Fermented Celeriac and Apple Slaw
Celeriac (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum), also called turnip-rooted celery, celery root, or knob celery, is a variety of celery cultivated for its edible roots, hypocotyl, and shoots. Wait! It’s a hypocotyl?
Category: Fermented Foods Harnessing the power of bacteria and yeast to preserve food, make it more digestible, nutritious, and safer to eat.
Fermented Chickpea Hummus – My Battle with Lectins
I’m working on a recipe for fermented chickpea hummus. Ideally, I’d like to use raw chickpeas. Raw foods rule! Right? Or do they? Like other beans, raw chickpeas contain large amounts of lectin. Lectin is a protein that plants produce as a defense mechanism. When animals eat foods that contain…
How to Make a Ginger Bug
What is a Ginger Bug? A Ginger Bug is a naturally fermented culture that is used to carbonate probiotic beverages at home. You can make your own homebrewed ginger ale with a little patience and a little simple science. No, there are no bugs involved. Well, not insects, anyway.
How to Make Probiotic Sour Cream with Real Dairy
Delicious Full-Fat Sour Cream Like everything else that you make for yourself, homemade sour cream is delicious! And it’s super easy to make! So, click on the picture to watch the YouTube video and follow along as I show you how to make your own sour cream at home. I…
Lacto-Fermented Pickles
How to Make Lacto-Fermented Pickles The cucumbers are in season! What to do with so many cucumbers? Planting that extra hill of cukes seemed like a good idea last May. Here’s an idea: make pickles! Or, better yet, make lacto-fermented pickles! Cucumbers USED TO be fermented to preserve them. The pickles…
How to Make Fermented Onions
Believe it or not, pickled onions are actually quite delicious. During fermentation, they lose their sharp, acidic character and mellow quite nicely. Make these for use as a salad topping or to stick in sandwiches, or just to nibble on. Check out the video, above.
Ferment Your Own Homemade Ketchup
I don’t eat a lot of ketchup but when I do it seems way sweeter than it needs to be. Hmm. Nutritional Label: Serving size: 1 tablespoon. 3.7g of sugar per serving. uh-oh. I usually eat a couple of ounces of the stuff at a time. 2 T / oz…
Time for Homemade Sauerkraut
I love sauerkraut. I love it on hot dogs. I love to cook pork chops in it. I can get other people to eat it if I make reuben sandwiches and pile on lots of kraut. But I don’t like the crap from the store. Sometimes I wonder if that…
Brewing Kombucha At Home
I’ve been drinking Kombucha with my lunch lately. I buy it at the local cafe for $3.95 a 12oz bottle. Just today I realized I was breaking my own rules! This crap is expensive and mine would most likely taste better, be better for me, and fun to make! SO,…
Salumi mold?
This is a top round roast. Generally, a somewhat bland, lean, boring piece of beef. I thought it would be a good candidate for bresaola. Bresaola is a delicious salumi. No, I’m not spelling it wrong. It’s not salami. Salami is to hamburger what salumi is to a roast. Whole…
Harnessing the power of bacteria and yeast to preserve food, make it more digestible, nutritious, and safer to eat.
Fermented Chickpea Hummus – My Battle with Lectins
I’m working on a recipe for fermented chickpea hummus. Ideally, I’d like to use raw chickpeas. Raw foods rule! Right? Or do they? Like other beans, raw chickpeas contain large amounts of lectin. Lectin is a protein that plants produce as a defense mechanism. When animals eat foods that contain…
How to Make a Ginger Bug
What is a Ginger Bug? A Ginger Bug is a naturally fermented culture that is used to carbonate probiotic beverages at home. You can make your own homebrewed ginger ale with a little patience and a little simple science. No, there are no bugs involved. Well, not insects, anyway.
How to Make Probiotic Sour Cream with Real Dairy
Delicious Full-Fat Sour Cream Like everything else that you make for yourself, homemade sour cream is delicious! And it’s super easy to make! So, click on the picture to watch the YouTube video and follow along as I show you how to make your own sour cream at home. I…
Lacto-Fermented Pickles
How to Make Lacto-Fermented Pickles The cucumbers are in season! What to do with so many cucumbers? Planting that extra hill of cukes seemed like a good idea last May. Here’s an idea: make pickles! Or, better yet, make lacto-fermented pickles! Cucumbers USED TO be fermented to preserve them. The pickles…
How to Make Fermented Onions
Believe it or not, pickled onions are actually quite delicious. During fermentation, they lose their sharp, acidic character and mellow quite nicely. Make these for use as a salad topping or to stick in sandwiches, or just to nibble on. Check out the video, above.
Ferment Your Own Homemade Ketchup
I don’t eat a lot of ketchup but when I do it seems way sweeter than it needs to be. Hmm. Nutritional Label: Serving size: 1 tablespoon. 3.7g of sugar per serving. uh-oh. I usually eat a couple of ounces of the stuff at a time. 2 T / oz…
Time for Homemade Sauerkraut
I love sauerkraut. I love it on hot dogs. I love to cook pork chops in it. I can get other people to eat it if I make reuben sandwiches and pile on lots of kraut. But I don’t like the crap from the store. Sometimes I wonder if that…
Brewing Kombucha At Home
I’ve been drinking Kombucha with my lunch lately. I buy it at the local cafe for $3.95 a 12oz bottle. Just today I realized I was breaking my own rules! This crap is expensive and mine would most likely taste better, be better for me, and fun to make! SO,…
Salumi mold?
This is a top round roast. Generally, a somewhat bland, lean, boring piece of beef. I thought it would be a good candidate for bresaola. Bresaola is a delicious salumi. No, I’m not spelling it wrong. It’s not salami. Salami is to hamburger what salumi is to a roast. Whole…