Fermented Food Adventures & Recipes
Like mole, this sauce relies heavily on dried peppers. They can indeed be used in fermentation, but you need sources of fresh produce in there – I advise roughly 50% – in order to provide the healthy bacteria that makes fermentation possible. Although the sweetness of traditional mole comes in […]
As a kid growing up in south Florida surrounded by Jewish delis, my older brother introduced me early on to Dr. Brown’s sodas, including the unique “Cel-Ray” soda and I’ve enjoyed it since. This soda has been a staple in Jewish delicatessens for almost a hundred years, and was first […]
It’s the balm, yo! This ginger bug soda is delicious and refreshing on a hot summer day, but it might be even better as a mixer with my cucumber vodka and a touch of lemon balm syrup. This recipe just deals with making the ginger bug soda. Once you make […]
Infusing your vodka or other spirits with fruit, veggie, and/or herbal flavors is about as easy as placing it in your vodka for a week. Just make sure to strain it after. Each summer, I’m on a mission to make as many cucumber pickles as I can from my garden […]
Writing this post feels pretty cathartic for me. Although loading up a Reuben sandwich and frying it on a pan is pretty darn straightforward, this post is the culmination of many different pho-spiced Reuben components I developed over a month. If you want to see how I personally prepare & […]
Believe it or not, the mint family has over 6,000 species. Lemon balm is a part of this family, and like the many varieties of mint popular in the US, it grows rapidly and perennially in a wide range of conditions. For this reason, growing members of this family will […]
I’ve seen people get annoyed when you call a sauce “sriracha” and it deviates from simply red hot peppers, garlic, salt, sugar, and vinegar. Furthermore, sriracha is a raw sauce, so does fermenting it (and therefore eliminating the requirement of vinegar) also make it no longer sriracha? These are deep […]
When I came up with this vinegar (i.e. unfermented) pickle recipe, I had made fermented “phokra” several times. (That name is a no-brainer of course.) I love that stuff and plan to post a recipe at some point. Fermented foods are rich in probiotic bacteria and have tremendous flavor. On […]
I’m excited to share this recipe. It’s really delicious and the addition of the pho spice really puts it over the top flavor wise. This is the corned beef I used in my Pho Reuben sandwich. I devoted a whole section of my website to this epic meal because I […]
My fruit sriracha explorations continue. This was made with sweet frozen black cherries. Frozen foods have marketing challenges in that they may seem inferior to fresh. But there are some good things about frozen: So grab yourself a pound of high quality frozen cherries (I’d recommend a well-received organic brand) […]