Besides in dill pickle soup, on sandwiches, in potato salad, and maybe in dill pickle pizza, in what recipes do you use pickles?
I’ve used pickles in Rosolli potato beet salad https://www.notquitenigella.com/2021/06/11/rosolli-beetroot-salad-finnish/
Okroshka, and Olivier.
Thanks for any ideas.
I put up about a dozen quarts of bread and butter pickles every year, but the only thing I do with them is put them in sandwiches (sometimes) and snack on them straight from the jar. For some reason, the usual lunch for Mrs. ricepad and me when we’re working in the yard is grilled cheese sandwiches (whatever kind of cheese we have on any kind of bread) and bread and butter pickles. That’s it, but we can polish off half a jar of them in one sitting between the two of us.
I should probably just eat them. My cousin’s wife always puts out a bowl of bread and butter pickles or sweet pickles at lunch time.
Straight from the jar or in bowls as an app or dinner side; chopped up in salads; in a quesadilla (one time I didn’t have pickled jalapenos so used sour dill and loved it); in egg, mock-egg, or tuna salad
I’m with @ricepad. I usually make a big jar of bread and butter refrigerator pickles every year. I love pickle and mayo sandwiches, I also use them in tartar sauce and oinon/pickle relish for hot dogs.
My in-laws and family all put dill pickles on nachos. Conversely they think I’m weird because I put them in peanut butter sandwiches.
Dice them up, put them on rice with a healthy serving of Chinese pork floss.
Mix thoroughly, eat, enjoy.
Include in panzanella salad, either adding to or subbing for part/all of the tomatoes. Very refreshing.
Fried pickles are delicious, and @bbqboy links to a recipe from Homesick Texan who gives really solid recipes.
I make a coleslaw that has 1 cup sliced dill and 1/3 cup dill pickle juice. The recipe is from a cafeteria that was very popular in Texas, called Luby’s. They published it in a 50th anniversary cookbook in 1996, and you can see the recipe here:
To that slaw recipe, I usually also add 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced, and sometimes use Wickles instead of dill pickles, which are sweet and spicy.
Some people add dill pickles to a pot roast that’s served with a sour cream gravy… a Polish dish. Similarly beef + pickles, there’s rouladen. I haven’t tried these, but maybe someone here can report how they taste?
Just today I read about a Rachel Ray recipe for beef stroganoff that had pickles in it, but no mushrooms. The reviewer liked her recipe best over 2 other celebrity chefs FWIW. She said she’d include mushrooms next time as well as the pickles. She also said she was surprised how tasty the dill pickles were in there. Not something I’d ever think to put in my stroganoff!
Pickle roll ups appetizer with cream cheese and meat or tortilla… Here’s one example of a “recipe” from Food Network.
Bread and butter pickles are delicious in homemade 1,000 Island dressing, deviled eggs, or potato salad, if you want to skew a little sweet.
Cheeseburger salad. Pioneer Woman’s version has mini-cheeseburgers, but I’ve more often seen it with simply browned ground beef along with the 'fixins. Here’s the Skinnytaste version.
“Eating fried pickles was a life-changing experience,” said “Jersey Shore” cast member Snooki upon her introduction to said pickles.”
Snooki from Jersey shore😂 Forgot all about her. Thanks for the laugh.
“Making fried pickles is easy, as long as you’re comfortable with some popping grease and sticky hands”.
I tried making fried pickles One time. What a mess. Hard to get all the moisture out of the pickles. Easiest to order at a restaurant or Louis Rich puts out a more than decent frozen version to shallow fry. With Ranch of course.
I eat them with pulled pork and with what we call “hamburg bbq” which is basically homemade sloppy Joe.
I dice up sour dill slices and add them to my egg salad or tuna spreads. Bread & Butter I will use in a relish tray. No big excitement here!
Yes, you are weird.
But weird is the new wonderful.
I think, anyway. I mean, that sounds horrible. But my wife and kids love peanut butter, mayo, meltie cheese, fried egg sandwiches.
So what’s a few dill pickle chips among friends.
Two of my daughters are addicted to Wickles. I found them tasty but a touch too hot the next morning…
Not one of my favorite authors (I gave up after C) but this has stuck in my mind from years ago:
“one of those peanut butter and pickle sandwiches I’m so fussy about. Whole grain bread, Jif Extra Crunchy, and Vlasic or Mrs. Fanning’s Bread’n Butter Pickles.”
Sue Grafton
I’ve lost track. Has she gone through the alphabet yet? Or started over with A?
