Hey folks! It’s National Pickle Day! A day devoted to pickling is designed for preserving folks like us. It’s the perfect time to make pickles, eat pickles, or decide what homemade pickled items we want to give as a gifts. Almost anything can be pickled. A pickle is: “An edible product, such as a cucumber, [...]
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Recipe Spotlight: The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook
We are honored that Pat Tanumihardja has shared with us a sneak peak of two of her recipes from her upcoming book, The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook: Home Cooking from Asian American Kitchens, (Sasquatch Books, October 2009). Check them out! Chinese Cucumber and Carrot Pickles Cabbage Kimchi
Recipe Spotlight: Lucy Norris’s Mixed Summer Pickles
Lucy Norris, author of Pickled: Fruits, Roots, More… Preserving a World of Tastes and Traditions (2003), has kindly shared her recipe for: Mixed Summer Pickles Check it out!
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Farm
I knew I would love the Nitty Gritty Dirty Farm long before I saw it. How could you not? Its proprietors—a newly minted minister and a mandolin-playing music teacher—had found each other in midlife and set up housekeeping and farming in Harris, Minnesota. To a California gardener like me, farming in Minnesota sounds daunting enough. [...]
