When life gives you lemons – make pickle two ways.

An early morning pickling expedition came by for mainly two reasons. First and more importantly, I was looking for ways to save these aromatics from rotting. Second, a desperate yearning to indulge in some culinary activity outside the daily routine meals. Things turned interesting when midway between making the turmeric root and ginger pickle, I…

My desi gherkins.

Pickle, Gherkin or just Pickled Cucumber- depending upon where you are in the world; are sandwich staples and side accompaniments mostly. Unless you obviously want to gobble that entire thing down on its own. But as far as I can remember, my first interaction with gherkins was in first year of college, in Delhi, when…