Making your own sweet pickle relish recipe is one of those small decisions that changes everything. This condiment shows up on hot dogs, transforms egg salad into something you actually look forward to eating, and makes potato salad taste like it matters. Around here, relish goes hand in hand with summer, but honestly I use…
I honestly am not a big fan of dill pickles, but I love pickle relish. Whether it’s dill, sweet, or sweet and spicy, relish is one of those condiments that transforms everything it touches. I use my homemade dill pickle relish recipe mixed with mayo on turkey sandwiches, tuna salad, in scrambled eggs, and spread…
When a semi truck pulled up to our church in War, West Virginia with hundreds of boxes of English cucumbers, I went home with six boxes. That meant 72 cucumbers on my counter with a clock ticking. I had already tackled refrigerator dill pickles and relish from this haul, but bread and butter pickles felt…
If you ended up with a pile of English cucumbers and started wondering whether you could pickle them, the answer is yes. Pickled English cucumbers are actually better suited to the refrigerator than the canning jar, and once you understand why, the whole thing clicks. English cucumbers have thinner skin and a higher water content…
A semi truck pulled up to our little church in War, West Virginia and dropped off hundreds of boxes of English cucumbers. Just like that, our town of 500 people had a cucumber situation on our hands. Trey came home with six boxes, which meant I had 72 cucumbers sitting on my counter with a…
Easy homemade applesauce is one of those things that sounds like a project until you actually make it. Then you realize it takes about 20 minutes, a pot and some apples you probably already have. I started making my own after I flipped over a jar of store-bought applesauce and read the ingredient list. Apples,…
If you have been looking for a way to use fresh cherries that is not a pie and not a cobbler, these sourdough cherry muffins are exactly what you need. Fresh pitted cherries folded into a soft sourdough batter with white chocolate chips pressed into every bite. They bake up tall and golden with a…
Back in the 1970s, a sourdough English muffins recipe looked nothing like what you find on the shelf today. The original was simple. A basic breakfast bread with nooks and crannies deep enough to hold butter, a fried egg or whatever else you wanted to stuff inside. Then came longer shelf lines, allergen considerations and…
Why These Sourdough Discard Zucchini Muffins Are Different If you have sourdough discard sitting in your fridge and a zucchini on your counter, you are about ten minutes of prep away from a dozen of the best muffins you have made all summer. These sourdough discard zucchini muffins come together in one bowl, bake up…