Fermented Food Adventures & Recipes
Passover is just around the corner. Well, six weeks might not be just around the corner to some, but in the fermenting world that’s no time. For maror, horseradish, I recommend at least several weeks to a month ferment time, and starting now like I’ve done is all the better. […]
Does sriracha sauce have to be red? I think you have the answer in the title. But if you want to make a red fermented sriracha, and/or get lots of advice on making a sauce safe for shipping or sharing (i.e. making it non-explosive), click here and read through that […]
Not to toot my own horn, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen kkakdugi that wasn’t red or white (meaning no red pepper powder added). So, welcome to the revolution! This is the third (but believe it or not, not my final) installment of my color-kimchi series. Here are the […]
This recipe can be used to make lox – salt cured salmon, also known as gravlax – with notes of sweet and sour citrus. The finished product will be a luxury food of significantly higher caliber than anything you can find prepackaged or even in most delis, and at a […]
A “ginger bug” is a natural soda “starter” you can easily make at home. In other words, like other fermented foods, it contains healthy bacteria and wild yeasts which convert sugars into things like acids, CO2, and alcohol. In fact, alcohol in ginger bug sodas is negligible because of the […]
So a couple months back, I provided my recipe for one of my all-time favorite spice mixes / dry rubs: Montreal Steak Seasoning. (Mostly referred to as MSS from here on out as I’m feeling lazy…) One of my goals behind getting that recipe up was to later post some […]
For my discussion of why I started experimenting with colorful kimchis (besides the obvious answer of “why not!?”), I invite you to check out my original color-kimchi post, jalapeno-cilantro-lime green kimchi, here. I debated for a long time about what to put in it. There are so many amazing orange […]
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It’s interesting that the big-name brands of sauerkraut you find in mainstream supermarkets are never purple. These brands aren’t normally fermented, but rather are vinegar brined. Even when they are fermented (or at least saltwater brined), they’re later pasteurized and consequently lose all their healthy probiotic activity and become mushy […]
We all have those moments where an idea strikes us from out of the blue. Or out of the green, in this instance. At first my idea was simply: “Why is Kimchi always red? There’s so many different colors and flavors of pepper.” And then I thought about how kimchi […]