No need to peel and slice a whole onion if you only want one or two onion rings on your salad, hamburger, or hot dog, when you pickle a pint jar of onion slices. From the onion peels and the trimmed ends that dont go in the jar, you can make an instant french onion soup lunch while pickling the onion rings. Recipes below.

Pickling fresh English or California Cucumbers keeps them firm and tasty all year in jars with this mild sweet and sour pickling recipe, a family heirloom.

When the turnips are ripe and juicy, we cut them to french fry size and sweet sour pickle them as snacks for the winter. Together with pickled cucumbers, carrots, boiler onions, green beans, babycorns, they make a great holiday party platter for guests, if they havent been snacked already.#GlobalApron

This is my version of cookpad member Ulrikes’ pickled sour fish rolls made from japanese eggplant instead of fish filets. She calls them rollmops, I love the word. I am using Taiwanese lavender eggplants from the city of Ping Tung, they grow well here.I made two jars, one is following her recipe, the other uses the sweet and sour recipe I have been using for pickled trout and pollock. After a few days of pickling, both japanese and taiwanese eggplant slices are delicious, but softer than fish, so I will make another batch with a thicker egg plant slice. Stays fresh up to 2 weeks in the fridge.Pick young eggplants with soft skin when they are 1/3 the size of fully grown eggplants. We harvest weekly from July to September.

These are Italian red peppers, also called Carmen peppers, or “bullshorn” peppers. They are as long as my hand, look like a bulls horn. Mild peppers, kids love to snack on them fresh or pickled. Great on salads and in soups. Stays crunchy till next harvest when pickled.

Slice peeled onion, fry in oil, add honey, douse with lemon juice. Three minute sweet and sour pickles.

Our favorite mushroom pickling is spring mushrooms in taragon with fennel herb vinegar and then preserving in lemon grass oil. They taste delicious all year with cheese and crackers, and avocado sandwiches. This recipe explains how we make this herbal vinegar and lemon grass oil at home. Takes one hour. The vinegar and oil stay beautiful all year if you keep them in green glass bottles in the dark.Mushrooms are sprouting six weeks after the first winter rains. You pick them in the woods, grow them in the window or buy them in the store. To grow them at home, see my mushroom growing kit recipes in here.

Our chickens are laying lots of eggs this time of year, but in another month, they stop laying till days get longer again. We coat their egg shells with soy bean oil so they stay fresh one more month, but then have to wait for eggs till hens start laying again.You dont have to wait. You can pickle eggs in the shell without peeling. See recipe below.Pickled eggs bridge the eggless winter period and are great in winter salads. They stay fresh for two months. The red beet colored eggs brighten salads, the yellow eggs spice up curries, the brown soy sauce eggs complement asian dishes.#GlobalApron

We grow french Cymes onions from seed. We start harvesting and dry the small, young and mild ones in September, harvest the larger, mature, pungent ones in November. Leave the best ones to make seed. We dry and store them all year till next harvest. Pearl onions ( under 1” diameter) and boiler onions ( from 1” to 1 1/2 “) are dug up and dried early for their mildest flavor. Here is a quick and handy tearless way to remove the dry outer peel when preparing them, and our family cream recipe. We also pickle them for this recipe to use the rest of the year.

Cookpad member “Pinkblanket’s Kitchen” posted a beautiful, sophisticated recipe for pickling daikon and carrots with 10% white vinegar. Thank you, Mrs Pinkblanket. I like to make that with my farm made 5% apple cider vinegar recipe, sugar and spices, and made a jar to see how that works when mixing carrots with daikon. Here is the recipe. It took half a year to see how the flavors and textures develop, but it sure looks pretty already and tastes good after a week. The turmeric will turn the white daikon sticks yellow.For safe pickling, follow soeasytopreserve.com.

February-March is when we pick and enjoy our fresh giant meyer Improved Lemons and pickle them for the rest of the year.

When the winter carrots are at their juiciest, we pickle them for use throughout the year till the next harvest. Here is the family recipe.