Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
The deep red-orange, slightly nutty-tasting cooking oil known as annatto oil (or achiote oil) is a common ingredient in Latin American cooking. Whether you use it to infuse your Mexican rice with color and flavor, or to marinate chicken or pork.
I had lots of peppers to preserve. I assumed Italian style preservation would be just olive oil, but every recipe I found was more towards pickling, and so I developed this Pickled Pepper in Oil recipe and it is great for all kinds of peppers!
Tuna preserved in olive oil is the pride of the Calabrian pantry. Once you taste good tuna preserved this way you will never eat canned tuna from the supermarket again!