Comments on: Fresh Dill Pickles a la Marketman

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:06:13 +0000

Roland, they do have dill pickles in Metro Manila. Try Metro Grocery Market!Market!, S&R, Rustan’s etc. VLASIC dills are on grocery shelves relatively often. As for fresh dill, its not plentiful at the moment, due to recent weather, but it will be more plentiful from February onwards… weekend markets will have it, groceries will have it. I have used lots of dill for pickles, to make my own gravlax salmon, etc…

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:38:52 +0000

You can’t purchase Dill Pickles in the Philippines that is the problem. No one here knows what a pickle is all they know is sweet pickles. Sweet pickles are not a Pickle. It is a candied cucumber. I want to know where to buy the Dill weed. I hate you cannot buy a real pickle in the Philippines. Great rescipe you posted but where did you get the Dill. I could pickle them but can’t find dill even mail order.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:16:35 +0000

hi MM, I love your blog.,enjoyed it so much., maybe you can help me out, i want to know where i can purchase this type of pickles here in Manila, thanks a lot

By: Suzette

Suzette — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:30:08 +0000

I love dill pickles. Now I have to go look where I stashed the pickle making book I bought months ago from Fully Booked. I’m inspired by your wonderful photo.
My lolo would make dill pickled gherkins, burong mangga and kimchi before and we would all impatiently wait for it to mature. The minute it landed on the table it would be gone in a few hours.

By: Starshadow Rivaulx

Starshadow Rivaulx — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:59:41 +0000

*sigh* This entry about pickles reminds me about the one thing my husband and I miss most about his old bachelor place…the kamias tree that was a faithful producer of some of the most succulent fruit you could care to see in the Metro area.

Every summer, he and his siblings would harvest the fruit, and without fail, the moment he arrived home with his share, out would come the preserve bottles and in would go freshly washed kamias. Nothing fancy about the solution, just water and plain salt.

We always made it a point to barbecue ribs or roast a chicken on the day the burong kamias were ready to be eaten; totally added sparkle to plain steamed rice and meat in its natural juices. Yum! :)

By: Marketfan

Marketfan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:24:40 +0000

love the photos, MM

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:02:06 +0000

BTW, the pickles are nearly a week old now, and are in fact starting to turn a little more olive green, but still look much fresher than supermarket pickles…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:07:36 +0000

Yes, pickles have sugar and salt, hence off my current diet. Pickles with sugar in the brining solution also possess some calories you wouldn’t expect. Kai, Santis delicatessens in Manila seem to have the spices you mention, or I suppose Flavors n Spices in Market!Market! Mall in Manila would also have them. Patricia, yes, the type of cucumbers does matter. I have found that normal salad cucumbers get rather mushy or aren’t as firm as say pickling gherkins (in the photos above) or small firm “Japanese” cucumbers. millet, these are really nice, had another one yesterday despite the ban on salt and sugar, and these are fresh, crisp and flavorful. I do wonder how long they will last that way, maybe a month at most… tonceq, I have to admit, as a kid, I loved sweet pickles and wasn’t keen on dills. But now, dills and other less sweet pickles are my favorites… monique ignacio, I have never done these with ilocos vinegar, so you might want to try a very small batch first to check out results… NYCMama, yes, Gus’ was just one of those iconic places for food in NY… satomi, haven’t really celebrated St. Patrick’s Day so other than a bit of green clothing wise… its a normal day for us menu wise. Gerry, I want to hit 167 lbs before refeeding, exercise and attempted maintenance at around say 175 or so for the next few months. And I am roughly at 170 now, so just 3-4 more pounds. :) Footloose, egads, I have been pickling up a storm in recent weeks!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:44:58 +0000

One of the things I learned while studying in the States was how to appreciate a good crunchy fresh refrigerated pickle, and not those things that you fish out of your yumburger from Jollibee. With a good sandwich, especially from this hole in the wall place near my university.

@Angelo pickles are surprisingly high in calories. My housemates and I once bought jars of hot and sweet pickle chips (just pickles but sliced perpendicular instead of parallel) and you’d think cucumbers would be low in calories but somehow, once pickled they’re not.

By: Angelo

Angelo — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:16:38 +0000

Why can’t you have any pickles in your diet? Is it the salt?