The Kittalog

After I picked all those green tomatoes on Saturday, I had to do something with them. Pickling seemed the easiest option. First, I scrubbed...

The first batch of hot spicy pickles I made were great, but not hot enough, the Sergeant said. The next batch even less so (I used cayennes ...

I planted a couple of cucumber seedlings in a newer flower bed where they would get some water from the lawn sprinklers. They are not as agg...

This salad starts with a turkey reuben, oddly enough. That was the very tasty sandwich I had at 900 Grayson in Berkeley on the Tuesday befo...

Since I had a bunch of dill left over after making the ricotta torte , and a cuke and carrots, and fresh inspiration from a pickling post at...

I used up the watercress and sprouts, but I still had 3/4 of a cucumber. When you have leftover vegetables and don't feel like putting t...

I love a nice pickle, especially pickled things other than cukes. Pickled asparagus? Absolutely. Pickled okra? Divine. I've made refrige...

For my caprese yesterday I wanted fresh tomatoes not from Safeway. Had this been a normal year, they would have been growing in my backyard....