When it comes to pickles, homemade pickles are hard to beat. Of course, you can toss a jar into your grocery cart, but they're so easy to make at home — and you can control the texture, the flavor, ...

The jars are rinsed, hand-spiced with our 11 ... and the one that surprised me most was horseradish pickles. It was a very strong flavor that I didn’t expect to be so good.