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Raising A Glass Of Cheer For 7 Years
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Leave a Comment We’re wrapping up a week of celebrations for our 7th anniversary tonight by celebrating with one of our old friends… Jimmy Carbone of Jimmy’s No. 43. It’s going to be a low-key affair… I don’t even know what the 7th anniversary is (tin? paper?) but I do know it will include some tasty microbrews and pickles.
James Carbone, aka Jimmy
4 plus 3 is 7. 4 followed by 3 is 43, so by the left-brain logic that animates all the best things we do, it’s fitting we are at Jimmy’s tonight. We’ll be there from 5 to 8 PM, at 43 East 7th street, between 2nd and 3rd.
Our Wednesday Greenmarket Spot Is Changing
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Leave a Comment Most people start their year on January 1st. Banks and fancy financial folks have different start dates for their fiscal years. GrowNYC, the parent organization for Greenmarket, starts the year on April 1st, which makes sense, when you think that this time of year is when things start to bloom, sprout and get their green on.
And since the Parks Department has restructured Greenmarket’s space a bit, we are on the move. Just about twenty feet farther South, right at 15th street, and on the Union Square West side of the walkway. I’m always amazed when we shift positions slightly and people say WHERE WERE YOU? YOU WEREN’T THERE! Yes we were, and are. On Saturdays we’ll still be in the Northwest corner of the market. Smiling and selling pickles. See you there!
Smiling and selling pickles.
Brooklyn Flea Returns To The Outdoors… Let Your Fleak Flag Fly!
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Leave a Comment We’re super-excited to get outside again with Eric, Rob, Kevin and the rest of the Flea Folk. Not only does the original Fort Greene location come back better than ever, but also there’s a new Sunday locale in scenic and fashionable Williamsburg. I’ll be at the Williamsburg location from 12-2 handing out free samples of our brand new Classic Sours. Come on down!
Let Your Fleak Flag Fly Saturday and Sunday.
New Amsterdam Market Benefit April 9th: Oyster Saloon (with a very special pickle)
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Leave a Comment 
Oysters all around.
Our good friend and market visionary Robert LaValva is hosting another smorgasbord/fundraiser on April 9 to benefit his New Amsterdam Market. We’ve been working with Robert since year one of the Market and his benefit parties are not only a worthy expenditure but a hoot. This time, he’s asked us to roll up our sleeves and make something special for the event. We concluded it would be fun to do a pickled carrot. We agreed it should be aromatic and spicy. And I have a secret agenda… I’ve been looking for a reason to fool around with Szechuan Peppercorns. I see great things in the future for this pickle.
These ingenues and their friends are about to meet some interesting peppercorns from Szechuan Province.
I’ll keep you posted when I do the recipe test next week. You can get tickets to the event here.
wedding favors from rick’s picks via martha stewart
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Leave a Comment Last night in the mail I got the “save the date” for my buddy Adam and his beautiful bride-to-be Jessica’s wedding. Adam runs our warehouse in Long Island City, where we currently have over 100,000 jars carefully stored for the coming months. So if Adam needs pickles for his wedding, all he has to do is ask. Other folks with nuptuals in the offing might want to consider this cool wedding guest gift that we partnered on with our friends at Martha Stewart Weddings… custom gift-sized pickle jars!
These petite versions of our top-selling pickles make great wedding favors.
These pickles come in 8,9 and 12 oz. sizes and naturally Martha’s team has a bunch of great suggestions on how you can personalize the jars for your special day. Minimum order is 100 jars and for this type of custom order we need a lead time of 60 days. If you are interested or have any questions email us at contact@rickspicksnyc.com or give us a shout at 212 358 0428.
Hotties on Spring Break
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Leave a Comment The time-honored rituals of college students on Spring break are not lost on us here at Rick’s Picks. But since we’ve been quite busy planning the 2011 year in pickles at the home office, we haven’t been able to “take our talents to South Beach”, as LeBron James would say. But we still have been nicely represented. Here’s a few snapshots of our Hotties styling and profiling in sunny South Florida.
Hotties waiting for the sun to come out. Who designed that label, Norma Kamali?
