All things pickled?

[MC Moot]

I love picked vegetables,like especially on the side of a panini or any other nice samich.....you know everything from the mild hungarian red pepper,or a hot bottle of mixed italian vegetables(carrot,pepper,cauliflower,celery) or dill pickles especially if you have access to a kosher deli.....I recently snagged a bottle of hot eggplant and it's great to throw on top of pizza,kind of chewy.....I'm hooked,you? I would actually like to learn how to preserve stuff,but am quite sure I'd posion myself or blow some stuff up....

[hellojello]

Snap.

However I believe the pickeled vegetables you refer to as Italian actually originate in the Middle East. I could be wrong though. There is a lot of similarities between middle easter and medditeranian food anyways.
But yeah, if I may just repeat myself from the other thread...
Go the pickled turnip!!!! Omg that stuff is almost better than sex. I frequent my local lebanese joint JUST to buy that stuff. (I think they think I'm a bit of a wierd assed whitie cause usually it goes in a kebab or felaful wrap or something and when I first asked for just a container of it by itself they didn't actually have a price and had to make one up... Felaful, tabouli, pickled turnip and garlic sauce. Man writing this is making me so hungry.

I've considered picking up a massive jar of it (the pickled turnip) from one of the Middle Eastern grocers around here but I've only ever seen it in bigassed jars (I'm talking a couple of kg's at least - I've only ever seen it sold in excessivley large jars) and I've always been a little apprehensive that maybe the non-fresh pickled turnip is not as good as the fresh one and that I'd be stuck with a whole massive jar to get through since wasting food is against my religion.

[MC Moot]

The similarity’s between Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine is awesome! I’m a Spaniard so I dig it deep… I don’t really ever see pickled turnips around, but I know I don’t care for beets….hmmmm…….a my local Ital deli, I’m always been hypnotized by those massive jars of layered olives, eggplant and peppers or even mushrooms…..worth up to a grand…..I asked the deli lady and she tells me they only really ever sell them when someone in the community has a big wedding or for restaurants as part of the motif…they are really gorgeous and ornate…..last weekend I bought these little pickled tomatoes that were stuffed with a piece of prositio and a little chunk of asiago cheese…oh my word…..not to mention hot red peppers stuffed with feta……too good to be good for you, me thinks….I have to try some turnip, though!

[hellojello]

In Australia beetroot is a MUST on a hamburger with the LOT.
If you've never had it you have to try it.
You won't be dissapointed.

[MC Moot]

beet root burger,eh?....Tasmanian devils!.....I have to grab some lunch,this is too much....do replace the mayo with vegemite?;)

[Gareth]

it's always nice to have a beetroot sandwich - cheap white toast bread, butter and beetroot

[HEIRESS]

those pickled beans that you get in caesars SWEET MOTHER

I adore pickled beets and of course dill pickles

and any big ole jar of olives is heaven to me

[Rancid_Beasties]

Most pickled things are awesome. Sundried tomatoes are awesome too, but olives are shit.

I hate beetroot in my burger. It just stains everything and makes it all soggy, I don't mind it by itself though.

[jabumbo]

olives are pickled?

[Rancid_Beasties]

olives are pickled?
No I was just going on to talk about other anti-pasto snacky sorta stuff.

[hellojello]

I thought olives were pickled.
I mean, I've seen an olive tree, I've seen fresh olives.
They don't taste or look like they do from a jar.

[Gareth]

oh, i like peppadew peppers as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppadew

[hitmonlee]

I hate beetroot in my burger. It just stains everything and makes it all soggy, I don't mind it by itself though.

i agree

it's always nice to have a beetroot sandwich - cheap white toast bread, butter and beetroot

add mayo :)
trust me
i used to eat these all the time as a kid

i love olives

[Rancid_Beasties]

I thought olives were pickled.
I mean, I've seen an olive tree, I've seen fresh olives.
They don't taste or look like they do from a jar.
Yeah they might be. Dunno. Like i said I hate them with a vengeance so I wouldnt know.

