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Among good chefs seasonal cooking is expected. But what about seasonal mixology? Chefs are taking their produce to the bar and shaking up garden fresh cocktails fit for sipping on a sweltry summer night!
Here are two of the most creative "gartending" (bartending + garden = gartending) recipes I've come across. So, gather up some fruit and veg, and get mixing!
At this time of year, I would ordinarily be occupied making sauce and putting up tomatoes. But this August, I've grown rather fond of pickling.
Pickling, also known as brining or corning, is a 4000 year old technique for preserving food via fermentation in a brine solution, or storage in an acid solution, typically vinegar.
The word pickle derives from the Dutch word pekel, meaning brine. Though, in the US, the word pickle almost always refers to a pickled cucumber, there are plenty of pickling possibilities if we go beyond the gherkin.