In 2009 we published “The Holm Family Cookbook” with our mother, an aunt, and a cousin. We started this blog at that time and maintained it for a few years, so many of the posts are a bit dated, but the recipes are still good!
It's asparagus season here in Northern California, which means it’s time to pickle! Plus, I just finished off the final jar of asparagus from last year. Five of us gathered together for the task that lay ahead, we find that there’s strength in numbers! We were...
There seems to be a renaissance in pickling these days, even amongst our family. This year we pickled 45 quarts of asparagus, resurrected our Grandmother’s Danish Pickle recipe after 20 some odd years of slumber, and also whipped up some Dills,...
A Tilli Holm Calhoun painting of some of the Danish pickles served by our Grandmother When we were growing up our grandmother, Ione Holm or Granny to us, would almost always set out a dish of her sweet and tangy Danish pickles at special family events. The pickles...
Pickled asparagus During May a small group of friends and relatives reserved a Saturday to pickle asparagus. My sister Nancy's sister-in-law bought three cases of asparagus from Victoria Island Farms near Stockton and shared her knowledge and family recipe...