Seared sea salt and soy ahi tuna poke over rice with pickled cabbage, gochujang mayo, and fried shallots. This poke bowl recipe contains two of my all-time favorite poke bowl toppings, pickled cabbage, and crispy fried shallots. The cabbage is quick-pickled by mixing it with sugar and salt to draw out any liquid and then […]
Tag: pickles
Pickled Peppers
Sweet green pasilla peppers in a spicy garlic pickle brine. The pasilla pepper plants I started this spring are loaded with peppers. Too loaded actually! There are so many that they aren’t growing to full size. I decided to harvest and pickle half the peppers so the plant can put its energy into the other […]
Dirty Martini Pickles
Dirty martini in pickle form. Yes, please! These cucumber pickles are brined with lemon, gin, and a little bit of green olive. The secret to these pickles is the olives. Well, maybe the gin too. But definitely the olives. I mean, what’s a dirty martini without olives? I really wanted to get that olive flavor […]
Spicy Pickled Okra
Enormous farmers market okra pickled in a spicy garlic brine. A delicious accompaniment to salads, sandwiches, and bloody marys! I found the most enormous okra I had ever seen at the farmers market the other day. They were bright green and begging to come home with me. I couldn’t disappoint them. So in my bag, […]
Peach Pickles
Do you ever get so excited to see the seasons new produce that you forget that the first harvest is usually picked a little under-ripe? Well, that’s how these pickled peaches were born! After the excitement wore off and I started thinking about what kind of deliciousness I was going to make. I realized the […]
Dillicious Pickles
Pickles are the main reason I planted cucumber and dill in my garden this year. Dill pickles were, of course, at the top of my list to make. With a variety of uses, including homemade tartar sauce, these pickles are a classic pantry staple. This recipe makes three cups of brine and 2-quart jars of […]