Plate of leftover salads: beet and tomatoes, corn salad. Preparation time: 5 minutes Shopping: none We never tire of having a container of our beet salad in the refrigerator. Fresh beets from the garden, tomatoes and red onion seasoned with extra-virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar is big on flavor and utterly refreshing, especially […]
A number of pickling recipes call for leaves of some sort in the brine–grape leaves, oak leaves, cherry leaves, black currant leaves–on the theory that the leaves make the pickles more crisp. I have no reason to doubt this is true, so I include the leaves. For these fermented dill pickles, Helen Witty, in “Fancy […]
You may be wondering what that milky liquid is my cucumber slices are floating in. That would be “pickling lime,” something I drove all the way to the farm supply in Annapolis for a couple of years ago after spending half a day on the telephone trying to find some closer to the District of […]
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