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…
Recipes for Making and Cooking with Fermented Foods by Mary Karlin Please don’t buy this book or at least don’t follow the guidance in this book. This is great for a coffee table book with lots of big pretty pictures. If you want to buy a book about how to…
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…