Until recently, I thought there was only one type of chow chow—the furry breed of Mongolian dog that Martha Stewart adores. As it turns out, there's another breed of chow-chow, differentiated by a mere hyphen. This one is a pickled...
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Clockwise from top: Napa Cabbage, Daikon, and Carrots; Cucumber; Daikon and Carrot. I don't know why I chose late July of all times to start a biscuit-baking, cannelés-experimenting week, but I did. The temperature in my non air-conditioned apartment...
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I love pretty much anything pickled, cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms, watermelon rind, okra, even pickled eggs. I have to say that my favorite pickled item is the onion. Those little pickled pearl onions in my jar of cornichons disappear way before...
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These simple pickles from The Asian Grill are served at some Chinese restaurants before the meal to whet the appetite; they're also perfect when paired with the pork patty recipe featured earlier this week in a homemade banh mi. Pickling...
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In the fairytales and adventure stories of my childhood, the first thing a character had to do before she embarked on a journey, whether she was a princess or a milkmaid, was pack a small but sustaining bundle of bread...
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I know I usually write about ice cream, but Ed's recent diet posts have inspired me to contribute something about pickles. To me, aside from the whole sodium content thing, they are the ultimate guilt-free snacking food: crunchy, juicy, and...
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