Fermented Food Adventures & Recipes
First off, this isn’t sauerkraut but it’s a dish I love and I think you will too. It does have some affinity with kraut in the way it is cut and flavored. It gets a slightly sour tang from vinegar and uses popular European kraut flavorings such as caraway, cumin […]
One country that may eat and love cabbage with even greater zeal than Germany is Russia (along with its slavic neighbors like Poland, Ukraine and Belarus). This is one of those foods, like chickpeas in the Middle East, that grows robustly in that area, is cheap, hardy, accessible, and nutritious, […]
A few times a year I make a bunch of good ol’ classic cole slaw, for a burger & dog barbecue, or with tacos, a pulled pork sandwich, that kind of thing. It’s always delicious; this is my own recipe from scratch and is exactly how I make it. Cole […]
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 […]
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 […]
This recipe was a small batch of curry flavored sauerkraut. There are many ways to make curry. Some might add or take certain spices but this gives you a baseline from which to work. Think of all the things you could eat this with and on. Sausage, hot dogs, burgers, […]
When putting together this baechu (Napa cabbage) kimchi ferment/recipe, I remembered the boatloads of clementines we had in the fridge and it hit me – some fresh squeezed juice and orange zest would be a great add to kimchi. The sugars help feed the lactic acid-producing bacteria (LABs) present on […]
I planted a dozen cabbages this year and just harvested the rest of what there was, just as we hit December here in the Atlanta area. They’re delicious and crispy but on the small side, so I needed several for a half gallon kraut, as you see in the photo […]
Making a delicious, healthy, probiotic-rich sauerkraut is within your reach. Don’t go for the vinegar preserved so-called kraut on store shelves, and you can skip the pricey fermented kraut at natural food stores. This is something you can make inexpensively (even organic cabbage is usually around $1.49/lb.), and with a […]