Pickle Recipes for the Picking

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You can pickle just about anything. Try a variety of pickling recipes from our bloggers.
You can pickle just about anything. Try a variety of pickling recipes from our bloggers.
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Effectively preserve the flavor of fresh asparagus with fermentation.
Effectively preserve the flavor of fresh asparagus with fermentation.
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Olives can be picked and pickled green or black or in between.
Olives can be picked and pickled green or black or in between.
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Pickled beets add bright flavor to a salad.
Pickled beets add bright flavor to a salad.
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Try pickling red, golden, or striped 'Chioggia' beets for a variety of color.
Try pickling red, golden, or striped 'Chioggia' beets for a variety of color.
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Eggs easily pick up flavor, making great pickles.
Eggs easily pick up flavor, making great pickles.
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Beans' long tendrils make lovely pickles.
Beans' long tendrils make lovely pickles.
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Cardoon leaves work well in place of grape leaves in many pickle recipes.
Cardoon leaves work well in place of grape leaves in many pickle recipes.
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This refrigerator pickle recipe is useful when you have a few cucumbers and want a quick pickle.
This refrigerator pickle recipe is useful when you have a few cucumbers and want a quick pickle.
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The sweetness of beets balances tangy vinegar to create this well-balanced, protein-rich snack.
The sweetness of beets balances tangy vinegar to create this well-balanced, protein-rich snack.
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You can use leftover pickle brine to pickle more vegetables, such as this cauliflower, carrot, and broccoli blend.
You can use leftover pickle brine to pickle more vegetables, such as this cauliflower, carrot, and broccoli blend.

After seeing the variety of salad dressing recipes and tips our bloggers submitted for the April/May 2017 issue, we decided to call on them again — this time for their favorite pickle recipes. Reflected in the bloggers’ submissions is this welcome food-preservation truth: You can pickle just about anything. They’ve given us a variety of ideas — asparagus, beans, beets, and even eggs. Some of their homemade pickle recipes are true fermentations, taking advantage of the lacto-fermentation process. Others are “quick pickles” or “refrigerator pickles,” reliant on refrigeration. We hope this collection of methods and ingredients will spark your creativity in preserving your most prolific produce this season.

Kristi Quillen

Spicy Asparagus Pickles

By Kirsten Shockey

The worldwide practice of pickling has produced long-lasting and tasty veggies for millennia — lacto-fermentation is the original “quick pickle.” With a little salt and time, the process does all the work.

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