The Pickled Pantry Book

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As we head out of summer and into fall we are often left with an abundance of produce and scrambling for ideas on what to do with it all. Unfortunately, our tomatoes don’t ripen one or two at a time…they tend to ripen all at once and we are left eating an awful lot of tomatoes for a week or two! I remember when I was a kid going out to the garden with my dad and filling up my little red wagon with cucumbers. I would go to friends houses to play and their moms would say “please do not send any more cucumbers!” If you are left with a huge harvest and not sure what to do with all your produce, consider learning how to pickle it! The Pickled Pantry from Storey Publishing is a great guide to help you get started. Read on for more information about The Picked Pantry by Andrea Chesman. The suggested retail price for this book is $19.95.

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the Pickled Pantry

The Pickled Pantry

 

Title:  The Pickled Pantry

Subtitle:  From Apples to Zucchini, 150 Recipes for Pickles, Relishes, Chutneys & More

Author:  Andrea Chesman

ISBN:  978-1603425629

Publisher:  Storey Publishing, LLC (June 5, 2012)

Format:  Paperback (304 pages)

 

 

From the Publisher:

Half-Sour Dill Pickles. Salt-Cured Dilly Beans. Sauerkraut. Kimchi. Classic Hot Sauce. Cortido with Cilantro. Rosemary Onion Confit. Italian Tomato Relish. Chow Chow. Korean-Style Pickled Garlic. With Andrea Chesman’s expert guidance, you’ll love making these and dozens of other fresh, contemporary recipes for pickling everything from apples to zucchini. Beginners will welcome the simple, low-fuss methods and thorough coverage of the basics, and dedicated home canners will love the large-batch recipes and the stunning variety of flavors.

 

About the Author:

Andrea Chesman is the author of many cookbooks, including The Pickled Pantry, Recipes from the Root Cellar, Pickles and Relishes, Mom’s Best One-Dish Suppers, and The Vegetarian Grill, which was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Book Award and won a National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence. She is a co-author of Mom’s Best Desserts and The Classic Zucchini Cookbook, and her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Cooking Light, Food & Wine, Vegetarian Times, Organic Gardening, Fine Cooking, and other publications. Chesman lives in Ripton, Vermont, with her husband and two sons.

 

My review:  My son and husband are passionate pickle loves, although I admit that this year I have had to head for the refrigerated grocery store isle to feed their craving. I did not get a single cucumber out of my own garden…some horrid leaf disease seems to have hit my crop this year. But, if you are a better gardener than I am or like to hit the farmer’s markets on the weekends, I think you will really enjoy The Pickled Pantry.

The introduction to The Pickled Pantry talks all about the hows and whys of pickling things. There is a discussion of ingredients and what they do as well as different flavors you can add to spice things up a bit. I appreciate the depth that the author goes into regarding food handling and safe pickling procedures. I would hate to make something only to give my family food poisoning!

I love that the author wrote a chapter on Single Jar Pickles because once I made a huge batch of pickles that no one liked and that was just a giant waste of time and good cucumbers! This chapter is all about making small batches to see if you like it before really committing yourself to a full batch!

Don’t think that The Pickled Pantry is all about cucumbers…nope! There are recipes for pickling carrots, asparagus, cauliflower and lots of other produce! I was also very happy to see entire chapters on refrigerator and freezer pickles. Those are definitely my preference! I am always a little intimidated by sterilization of jars and hot water baths! The Pickled Pantry also includes recipes for an assortment of salsas, condiments and sauces.

Many of the recipes offer kitchen notes…useful tidbits of information from the author about ingredients or processes mentioned in the recipe. You will also find pages of gardening tips, poetry and pickle history scattered amongst the pages. There is a good mix of relatively easy and slightly more complicated recipes so I think this would be useful for both beginners and more experiences picklers! I am very impressed with The Pickled Pantry and will be sharing a recipe from the book next week if you care to stop by and check it out!

 

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128 thoughts on “The Pickled Pantry Book”

  1. I would love to read the Root Cellaring book…my husband is planning on building our own for our sweet potatoes and we know nothing on where to start!

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  3. Put ’em Up! sounds really cool, I would love to read that!
    And the pickling book too, my 10 year old son loves pickles so this book would provide both of us with some fun time together in the kitchen 🙂
    Ana

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  4. I am very interested in the book: “Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere,” by Laurelynn G. Martin, Byron E. Martin. I am trying to make sure our family has the largest variety of homegrown produce possible. 🙂

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  24. I’d love to read the Tomato: A Fresh-from-the-Vine Cookbook. Maybe I can try it out next year when I can figure out how to keep the bunnies from eating my tomatoes!
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  66. A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game – it’d be great to learn how to home-preserve meat when it goes on sale!

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  75. I’d love to have copies of: The Beginner’s Guide to Preserving Food at Home, Put ’em Up!, A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

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  79. I want to read Put Em Up. I am a SAHM of 10 and trying to get a garden going as well as purchasing in bulk from local growers. Being able to can and preserve during the summer months would save us a LOT of money! Thanks for the chance to win!!

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  80. I’d also like to read Put ‘Em Up. I would love to be able to grow fresh food and preserve it to keep for later. It sounds like a really useful book. Thanks!

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  119. Another book that would be interesting to read is Homegrown Herbs. I love gardening, this would be really nifty to read through. 😀

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