A turmeric bug, like a ginger bug, is a starter you prepare and nurture. Once it has matured, use it to brew naturally carbonated drinks.
Fermentation
Unsure How to Eat Persimmons? Make Cultured Chutney
Not sure what to do with persimmons? Make this sweet, sour, spicy and slightly salty chutney to serve with cold-weather main dishes.
Cultured Cashew Cheese
This tangy cultured cashew cheese contains a handful of ingredients and like my sourdough crackers, tastes cheesy but contains no cheese.
Free Sourdough Starter Zoom Class!
Mark your calendars! Free sourdough starter Zoom class on December 3rd. Bring a jar, flour and water and we’ll make our starters together.
Sourdough Starter Metric and US Equivalents
Need to measure your sourdough starter but don’t have a scale? Have a recipe you’ll like to convert to US cups? Use these conversions.
Call the Midwife of Microbes
Is your sourdough starter sluggish? Your ginger beer jinxed? Your kombucha capricious? Apply to get a diagnosis via Instagram Live.
Sourdough Discard Vegan Carrot Cake
If you’ve adopted a pet sourdough, you’ll need to find recipes for the discard you accumulate from feedings. This carrot cake makes your discard disappear.
Sourdough Discard Vegan Chocolate Cake
Whether you’re new to sourdough or you’ve baked it for years, you can likely use another recipe for your discard, especially one for an easy chocolate cake.
Is My Sourdough Starter Dead? Your Starter Dilemmas Addressed
Need help coaxing your sourdough starter to life? What can you do with all the discard? And what is a levain? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
Online Sauerkraut Workshop Lottery
Enter this lottery for a spot in my sauerkraut class and learn how to make this living, cultured food. Bring a cabbage to class or just watch.
Online Sourdough Starter Workshop Lottery
Learn how to start a sourdough starter, how to feed it and what to do with it. Bring your tools, flour and water and we’ll make our starters together.
Bake Sourdough Bread Without the Expensive Tools
Don’t let a want of fancy tools squelch your dreams of baking delicious sourdough bread. You may have most of the gear you need.
4-Ingredient Naturally Carbonated Strawberry Soda
This starter-free strawberry soda is like the one-night stand of fermented drinks—no long-term commitment necessary.
By Popular Demand: Online LIVE Sourdough Bread Workshop
So many people have asked for it and here it is: an online, interactive, sourdough bread workshop Years ago I taught myself to make delicious sourdough bread—and didn’t bake a really good loaf for months. Drastically shorten your learning curve! The first person who took my sourdough bread class baked a wonderful loaf—on his first […]
Overcome Your Fear of Commitment—to Sourdough and Other Starters
I can’t look after more than four starters. My ginger bug Mary Ann, my kombucha SCOBY Etheldreda, my sourdough starter Eleanor and my buttermilk Betty all need regular feedings or they’ll die. I take care of this little family in addition to fermenting all sorts of other foods that don’t require starters—kimchi, dill pickles, chutney, […]