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Posted in Middle Eastern Food, Pickles and Canning, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetarian on Oct 17th, 2010
When I came home with a small pile of beautiful tiny eggplants, my husband made an emergency phone call to his mother in Egypt to ask her for her pickled eggplant recipe. I have never seen him waiting so eagerly for food as while he spent a whole half hour waiting for the eggplants to [...]
Posted in Pickles and Canning on Aug 8th, 2010
No tool in my weight loss arsenal has served me as well as pickles. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve craved potato chips or some other salty fried food and found that craving easily satisfied with a snack of strongly flavored, vinegary pickles. I try to use pickle recipes with less salt [...]
Posted in Pickles and Canning, Sandwiches, Seafood on Aug 5th, 2010
I never imagined that I would find myself pickling fish, but a couple of weeks ago when I found myself with an extra salmon fillet on my hands I recalled noticing a pickled salmon recipe in Linda Ziedrich’s The Joy of Pickling. I quickly decided to give it a try. After salting the salmon in [...]
Posted in Pickles and Canning, Recipes, Salads, Vegetarian on Jul 29th, 2010
The first time I made Linda Ziedrich’s Moroccan Pickled Beets from The Joy of Pickling I simply added them to a green salad. The salad was wonderful, but the moment a piece of beet crossed paths with a chunk of feta, inspiration struck. This salad was the result. 1 recipe Moroccan Pickled Beets (about 2 [...]
Posted in Middle Eastern Food, Pickles and Canning, Recipes on Jul 28th, 2010
Until a month ago I had never eaten beets. When I received a bunch in my CSA share, I was at a loss as to what to do with them. As I’ve been somewhat obsessed with pickling lately I flipped to the index of one of my very favorite cookbooks: Linda Ziedrich’s The Joy of [...]
Posted in Pickles and Canning, Seafood on Jul 21st, 2010
I expected five for dinner the other night. When I received word that one of the guests wouldn’t be coming, I decided to pickle his fish. In her book The Joy of Pickling Linda Ziedrich includes a recipe for pickled salmon. The recipe calls for 2 1/2 pounds of fish. I have never eaten any [...]
