If you’re here on my site, on this page in particular, then it’s a given you love hot & spicy, you love sriracha, and you can’t wait to find even more things to put it on. In this case, we’re also talking what to put it in. Because this recipe […]
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How to Make Low-Sodium Garlic Dill Pickles
Notes to newcomers to fermentation: If you want to get right to the recipe now, you can skip past this background discussion. A friend of my family once commented on how delicious my fermented classic garlic dill pickles looked. So I offered to make him a batch, but to my […]
How to Make Kiwi Simple Syrup
Can this be my shortest post ever? You need to know what’s in it, how to make it, and some ideas of what it’s good for (besides maybe just spooning it into your mouth at 2 am). Here we go: It’s delicious drizzled on fruit salad, ice cream & frozen […]
How to Make Tomatillo Salsa Verde
This isn’t a ferment recipe per se, although you can absolutely ferment it sitting in a sealed container on the shelf for a day or two or more for some added effervescence and depth of flavor. If you choose the fermented route, I’d suggest adding an additional 1/2 to 1 […]
How to Make Tepache Mojito
In case you didn’t know, I already have a “ginger-bug” mojito mixer recipe on this site. The original idea was to combine the wort (the sweetened liquid) with a ginger bug starter culture to produce a lime-mint soda which could also double as a mojito mixer. It’s really delicious on […]
How to Make Dilly Kraut
Dill was prized all over the ancient Near East and Mediterranean regions for its medicinal uses and positive impact on health. It also symbolized good luck. Dill is one of those herbs that just seems to work so well in all kinds of fermented and cured foods, from pickles, to […]
How to Make Scarborough Fair Pickles
“Are you going to Scarborough Fair?” That ballad’s beautiful refrain “Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme” is often playing in my head when I’m out in my herb garden this time of year. (I probably watched the Graduate too many times in high school.) And so I’ve had this thought for […]
How to Make Kefir Cultured (Probiotic) Sour Cream, Butter & Buttermilk
Kefir milk – that is, milk cultured with “kefir grains” – is a yogurt-like food with many healthy probiotic strains of bacteria and yeast. For a more complete discussion of kefir grains, how to to obtain them and make milk kefir and other recipes, visit my post here. Something less […]
Home Delivery: Fermented (Probiotic) Pickles, Kraut, Kimchi, & More
It’s my dream that one day this site can carry my own line of healthy, delicious, probiotic-rich foods. There’s a lot involved in getting there but maybe one day. In the meantime, this is a selection of highly rated fermented foods from Amazon. There’s a huge variety and I specifically […]
How to Make Strawracha Sauce
Ah, spring has sprung here in Georgia! And although the local strawberries are not quite ready, delicious berries from our wonderful neighbor to the south, Florida – my birthplace – are here in abundance and at reasonable prices. If you’ve ever perused this site and the sauce recipe section, then […]