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Corn Relish and Sweet-Hot Pickle Relish
July 23, 2017 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Corn

Corn Relish and Sweet-Hot Pickle Relish

Mastering hot-pack canning with Marisa from Food in Jars This is the stuff of state fairs and homebodies. We transform […]

Green Gazpacho with Garlic Scapes and Pea Shoots
June 18, 2017 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Cucumbers

Green Gazpacho with Garlic Scapes and Pea Shoots

On the season’s first 95-degree day, everyone clamored for gazpacho. The quizzical looks when I served it told me they […]

Pickled Sanditas à la Cornichon
September 22, 2014 4 Comments by 200birdies Cucumbers

Pickled Sanditas à la Cornichon

Sanditas (“little watermelons” in Spanish) are also called Sandia de Ratón (“mouse melon”) or the unglamorous and misleading ”Mexican Sour […]

Cucumber Salad: Dragon’s Eggs and Suyo Long
August 10, 2014 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Cucumbers

Cucumber Salad: Dragon’s Eggs and Suyo Long

Be adventurous if you have the luxury of a garden, even one in a pot. That’s why I’m growing dragon’s […]

Korean Summer Pickles: Cucumber & Chiles, plus Garlic Scapes
July 20, 2014 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Asian vegetables

Korean Summer Pickles: Cucumber & Chiles, plus Garlic Scapes

I got on a roll. With a bucket full of garlic scapes and one successful Korean pickle, I knew there […]

Pickled Mexican Sour Gherkins
September 8, 2013 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Cucumbers

Pickled Mexican Sour Gherkins

I had no idea what these were when I saw them in a bowl at the market. Speckled, green and […]

Refrigerator Dills
July 31, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Cucumbers

Refrigerator Dills

This is the chicken’s way out. Not real cowardice about making cucumber pickles in a crock in the basement like […]

Warm as a Cucumber: Cooked with Tarragon
April 30, 2012 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Cucumbers

Warm as a Cucumber: Cooked with Tarragon

Raw or cooked: that is the toss-up. Some vegetables are most commonly eaten raw — cucumbers, lettuce, radishes for example […]

Pickle Projects: Garlic Scapes, Sliced Dills and Sweet-Hots
July 30, 2011 2 Comments by 200birdies Cucumbers

Pickle Projects: Garlic Scapes, Sliced Dills and Sweet-Hots

Every week for the past 6 weeks, I’ve put up a small batch of pickles and now I have enough […]

Summer Cucumber Salads
July 10, 2011 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Cucumbers

Summer Cucumber Salads

Dill fireworks over a cool cucumber salad made a festive presentation for the Fourth of July. A salad that is […]

Cucumber Salad with Pickled Spring Onions
June 28, 2011 Leave a Comment by 200birdies Cucumbers

Cucumber Salad with Pickled Spring Onions

About a month ago, just as spring onions were starting to bulb, I picked up several bunches of scallion-like specimens […]

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