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A couple of different easy pickles for Taco Tuesday (or any day). For the escabeche, pretty much all you do is fill a 1-gallon crock 3/4 full with sliced jalapeños, peeled/sliced carrots, quartered peeled shallots, and peeled smashed garlic cloves, then add a few bay …
This was a wacky experiment that went exactly as I’d hoped. I soaked, boiled, and soaked again a bag of dried bracken fern (aka fernbrake, gosari, etc.) and then fermented it in a 2% brine with Sichuan peppercorn, garlic, facing heaven chiles (from Chengdu), and …
Ever wanted to learn a few basics of home fermentation, like making your own Jewish deli-style dill pickles, grainy mustard, or even kimchi? I can teach you how! I’m offering basic classes all summer long in my beautiful historic farmhouse kitchen right in the middle …
Made a lovely selection of zakuski for afternoon tea with @onstad and @lifeandmarmalade yesterday — from the top: roasted peppers in adjika and krestianskaya sausage (both store-bought from Roman Russian Market), white cheddar, mustard, turmeric pickled eggs, pickled beets, homegrown cornichons, dark rye, tomato-cucumber salad, …
Fridge-clearing yachaejeon (vegetable pancake; center) made of gai lan, carrots, red bell pepper, zucchini, shimeji mushrooms, onions, and garlic chives (from the garden!) in a batter of flour and backyard eggs, seasoned with sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger and garlic. The rest of the stuff: …
All summer long I felt like I was hardly getting any canning done, but now, looking at my shelves, my heart is as full as my pantry. #canning #putuporshutup #growyourown #preservation #pantry A post shared by Heather Arndt Anderson (@heatherarndtanderson) on Oct 3, 2017 at …