One great advantage to being a pickle jar-size Hottie and not an actual human hottie is there is more room to spread out on the cabana chair.
Hotties getting some advice from the hotel yoga instructor on the finer points of downward dog.
Burt Lancaster never had it so good in "From Here To Eternity".
And Hotties lovers, don’t forget to enter our Hotties recipe contest! Deadline is March 31st!
spring feelings
Spring officially arrived yesterday, and we’ve had a run of nice weather here in NYC for the first time in a good while. While we’re not into full-on blooming flower mode yet, there is definitely a feeling of optimism in the air. Here’s a picture Jina took to whet your appetite for those picnics in the park which feel like they are just around the corner.
Picture this: spring colors in a Classic Sours sandwich platter.
I love how the palette of spring’s soft colors is captured here… it whets my palete. And makes me want to each a pallet of Classic Sours. Palette, palete, pallet… I’m feeling the warmth of Spring. Bring it on!
Guest Blogger: Anne Saxelby’s Grilled Landaff and Hotties Sandwich Recipe
I’m very excited to feature our very first guest blogger, Anne Saxelby – founder of Saxelby Cheesemongers. This woman knows and loves cheese, especially American farmstead cheese featured in her shop at Essex Market in the Lower East Side. The Saxelby crew (including baby bro) got up bright and early for Pickle Day to make scrumptious Landaff and Hotties grilled cheese sandwiches for a hungry crowd. Without further adieu…Anne Saxelby!
Way back in 2006 when I first opened up my humble cheese shop in the Essex Market, Rick Field, pickle visionary and man about town, asked me if I’d want to collaborate on a tasty something or other for Pickle Day. The opportunity to be at Pickle Day as a behind-the-scenes person as opposed to a mere civilian was almost too exciting to bear… So, hearkening back to my childhood favorite foods (and acknowledging my overall lack of culinary prowess) I decided we should do a grilled cheese and pickle sandwich. Don’t ask me how, but there’s something magic that happens when you heat up some cheese and get that vinegary, briny pickly thing going on between two slices of bread. Now it’s a tradition. Each year Rick dreams up a new Pick(le) and we try to find its cheesy mate. I don’t mean to brag, but I think this one may be the best of the bunch… Get yourself a jar of hotties and make some magic happen!
Grilled Landaff and Hotties Sandwich
Ingredients:
2 oz Landaff cheese from Landaff Creamery, NH (your favorite local farmstead cheese will also do just fine!)
6 ‘Hotties’ Sriracha spiced pickles from Rick’s Picks
1 Tom Cat Bakery focaccia pocket
How to assemble:
Slice the focaccia pocket lengthwise, to make a little pouch for your sandwich
Take 2 thin slices of Landaff cheese (rinds and all!) and put ‘em between the bread
Slice your ‘Hotties’ lengthwise as well so they’re not quite so big and chunky. Layer the slices atop the cheese and press the focaccia closed.
In a medium-hot skillet, grill your sandwich, preferably with some kind of weight on top of it to smush it down, panini-style.
Toast till golden brown. Wait for your cheese to get nice and gooey… the best things in life take time!
Eat and repeat.
come and try a stickle
The Stickle is composed of two elements. A pickle and a stick.
Welcome the Stickle! It’s a Rick’s Picks Kool Gherk pickle artfully mounted on a popsicle stick. It’s a happening, grab-and-go snack and you can be one of the first to have one tomorrow, when the Stickle makes its debut at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene. I’ll be on hand making Stickles from scratch (I’ve been practicing). And the best news… the Stickle only costs a buck. Big flavor, low-sodium snacking. See you there!
towards a more sustainable and conscionable food system
poster for the FRESH screening
Tonight we’re joining our friends at Whole Foods and some of our favorite fellow local vendors for a screening of the film FRESH, to be followed by a panel discussion on the future of food and how we can contribute to a more sustainable and conscionable food system.
The event is tonight at 6:30 at Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street. Here’s the menu for the reception to follow (in case you can’t tell our contribution is Phat Beets). See you there!
yum, yum, yum.
