Easy refrigerator dill pickles start with fresh pickling cucumbers, which are widely available at farmers markets in late summer. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Old-fashioned bread and butter pickles are flavored with brown sugar and onion, with turmeric adding a lovely golden hue. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Pickled peaches are easy to make and will add a surprising, summery tang to ice cream or pound cake. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Pickled peaches are easy to make and will add a surprising, summery tang to ice cream or pound cake. [Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Fast, easy recipes aren’t confined to cucumbers
Adoration of pickles amid ambivalence toward cucumbers may seem a strange contradiction.
Most of my adult years, however,…