Erica Holland-Toll always has four different jars of homemade pickles in her refrigerator. Maybe five. If she's hungry when she gets home from her job as head chef at Lark Creek Inn, she makes a ...

Pickling is yet another efficient way to preserve gourmet garlic so that you will have plenty to enjoy until the next harvest. Garlic is extremely versatile as a pickling vegetable, because it works ...

This story is the fifth in our series on preservation. We covered the basics of home canning and canning fruits, canning vegetables and making jams and jellies in previous stories. Do you have ...

Have you ever been “in a pickle”? As I was pondering this week’s column, I wondered where that expression originated. Being in a pickle is not a good thing, by the way. Basically, this means you are ...

Northern pike are one of the most widely distributed fish across the Ice Belt. It seems comparatively few people fish specifically for them in summer, but in winter, many anglers set out tip-ups ...