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Homemade Fermented Spicy Dill Pickles

1/2 Gallon of spicy dill pickles ready for the refrigerator

I eat something fermented/pickled at every meal typically. By far the most popular one that I make is spicy pickles.
As you start fermenting foods at home, they are a wonderful entry-level project. They are easy and don’t take much time or special equipment. It is also a very fun ferment that you can experiment with and try new flavor combinations easily.

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Creole Meunière Sauce

Meunière refers to both a sauce and a method of preparation, primarily for fish. The word itself means “miller’s wife”. Thus to cook something à la meunière was to cook it by first dredging it in flour. A meunière sauce is a simple preparation—brown butter, chopped parsley, and lemon—and the name refers to its rustic nature.

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