But Wait-There's More!

Are you like me? Are you sitting at home right now wondering,

"What am I going to do with ALL THESE McClure's Pickles!!!?".

Well, what if I told you there are as many ways to use your McClure's Pickles as there are uses for a George Foreman Grill, maybe even MORE?

Eat them straight out of the jar
Drink the juice straight out of the jar
Use any left over juice in your jar to turn your crappy store bought pickles into
delicious McClure's wanna be pickles.
Use the juice for dirty martinis

Use the juice for a delicious Bloody Mary mix
Make pickle pasta
Use the juice as your "secret ingredient" in your coleslaw
Use the juice as a chaser for your whiskey shots

FRY THEM!!



AND what if I told you that you could get one jar of pickles plus the juice for at least TEN other delicious pickle creations for just pennies a day!!!?

CALL NOW while this offer lasts: www.mcclurespickles.com

Pickle Pasta

I realize that this dish may not be for everyone...but here it is--my recipe for Pickle Pasta...don't be afraid, it's delicious!

Let me stress that I feel it is essential to use McClure's juice, etc. for this dish. Ok, so first you just add a little olive oil to your pan, and to that add some dill, chopped garlic, peppers and juice from a jar of Spicy McClure's Pickles and saute.














Boil your pasta and drain it, then toss it in the pan with all the spicy, yummy pickle stuff. I like to garnish mine with a pepper from the jar and a dollop of McClure's Spicy Relish.

McClure's Month

Well, September is almost over and I realized that all of my posts this month have been about McClure's Pickles, so why not just go ahead and make September "McClure's Month"!?

Ok.Done. I hope this power doesn't go to my head.

BEST.DAY.EVER.

It was the BEST DAY EVER....

...and it was all a blur.

I just don't know how to tell you about my Pickle Fest experience. I can either give you a breakdown of all the small things I did that day OR I can just tell you that it was the closest I've ever gotten to Pickle Heaven...to be SURROUNDED by cases and stacks and vats of McClure's Pickles. The smell alone was enough to put me over the top. Pickle ecstasy.


My duty that morning was to prepare samples for the tables with a constant line of people waiting for a taste. I lined up cups on a tray and plopped a dollop of relish and a spoon in each one. There are 2 types of relish, just like the pickles: Spicy and Garlic Dill. In addition to the relish and pickles, we also served "shots" of tomato juice mixed with the spicy brine and as time went on, I slowly achieved a zen-like mastery to pouring the samples. Ok, not really, I just decided to drink all the un-uniform ones or the ones I spilled.



At some point The Apple Sisters showed up and crammed pickles in their mouths and sang. I've gotta go see one of their shows SOON.


The day went by so quickly, I barely had time to say anything other than "hello, nice to meet you" to everyone I worked with. I also missed out on all the other stuff going on that day, like pickles on a stick and a pickle ice cream demonstration but I just didn't care. I was working at the best tent in the joint. I can't thank everyone enough for allowing me to be part of such a hot, spicy, pickle-y day! Thanks to Bob, Joe, Ani, Adam, Matt and Jonathan.

Also, I want to thank Charles, Xan, Molly, Anna, Mary and Matt for coming. And a big thank you to George for NOT coming and embarrassing me in front of the McClure's! Thanks again to everyone at McClure's--look at that pickle GLOW I have!!! If only every day were Pickle Day!!!

PICKLE DAY IS HERE!!!!!!!!!

The day I wait for anxiously year after year is finally here!!

SUNDAY, September 14th is International Pickle Day!

This year I'll be under one of those tents slicing up, handing out and selling pickles to one and all. You can see from the photo that much like a Gun & Knife show, it's gonna be PACKED-so come early and grab a pickle before we eat them all!

George on McClure's

Katy Pickles,
Thanks for misquoting me. What I really said is "These things will make me fart at work!"
Anyway I held on to those pickles for a few days because I knew that once I opened the lid I wouldn't be able to stop. And that's exactly what happened.
I ate the whole damn jar of pickles. Maybe I left one but I don't think so. All that was left was the fixings and I plan to make a bloody Mary with that this weekend.
I do plan to buy a shit load at the pickle fair if I can pry them out of your grubby paws. I'll bring a taser gun just in case you won't give 'em up.
George

Falling For McClures

I talk about pickles alot...ok, ALL THE TIME...and when I do, I ALWAYS go on and on about my favorite pickles in the whole world, yet I've never declared my love for them on Pickle Freak. Why? I dunno. I guess I wanted it to be special...I can be a little shy sometimes...but I can't wait any longer.


Mom, Dad, I want you to meet someone very special in my life: McClure's Pickles.

I discovered McClure's over a year ago online... I guess I had been googling spicy pickles at work (again) and I came across the website and later headed over to Williamsburg to buy some. When I got them home I realized that everything was about to change.

Up to that point my favorite pickles were expensive ones from Dean & Delucca and they were $14 a jar. DAMN.Since they were so expensive I limited myself to one or two a day and made myself eat the cheaper "everyday pickles" that I ordered from Texas in the meantime...but once I had McClure's, I knew there was no turning back, there would be no more "everyday pickles" unless they were McClure's...So I figured in order to offset my pickle expenses I was just going to have to keep quiet about them. If I start TELLING people how good they are, well, they're gonna want to TRY them and I'm not sharing mine. Nope. You've gotta get your OWN.

A little while later it was time for the Lower East Side's International Pickle Festival so I bullied a group of folks into going and introduced them all to my new (pickle) love. It would be safe because they could all buy their own! I also introduced my real love to McClure's AND to the full extent of my crazed pickle "enthusiasm"...he still pretends to struggle to understand but when I catch him drinking out of a pickle jar I get a little weak in the knees...so I'm pretty sure he's comin' around.

That day at the Pickle Fest we loaded up with as many jars of McClure's as we could, a day that made me YEARN for a shopping cart and a CAR...or a freight truck, or at least a pack mule. They come in 2 varieties: Spicy and Garlic. Both are AMAZING but spicy is my favorite. The jars are packed with the prettiest flowering dill, garlic and peppers. I recently gave a jar to a friend as a gift (I owed him big time) and he exclaimed, "These are a work of ART!". I know.



What I especially love about these pickles is that every single thing in the jar BESIDES the pickles is just as amazing as the pickles themselves. I drink the juice and use it to make the BEST pickle martinis, and I use the garlic, dill and peppers in cooking ( I have a new dish I call "Pickle Pasta"). They also make a relish now (spreadable pickles!) and I think they may have a Bloody Mary mix in the works...but in the meantime, you can just fill your half empty pickle jar with vodka and tomato juice and make the BEST Bloody Mary in the world!


ANYWAY, the whole point of introducing y'all to my pickle crush is to brag that this year at the 8th Annual International Pickle Festival I will be SELLING McClure's Pickles. I am so excited to be able to share these pickles with EVERYONE without them coming out of my own personal STASH!