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Welcome to Twice as Tasty

Created by Julie Laing
Learn how to eat well year-round by preserving, pickling, freezing, dehydrating, fermenting, and more. Read the latest on the blog here.

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The Complete Guide to Pickling by Julie Laing

Got pickles? Let’s use them.

The Pickled Picnic

More from Julie

Appearances:
Pucker Up! We Found the Best Pickle of the Month Club Taste of Home
The dos – and don’ts – of growing your own The Telegraph
How to make quick-pickled jalapeños to add brightness and heat to any dish, with pickling expert Julie Laing Insider
Pie and a Connection to a Family’s Past Flathead Beacon
The Best Fermentation Crocks for Homemade Pickles, Kimchi, and Kraut, with Canning and Fermenting Expert Julie Laing The Spruce Eats
Being a Cookbook Writer with Pickling Expert Julie Laing Cookbook Love Podcast
The Science of Pickling Flathead Beacon
Battle Ground native knows how to pickle practically anything The Columbian
Local food blogger teaches cooking workshops The Daily Interlake
Grilled Tofu from The ‘Ohana Grill Cookbook Sugar + Shake

Latest Events

March 7: Free the Seeds
I will be among the numerous Free the Seeds workshop presenters at Flathead Valley Community College. Join me to learn about Eating Fresh All Year. You’ll learn about some of my favorite plant pairings on the plate, seasonal recipes, and foods I always preserve to enjoy when my garden is dormant. Full details of the daylong schedule and seed giveaway are available here.
Ongoing: This Situation Calls for Pickles
Get my books! The Complete Guide to Pickling is packed with essential information and 125 flavorful recipes, including mealtime pickles that are ready in minutes, refrigerator pickles ideal for single-jar batches, fermented pickles big on flavor and crunch, and processed pickles perfect for long-term storage. Order your signed copy today.

Recent Posts

  • Herb-Infused Sugar
  • Buttery Jam-Filled Cupcakes
  • A Decade of Eating Well Year-Round
  • Balsamic-Roasted Radishes
  • Spring Pearl Barley Salad
My first original recipe for@simplyrecipes has gone live! As fits the website's name, the recipe couldn't be simpler: 2 ingredients, under 10 minutes. I make it with every kimchi recipe in my pickling cookbook, but store-bought kimchi works too. https://www.simplyrecipes.com/kimchi-fried-rice-recipe-12001578 #newrecipe #kimchi #kimchifriedrice #homemadekimchi #bestkimchi #friedrice #friedricerecipe #twiceastastyblog #twiceastasty Flavored sugars are so simple and easy to make that you don't have to stick to traditional infusions like vanilla sugar (although that is delicious). I explain how to use herbs, including unexpected ones like basil for treats like buttercream, in my latest @flatheadbeacon column. https://flatheadbeacon.com/2026/06/18/herb-infused-sugar/ #newarticle #flavoredsugar #infusion #herbinfusion #infusedsugar #basilsugar #vanillasugar #twiceastastyblog #twiceastasty
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On My Bookshelf

Books on food, preserving, and gardening abound, but these are the ones I turn to every season:

The Complete Guide to Pickling Julie Laing
The Pickled Picnic Julie Laing

Well-Preserved Eugenia Bone
The Garden Primer Barbara Damrosch
The Science of Good Cooking Editors at America’s Test Kitchen and Guy Crosby, PhD
Complete Grilling Cookbook Editors at Williams-Sonoma (Chuck Williams, editor, Charles Pierce, editor, and Noel Barnhurst, photographer)
Canning for a New Generation Liana Krissoff
The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt
On Food and Cooking Harold McGee
Organic Gardening in Cold Climates Sandra Perrin
Ratio Michael Ruhlman
Essential Food Preserving Julia Skinner
Saving the Season Kevin West
The Joy of Pickling Linda Ziedrich

Find more of my favorite books on the On My Bookshelf board.

Links I Like

National Center for Home Food Preservation The U.S. government-approved source for most methods of home food preservation.
USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision Free PDF versions of the USDA's guidelines for canning food.
U.S. FDA’s Approximate pH of Foods and Food Products Downloadable list of the pH for almost anything you may want to can at home.
Sharing fermented starters Facebook group to share and request sourdough starter, scoby, kefir grains, and more.

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