In a pickle places

We've been trying to spread pickle love all around this summer! 

 

In addition to hitting the White Rock Local Market we've taken on the St. Michael's Market in Dallas. We're making more product and sharing splendiferous moments with folks all over!

Here's a few of our venues -  Sweet and Spicy Pickles are in Sassy's in Rockport, TX, and in Fort Worth Vending Company.  Want them to come to you? Check out Greenling, they carry our products and bring them to you! Our splendiferous IAP  jams and pickles are in Port Aransas,TX...  You can find our pickles and jams all the way to Melville, NYand in our own back yard at Feastivities and Danette's Urban Oasis. And you can find us making more great products like Blue Blueberry Lime JAM... Strawberry Vanilla JAM... . Peach Cinnamon... and yummy Peach Chocolate.

We'll be in the Dallas/Fort Worth this weekend so drop by the  Celebration Farmers Market AND St. Michael's Farmers Market!!! Mark your calendar this Saturday 8am-12noon!!!!!  There's one thing for sure, wherever you find IAP products, you're sure to notice... life's greatest moments start in a pickle!

Four picks for the Fourth

We thought we would share four of our favorite in a PiCKLE recipes for the Fourth.  We hope everyone has a safe and fun day celebrating our nation's bday!

in a PiCKLE Firecracker Delight

1 16oz slab of cream cheese
1/2 jar of iap tomato jam
1/4 cup of pecans toasted and chopped
2 TLBS of chopped iap peppers from iap sweet & spicy pickles


Pour 1/2 jar of iap tomato jam on top of the slab of cream cheese.  Add 1/4 cup of pecans and the chopped peppers.  Serve with your favorite cracker.

iap Bacon Tomato Dip

8 slices of bacon, chopped
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup mayo
2 TLBS of iap tomato jam
1 1/2 cups Swiss cheese, shredded
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 cup smoked almonds, chopped

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  Brown bacon in skillet over medium high heat.  Drain on a paper towel.  Mix cream cheese, mayo, jam, cheese and onions with cooked bacon bits.  Bake in a small shallow dish until golden and bubbly, about 15-18 minutes... top with chopped almonds.  Serve warm with carrots, chips and/or crackers.

iap Brisket Pies

vegetable oil for frying
1 can large buttermilk biscuits
1 cup of shredded cooked brisket
8 oz Swiss cheese, shredded
1/2 cup of iap sweet and spicy pickles
1 pkg of cubed ham
mustard for dipping

Fill a cast iron skillet about 1/2 inch deep with oil and heat to about 350 degrees F.  Remove biscuits from can, flour and roll each one out to a 5-inch round.  Place 1 heaping TBLS of shredded brisket on each round leaving 1/2 inch edge all around.  Top the brisket with equal amounts of shredded cheese and iap pickles and ham.  Place another rolled out round on top of the filling, place egg wash around the edges and press the edges to seal.  Dip end of fork in flour and press around the edge for extra sealing.  Repeat with remaining bisquits.  Dip the "pies" into the oil and fry for about 2 minutes per side or until golden brown.  Drain on paper towels.  Have some spicy mustard on the side for dipping!

iap Fig & Lemon Bread Appetizers

Pumpernickel bread, sliced and slightly toasted
5 oz Blue cheese Crumbles
1 onion, sliced
2 TBLS butter
1 jar iap Fig & Lemon Preserves

Add butter to a hot pan and melt, add onion slices and a dash of salt - stir frequently until the onion slices are soft and browned, about 20 minutes.  Remove and drain on paper towel.

Butter individual bread slices with iap Fig & Lemon preserves, add a few carmelized onions, topping with blue cheese crumbles. 



Our first appearance at the new  Farmer's Market at The Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church located in Dallas at 8011 Douglas was a great success!!! Thanks for all of the pickle peeps that came out... Please watch for us at Dallas' Celebration Market this Saturday and repeat performances at Dallas' White Rock Local Market and St. Michael's.  


Life's greatest moments start in a PiCKLE!
 

What's Cookin'?

We've been busy whipping up some delicious artisan jams in the kitchen this week. Peach Cinnamon... Peach Chocolate... Blueberry lime... Strawberry vanilla.... SPLENDIFEROUS!

 

You can catch us at White Rock Local Market this Saturday, or wholesalers - at the Dallas Gourmet Market... and starting June 30 in Dallas at Saint Michael and All Angels north parking lot from 8am until 12pm. The Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church is located at 8011 Douglas in Dallas.  in a pickle foods will be there the first and third weekend of each month... come on out and try our pickles and artisan seasonal jams and you will discover our secret... life's greatest moments start in a pickle!

in a pickle welcomes summer with this delightfully refreshing salad...


Spinach, Berry and Brie Salad

baby spinach leaves
15 snow peas (blanched)
brie cheese (cut into wedges)
1/2 cup of blueberries
black pepper
in a pickle italian dressing




iap dressing
2 TBLS of iap peach cinnamon jam
olive oil
champagne vinegar to taste 
sea salt and cracked black pepper
Whip the ingredients together and drizzle over the salad



Combine all ingredients,  and drizzle with iap dressing.  Serve this with nice crusty bread!

in a pickle Goes Solar

Solar Powered Music Festival

Cowtown Chowdown

in a pickle is gearing up for Fort Worth's first solar powered festival!  The Solar Festival  is from 2 until 11pm this Saturday on the banks of the Trinity river... more specific... Panther Island Pavilion.  Our fancy food truck will be there serving up some incredibly scrumptious, smoked brisket.  It's becoming a James Special at the Cowtown Chowdown and he's going all out this weekend.  Stop by and experience chef James' Brisket Nachos, Brisket Sandwich, Cheese Krinkle Kut Fries (slathered with iap cheese queso, and topped with brisket and Tony Cacheres...BTW... James loves this one... and your gonna love these loaded potato fries too!  OR how 'bout our brisket pie, iap signature smoked brisket piled high on iap spicy mac and cheese topped off with sprinkles of corn chips... life doesn't get much better... The Solar Fest... Fun Times..  Great musical acts like The Romantics and The English Beat ... and one of our favs - Dallas' own Michael Donner and the Southern Renaissance Band.  

