Quick Pickled Red Onion

Quick Pickled Red Onion

There’s a Gastown restaurant called Birds & Beets that serves their breakfast sandwiches with pickled red onion on top. They are oh so delicious so I decided to make some at home. Ingredients 1 large red onion, peeled, cut in half and sliced thinly 3/4 

Watermelon rind pickles

Watermelon rind pickles

I bought a beautiful small organic watermelon the other day and decided to try watermelon rind pickles. Some recipes I saw pickled the green skin but on this watermelon it was pretty tough so I just used the white part of the watermelon (this time). 

Dilly Beans and Quickles aka Quick Pickles Experiment #1

Dilly Beans and Quickles aka Quick Pickles Experiment #1

My friend Tracy Rowand of A Taste to Savour Catering and Cafe makes her home at Windsor Market, and I was invited to Customer Appreciation Night last week. While I was there being “appreciated” ha, I ended up buying some things (as I usually do