How to Make Homemade Vinegar
Pucker up, puckerpuss! We’re about to get sour. I wrote this really in-depth piece on making homemade vinegar for The Blender, the blog of Williams Sonoma, and I just wanted …
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Korean Spinach with Sesame Banchan Recipe from Asian Pickles Korea
Spinach with Sesame (Sigeumchi Namul) (from Asian Pickles Korea) Is there someone in your house who won’t touch their greens? This pickle-ish, pungent side dish is a way to make …
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“Wasabi” Pickled Carrots Recipe – from Asian Pickles Japan
Why am I using “quotes?” Because while this is bursting with wasabi flavor, there is no actual wasabi in it. Real wasabi is hard to come by. And the stuff …
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Chewy Oven Dried Orange Slices with Toasted Almond, Chile, and Szechuan Peppercorn
I have talked about oven drying fruit before, but what can I say? I heart fruit with salt. And fruit with spice? Even better. Fruit with nuts? A classic. Smash …
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Beer Brine Pickle Recipe
I’m teaching a class tonight at food and art community space 18 Reasons on Curious and Peculiar Pickles – whey pickles, Kool Aid pickles, rice bran pickles; pickles made with …
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Pickled Burdock Root Recipe – Bonus Tsukemono from Asian Pickles Japan e-book
Help! I can’t stop pickling with Asian ingredients! My own personal 12-step issues aside, this is a tasty “quickle” (quick + pickle) using a simple preparation on an ingredient avid …
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Kosher Dill Pickle Recipe
You’re on your own for the corned beef and the herring. But if it’s a Jewish deli-style Kosher dill pickle recipe you seek, you have found it. Warning: Fermenting things …
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Homemade Candy Cane Recipe
We’re used to buying cardboard boxloads of factory drone candy canes that are uniform, neatly wrapped, shapely, laden with high fructose corn syrup, and positively soulless. But me – I’m …
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