pretty pink picklemania.
Quick-Pickled
Watermelon Radishes & Fennel.
Quick Pickled Watermelon Radishes
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| anxiety-inducing seasonality be (ever so slightly) damned. |
Sometimes spring and summer produce gives me anxiety. Truthfully, sometimes most things give me anxiety, but we're here to talk about vegetables. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE summer (and all of the radishes, cucumbers, corn, tomatoes, etc. that come with it) but sometimes that "love with a capitol L" leads to irrational excitement which leads to overbuying and that overbuying leads to panic.
Or the excitement leads to panic and that panic leads to overbuying....
How on earth am I going to eat all of these ______
*fill in the blank with seasonally appropriate produce* before they go bad?
How can I keep eating said seasonally appropriate produce
even when it is no longer seasonally appropriate???
I CAN'T/ WON'T GO BACK TO A LIFE WITHOUT RADISHES.
Quick pickles are the answer.
A little vinegar, a little spice.
Seasonality temporarily upended,
(vegetable-based) anxiety alleviated.
And the picklemania? Totally manageable.
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| pretty pickle therapy. |
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| bounty. |
Quick Pickled Watermelon Radishes
& Fennel.
(will fill one quart jar)
1 bunch watermelon radishes (about 3-4)
1 large fennel bulb with stalks and fronds attached
1/2c unseasoned rice vinegar
1Tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice
1/2tsp sea salt
2tsp organic sugar
2tsp freshly ground coriander seeds
2 star anise pods
2Tbsp toasted sesame oil