[hellojello]

I thought of a pickle I don't actually like -jalepenos
or chillis.
That's all.

[Otis Driftwood]

it's always nice to have a beetroot sandwich - cheap white toast bread, butter and beetroot
True that, same with falafel. Even though I ain't much for beetroot, I prefer rootbeer.

[hellojello]

I hate beetroot in my burger. It just stains everything and makes it all soggy, I don't mind it by itself though.
that's why when i make it at home i soak it on a paper towel first
and i was so thoughful in the food court when i worked there that i'd do the same thing.
i hate soggy bread
but i hate pineapple on hamburgers even more.

[Otis Driftwood]

Paper towel drying food deserves an extra thread!(y)

[MC Moot]

those pickled beans that you get in caesars SWEET MOTHER.

or when they put asparagus in as well.....it's like a caesar counts as a meal!

[MC Moot]

Olives! Yeah you can't eat'em unless ya pickle them,or press them for oil....green olives are "young" and black olives are ripe......I love them stuffed with pimento,garlic,anchoive,feta...whatever!...soooo good....except Kalamata's never really like them....every pizza joint in this town uses black olives on their pies...it's just not proper! Seems like most folks love'em or hate'm,cats or dogs....

[hellojello]

Olives! Yeah you can't eat'em unless ya pickle them,or press them for oil....green olives are "young" and black olives are ripe......I love them stuffed with pimento,garlic,anchoive,feta...whatever!...soooo good....except Kalamata's never really like them....every pizza joint in this town uses black olives on their pies...it's just not proper! Seems like most folks love'em or hate'm,cats or dogs....
I never knew black olives were ripe green ones. I thought they were a different variety.
I guess that's my thing I learned today.
I'm not to big on bluecheese stuffed olives I have to say. I like the idea though but they got nothing on olives stuffed with fetta.
I think our tastebuds were separated at birth cause i hate kalamata olives too.. it sucks cause every pizza joint around here uses them expect pizzahut but they dont count and i always loved my olives on my pizza but now i gotta say leave offf the olives cause they're so pervasive it spoils the rest of the food...
Yeah I've never really met anyone indifferent to olives.
Same with mushrooms..

[HEIRESS]

and whatever those peppers are called that they give away at quiznos

[MC Moot]

I think our tastebuds were separated at birth cause i hate kalamata olives too...... it sucks cause every pizza joint around here uses them expect pizzahut but they dont count and i always loved my olives on my pizza but now i gotta say leave offf the olives cause they're so pervasive it spoils the rest of the food.....

Reunited at last,it's like a movie!....Blue cheese in olives,eh? Hmmmm.....I love it a dressing or dip......but I don't know bout in a olive....I was just thinking about bar food...like a real "Manly man's bar", where they have those big jars of pickled eggs and sausage….I don’t like the eggs….but have you ever had pickled sausage?…I think it’s ukranian….it’s fantastic,but will sour your stomach like mad…or it might be the beer!I always wrestle with to order hot pepper rings on the Za but it outweighs all the other flava's....what a dilemma!

[hitmonlee]

Paper towel drying food deserves an extra thread!(y)

i do this with lettuce and eggplant

[Otis Driftwood]

I have better pans now, but when I had a sucky pan I had to use too much oil. But grease is not as high on my menu as crispy crusts...

[b-grrrlie]

I love things pickled! Especially beets, cucumber, cornichons (small cucumbers), pearl onions, pumpkin, zucchini, olives, sundried tomatoes, garlic....

I make my own off stuff from my allotment: green small tomatoes, red beets, pearl onions, and sometimes mixed vegetables. Sometimes I make them to give as Christmas presents or to have at Christmas dinner, but some of them don't last that long ;) .

I've never had beets in burgers, even tho here they're used quite a lot with meals made of ground beef, or pytti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyttipanna)panna (http://www.kristianstad.se/upload/M%C3%A5lgrupper/Senior/bilder/pytt_2.jpg), sort of cubes of leftovers... potatoes, onions, all sorts of vegetables and beef or sausage for carnivores.