Green Cherry Tomato Refrigerator Pickles
Bright autumn leaves, the sun low in the sky, the desire to hoard foodstuffs for winter, a sudden craving for soup, not writing that novel but feeling guilty about it every single day. It must be November. Green Cherry Tomato Refrigerator Pickles Another summer over and it’s time to pickle the last of […]
harissa with fresh roasted peppers and preserved lemon
Bright and briny with a subtle heat and just a little sweet this homemade harissa has what I want for a catch-all hot sauce and condiment for everything from eggs and sandwiches to party dip or pasta. I spend my free fall time storing up for winter- pickling green tomatoes, plotting for thanksgiving, making hot […]
When Life Gives You Peppers- Make Hot Sauce
A motley crew of hot peppers have been hanging out in my produce drawer for a few weeks now. Top of the to-do list two weekends running. Today I had enough. Today I couldn’t take it anymore. Today I made homemade hot sauce. I’m giving you a recipe but realize that my ingredients were what […]
