Unlike other Christmas seasons, when I spent days – even weeks – creating batches of sugary-cookies which have no redeeming value, this recipe is one of our new Christmas traditions, easily-created by adding already-fermented, Pickl-It Cranberry Relish.

While my mother and aunts created sugar-rich cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, I much preferred my grandmother’s traditional Swedish recipe, originally made by her great-grandmother who used raw lingonberries.

My great-grandmother regularly spread creamed honey on her morning toast. Beekeeper’s, for thousands of years, considered creamed honey to be the preferred storage method for the year’s honey harvest. Learn how to make your own using a Pickl-It!

Tomato salsa, as a colorful example of food which is loaded with powerful, beneficial flavonoids (polyphenols), credited with the ability to stop tumors (described as “chemopreventive activities against carcinogenesis and mutagenesis”), reducing inflammation, and serving us as strong antioxidants, slowing down aging.

Salt is to brine, like flour is to a well-made bread. Proportions matter, and in both cases, measuring spoons and cups are worthless tools when it comes to measuring dry ingredients. Learn how to make a proper brine for your Pickl-It.