Salt cured duck breast ham. It is so easy to create this delicious salt-cured duck ham. All you need is salt, duck, and time. Now, just because a recipe is simple doesn’t mean there aren’t a couple of things to be aware of when preparing it. If using larger or smaller breasts, the curing and […]
Welcome to the first post in a week-long series on duck. Today, I am going to show you how to breakdown a whole duck, render down the excess skin and fat and make confit with that fat and the leg-thigh portion of the duck. The picture above is the duck completely broken down. Check out […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