So come out and see us and tell us what you are in a pickle for... we've been busy cookin' in the kitchen!  We've retired our Apple Bourbon Cinnamon and Lemony Pear Vanilla Jams for the summer... but peaches we've got'em!. We're cooking up some small batches of Peach  Chocolate and Peach Cinnamon Jam  and we're excited to be sending out to Zingerman's mail order... Zingerman's, located in Michigan sends extraordinary, traditionally made foods and artisan type foods anywhere in America. FOOD & WINE magazine calls Zingerman's one of the top 24 food markets in the world.  


We'll see you at the Solar Fest .  Remember life's greatest moments start when you are in a pickle!

Pickles Rock at White Rock

Hey there pickle peeps!!!  We'll be rockin' this weekend in Dallas at one of our fav farmers' markets... the White Rock EVERYTHING Market

 ... you can find all kinds of things at their special EVERYTHING market ... so drop by... we'll be there with small batches of our harvested goodies!

We've been in the kitchen this week with blueberries, pickles and pears rockin' our world.  There's no better feeling than to hit the kitchen bright and early to start our batches of homemade goodness. It looks like our name is finally getting out there!  More and more are discovering in a pickle foods!!!  This week we've had new orders from Gilbert Pecan Company and San Antonio's Guenther House.

And while we meet new friends... look for our fancy food truck at the Solar Powered Music Festival next weekend held along the banks of the Trinity in Fort Worth's Uptown (gates open at 2 pm Saturday and the party continues through 11 that night)...we keep the old ones too... we'll be back at the Cowtown Chow Down this Friday and Saturday featuring James' melt-in-your-mouth brisket on Texas Toast, our sweet and spicy pickles and a smear of our tomato jam... ooh boy, that's what we're talkin' about!  We'll also have our signature grilled PB&Strawberry Vanilla Jam, fried pickles, fried peppers and don't count us out on surprises... life's greatest moments start ...

James with our original sweet and spicy label!

 when you're in a pickle!

Pickle pounding

Most of our readers probably don't know what a pounding is... It was started a long time ago by the Quakers and is an old fashioned way of helping someone stock their pantry. It was really handy for newlyweds or others just starting out... Well we are here to offer you in a pickle help ... A pickle pounding.


Our sweet and spicy pickles are a great pantry staple for all those times that you need a quick appetizer or just a little something to spice up a dish... Use them as an appetizer and serve them with Buttermilk Ranch dressing... Or stock up on our other products like our artisan jams... Just like grandma used to make.


Don't forget to add several jams to your selection. No pantry would be complete without our tomato or our orangey fig jam. It's what makes morning toast DEVINE!!!


Okay are your taste buds hitting a high note??? Well they are about to sing the Hallelujah Chorus when they here our menu for our fancy food truck out at the Cowtown Chow Down this Friday and Saturday!!!


We'll have pimento cheese stuffed sliders; tacos, Sloppy Joes, IAP brisket sandwiches with our tomato jam and... back by pickle peep demand.... IAP hummus with pita chips... Grilled in a pickle PB&Jam (strawberry vanilla) sandwiches and for a little bit of southern sweetness ... A Texas sheet cake that'll have you singing "Sweet Splendiferous" ... As one of our readers pontificated, "YUM-YUM!"
Top it off with a wholesome swig of Holy Kombucha... that's what we are talking' about!


We serve from 11 to 2 and 5-10... Come say, "Hey" and stock up too... We're starting a pickle pounding in your world!

LIFE'S GREATEST MOMENTS START in a pickle.

in a pickle sweet & spicy sightings

Many of you have asked where our in a pickle fancy food trailer will be this week and through Memorial Day... Pickle Peeps will be able to find us at Cowtown Chow Down beginning Friday, May 25 through Memorial Day and we'll also be at one of our favs on Saturday, White Rock Local Market in Dallas.

AND  JAM ALERT... there's a limited supply of our peach and cinnamon jam so get it while you can at Bolsa - we have a delivery on Saturday!!!








Splendiferous artisan jams you can count on this weekend until they are gone are:  

Sweet & Spicy Tomato;                                       

Orangey Fig;     

Apple Bourbon Cinnamon; 

Strawberry Vanilla.  

What are you in a pickle for?  Let us know!

 



And come on out to Cowtown Chow Down this weekend and stop by and say, "Hey..." 


 

We'll be cooking up some in a pickle  Devilish Egg Salad... and SPLENDIFEROUS SANDWICHES... how 'bout our grilled and toasted pickle Pimento Cheese, or our perfecto PB&Jam, or in a pickle's Chow Down Chicken Salad... that's what we're talking about... can you say INCREDIBLE?  Pair your sandwich with some slaw that will make you want to sit up and say SERIOUSLY?  You can order our sassy, sweet & spicy pickles on the side as well, and don't forget to wash it down with HOLY KAMBUCHA's Blood Orange and Green Apple Ginger... It's naturally GREAT! 

We got  you covered this holiday weekend... make it a pickle perfect one and don't forget...

 

Life's greatest moments     start                              

in a pickle!