I think I have finally entered the secret brotherhood of homemade cornichon and gherkin makers. My specific goal was not sweet gherkins (which are the right size but way too sweet) or just small versions of a dill pickle but what I wanted is the intensely sour french cornichon that graces my favourite protein delivery [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cucumbers’
Seed Order Arrives
Friends, I hope this is the only time I resort to writing about my mail. This is a special kind of mail, though, yesterday my main seed order arrived. Everyone is rambling about their tiresome first signs of spring so let’s just call this the first signs of good food to come. Most of the [...]
Wild Pickles
I have obtained two of the necessary “ingredients” for another round of wild-fermented dill pickles this summer. Also, I picked up the ever-important cucumbers today. The Willowtree Farms stand at Mel Lastman Square had good looking cucumbers at five dollars for one those (3L, maybe?) baskets. Two of these (ten dollars worth) yielded 2670 g [...]
Mustard Pickle
It’s not cucumber season yet but Kat and I are always yearning for different pickled produce so when we came across a package of cucumbers at Loblaws on the half-off rack I decided to take the opportunity to try out a potential recipe. Ths is a small batch for a recipe that we may use [...]
