Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2020. Learning to preserve had long been on my bucket list. No one in my family or the neighborhood had taken me under their canning wing, and it ...

“Pickles,” mused my son, crunching a sour, green spear at age 5, “aren’t like food you grow. They come from another food.” It could have been an answer from Jeopardy: The Kindergarten Round. “I’ll ...

For this garlic dill pickle canning recipe, you'll need one pound of pickling cucumbers, two quarts jars, 1/3 cup of canning salt, four cups white vinegar, eight tablespoons sugar, six cloves garlic ...

My garden — more correctly, my husband’s garden — was overflowing with cucumbers. Lots of tomatoes and peppers, too, along with lesser amounts of carrots, eggplant, Egyptian spinach, zucchini and the ...

Fresh cucumbers can be eaten plain as a snack, an appetizer or sliced up to add to salads. One half cup counts as a serving and provides only 10 calories to your diet. Fresh cucumbers are best eaten ...