Why buy acetic acid solution at the store when you can make something delicious to use in your recipes?
Acetobacters have a difficult time breaking down alcohol in concentrations greater than 9%. If you want to make wine vinegar, you will probably need to dilute your starting wine with water before adding the mother culture. On this week’s YouTube video, I show how to use cheap red wine to make…
Here’s the printed recipes to my video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-F8ykWfiTZg Ketchup that is NOT 1/3 sugarSuper easy way to whiz up some mayonnaise in seconds!
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…
I wanted to make Pico de Gallo, but all my tomatoes rotted on the vines. So, I decided to pickle the pepper crop instead. Sort through your peppers. Use only the best, most beautiful peppers. Peppers that have mold spots, rots, cracks, and brown areas are just going to get…
The wild raspberries are ripe! We found them first at Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park and then in the woods, across the street from my daughter’s house in Sandy Spring! I couldn’t resist. I do not like picking berries in the fields — too many relapses of childhood memories growing up working…
Ok. I REALLY want to make some vinegar. It’s been a couple weeks and I don’t have a big-slimy-mother-thing floating on the top of ANY of my vinegar jars. I want to brew vinegar and I can’t find a vinegar mother. I’ve been mixing Bragg’s Natural Apple Cider (with the mother) with…
Making homemade cider vinegar these days is harder than it used to be. Because of food additives and preservatives, our beverages won’t sour and turn to vinegar. So we launch another vinegar experiment. This is a bottle of organic cider purchased from Whole Foods. I pitched it with one…
18 hard boiled eggs, peeled 5 raw beets, peeled and sliced 1 onion, peeled and sliced 2 cup vinegar 2 cup sugar 1 tablespoon whole cloves 1 teaspoon salt Mix and heat until boiling, vinegar, sugar, whole cloves and salt. Add sliced beets and reboil. Simmer for about 30 minutes to…
Here’s an alternative to pickles made from cucumbers. Try pickling some beans! This dilly bean recipe works well on old, late-season beans that you don’t want to throw away. Be sure to put lots of peeled garlic cloves in each jar. They give the beans a great flavor and we…