These pickles turn out softer than I would normally like, but they’re full of flavor from the vinegar, sugar and pickling spices. Getting to the canning part takes two days of first soaking in a salt brine, then rinsing and soaking in the pickling brine. The recipe comes from “Putting Food By,” by Jane Greene, […]
Fried eggs with sauteed beet greens. Preparation time: 15 minutes Shopping: none I can hardly think of a vegetable easier or more delectable then freshly harvested beet greens. I’d been eyeing one particular Franken-beet in our garden. It was unexpectedly huge, some kind of mutant, with greens towering over the rest of its mates. I […]
I didn’t select this recipe from Martha Stewart because I’m particularly in love with it. In fact, this is the first time I’ve made it. But it does represent a certain variety of pickling–brining the cukes and then refrigerating. There’s no canning or long life involved. As you can see, I used cucumbers that had […]
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