Recipe: Preserving food allows you to capture the season's bounty
Home preserving of seasonal produce is enjoying a renaissance, using pickling, fermenting, dehydrating, and oil preservation to extend flavor, shelf life, and culinary variety.
Rick Bayless Told Us His Trick For More Vibrant Pickled Red Onions - Tasting Table
Adding a small amount of fresh beet to pickled red onions preserves and transfers vibrant pink-red color without imparting strong beet flavor when proportioned correctly.
Japanese Cucumbers Are A Super Substitute For English Cukes In Green Salads - Tasting Table
Japanese cucumbers (kyuri) are slender, sweet, crunchy vegetables with thin skin, few seeds, and high water content, ideal for salads, pickles, and sushi.
You Can't Make The Absolute Crispiest Homemade Pickles Without This Beverage On Hand - Tasting Table
Adding tea leaves to the pickling liquid maximizes the crunch factor of homemade pickles by containing tannins that inhibit enzymes causing cucumbers to soften.