#easy pickling

Thanks to Clean Plates, I’m sharing even more about my new favorite cabbage pickle. Learn to make fermented and quick curtido.

Can you believe that just 1 year ago I announced the release of my cookbook, The Complete Guide to Pickling? More than 6,000 copies have sold over the last year, and I’ve received such amazing feedback from readers. I’m particularly thrilled that I can continue to share some of my favorite recipes from the 125-strong collection. Thanks to Clean Plates, you can now learn more about—and how to…

Today I make recipes from The Complete Guide to Pickling for my own enjoyment. Open my fridge, and you’ll find jars of onion pickles. Read more about preserving onions and learn to make Apple-Sweetened Yellow Onions.

Until I wrote the The Complete Guide to Pickling, I rarely pickled onions on their own. I dropped slices into plenty of other pickle jars, from refrigerator zucchini to canned bread-and-butter cucumbers to fermented kimchi. They weren’t just garnish and always ended up on sandwiches or in breakfast potatoes. But I rarely devoted pantry or fridge space to jars of pickled onions. Once I started…

A simple chili paste is cheap, takes just 5 minutes to make, and lasts weeks in the fridge. Read more about preserving chilies and learn to make Sambal Oelek (Chile Paste).

Sambal Oelek (Chile Paste). Photograph by Andrew Purcell. Just like the cabbage I wrote about last week, chilies feature heavily in my pickling cookbook, The Complete Guide to Pickling. I pickle and preserve them on their own in recipes ranging from Beer-Pickled Jalapenos to Spicy Vinegar and from quick-pickled Chile Rings fermented hot sauces. I also drop them into many of the savory pickles in…

Curtido has become one of my favorite ways to preserve cabbage as both a quick vinegar-based slaw and a fermented pickle. Read more about preserving cabbage and learn to make Eight-Hour Curtido.

When Americans think of pickled foods, they often start with two vegetables: cucumbers and cabbage. For both types, the options extend far beyond basic dill slices and sauerkraut. I included 11 cucumber and 7 cabbage pickles in The Complete Guide to Pickling, ranging from quick pickles to relishes to ferments. In the cabbage category, curtido has become one of my favorites. This pickled cabbage…

Pickled eggs keep and travel well, making them summertime staples. I’ve learned some tricks that will help you when making pickled eggs. Learn to reuse pickle brine and make pickled eggs.

Harvest is in full swing, which means my canning and fermenting supplies dominate my mudroom and my refrigerator is packed with produce waiting to be preserved. But after the successful launch of my pickling cookbook, The Complete Guide to Pickling, last fall, I’ve made plenty of time for some recipes that make minimal use of my homegrown produce: pickled eggs. We have a rich supply of eggs on…