pickled vegetables

You may be baked out of ideas for what to do with your CSA share of veggies. Have you steamed, spiralized, roasted, grilled and baked it into a loaf cake and find yourself fresh out of ideas? I’ve got you covered. We are getting pickled!

It was a fresh and fabulous rye bread from a new, local CSB (like a CSA but Community Supported Bread) which inspired me to pickle some veggies. It was also the memory of a very surprising Soba Noodle Salad from Saucony Creek Brewery and Gastropub. When you see a Soba Noodle Salad on the menu, you always have low expectations but high hopes. Pickled veggies were tossed into the mix and I’d travel back just for this vegan salad!

Until I make the return trip to Saucony, I made pickled vegetables with help from Nan Reinert of Chubby Pickle Farms. She taught pickling classes at Weaver’s Orchard and her pickles rock!

My pickling menu plan included toasted rye bread, avocado, Swiss cheese, pickled veggies and hot sauce. You could add a fried egg. It makes for a perfect vegetarian summer lunch.

You’ll find three easy refrigerator pickle recipes below. Check out Nan’s Weaver’s Orchard video for refrigerator and hot water pickling methods and grab her recipes for Chow Chow and Dilly Beans.

Before we say adieu, the 2 Weird Hungry Girls recorded several pickling and canning episodes with Nan and nationally known and loved Marisa McClellan, of Food in Jars. Listen in!

Getting Pickled with Marisa McClellan

Jar Jamming with Marisa McClellan

Summer Jam Session with Nan Reinert

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Total time

10 mins

 

Toss on chilled salads, tacos, roasted veggies, avocado toast or even in your potato salad. 

Bringing the vinegar to a boil will be a bit odiferous. Just fair warning you’ll want to be quick about that step.

: phoebe's pure food

Ingredients

• 1 bunch of radishes
• ¾ cup vinegar
• ¾ cup water
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1-2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 cloves garlic
• 4 dill heads
• Pinch of pepper flakes
• ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
• ½ teaspoon fennel seeds

Instructions

1. Wash and thinly slice the radishes. Pack into a 12-ounce canning jar with the garlic cloves and dill heads divided between the bottom and middle. Top with the any optional seeds or spices.
2. In a small sauce pan bring the water and vinegar to a simmer. Reduce heat to low, add the sugar and salt, stirring to dissolve.
3. Pour the vinegar over the radish until covered. Wipe the rim, tightly seal, allow to cool on the counter then refrigerate for up to one week. Keep refrigerated for up to two months.

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Basic Pickling Recipe

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Total time

20 mins

 

Use any vegetables you’d like. Nan uses cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, onions or radishes. Yields 1 quart

: Nan Reinert, Chubby Pickle Farms

Ingredients

• 4 cups vegetables
• ¼ - ½ tsp of whole dried spices (I use a blend of peppercorns, cumin, coriander, mustard seeds and caraway.)
• 1 cup vinegar, white wine or cider vinegar
• 1 cup filtered water
• 1 Tbsp kosher or any non-iodized salt
• optional: 1 tsp sugar

Instructions

1. Wash and cut the vegetables. Pack into a clean jar. Add the spices.
2. Combine vinegar, filtered water and salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.
3. Put your just-boiled brine over the vegetables in the jar.
4. Wipe any vinegar spills from the rim with a clean towel and put on the lid. Allow to cool.
5. Hide the jar in the back of the fridge for at least a week. Two weeks is better, three is best.
6. Keep them in the fridge for up to 6 months

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