Real Food Fermentation is a great book for anyone interested in the preservation of food at home. Sure you can throw your groceries in the fridge when you get home from the store, but why not take it a step further? Mr. Lewin runs the gauntlet in this book, helping…
My old supervisor, Jeremy, asked if I make yogurt. He’d been wanting to try it and it’s really pretty easy. Here’s a simple recipe for Homemade Yogurt. The trick is to find a good culture. I looked at the supermarket for yogurt with live cultures and actually found quite a…
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…