I love these fried sweet plantains topped with quick-pickled red onions. And when I say quick pickled, I mean the quickest technique: just a brief marinade in a few shakes of vinegar and a pinch of ...

Pickles are generally an afterthought. They're the vegetable hidden underneath juicy tomato and crunchy lettuce on a burger, or the spear thrown on the side of a plate as a garnish that not everyone ...

While I respect people who crave complete control over their seasonings, I embrace the shortcut lifestyle that pre-seasoned ingredients afford me. Unsurprisingly, this includes seasoned rice vinegar, ...

White wine vinegar, water, honey and spice. I was more than a little curious as I gently simmered the ingredients over the stove. The aroma, at first richly fragrant and sweet with notes of cinnamon, ...

Welcome to Never Fail, a weekly column where we wax poetic about the recipes that never, ever let us down. When I was little, I believed with all of my heart that cucumbers and pickles were two ...

White wine vinegar, water, honey and spice. I was more than a little curious as I gently simmered the ingredients over the stove. The aroma, at first richly fragrant and sweet with notes of cinnamon, ...

I do like my pickles, but I am a lazy preserver. My solution is a speedy fix that omits the bother of canning: I make quick pickles. Quick-pickling is for impatient types like me, with (nearly) ...