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Category Archives: pickling

Holy Habaneros!

WOW. It’s September!? Where did the time go? I never imagined back in February when I first read Molly Wizenberg’s book, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, that in just a few months I’d relate to it so deeply. Literally, about 5 months after finishing it, my life was turned into [...]


September 02, 2011

What da dilly, yo?

Busta Rhymes & dilly beans. A natural combination, no? So yeah. Dilly beans. As a native New Yorker, where most of my young-adult time was spent pounding pavement in Manhattan, either uptown by the Met or downtown in Chelsea & the Fashion District, not quite growing my own vegetables/living in a rural area/reading up about [...]


August 26, 2011

Pickling life away.

One jar at a time. Or two jars at a time. Did you attend the Pickling Party today? If not, there’s still time! Get yourself something & pickle it. Zucchini, beets, cucumbers, carrots, asparagus… anything can be pickled. If you never pickled before, maybe now’s the time to start. “Say hello to my little friend…” [...]


August 10, 2011

“I wish I had a nickel to buy a pickle.”

That was an old song my grandma used to sing when I was a kid. I always thought it was the silliest song I ever heard, but sadly I never asked her where exactly she heard it. I know she went to Salvation Army summer camp (which she HATED and refused to go again) one [...]


August 05, 2011

I got myself in a pickle, again.

Not really, don’t worry. I just made some pickles, that’s all. The only “pickle” I might be in is making too much preserved/canned/jarred items- now that I’ve started, I can’t stop. Before I start talking about pickles, though, I want to wish Jay luck on playing his first official “gig” this weekend with his band [...]


July 23, 2011