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.
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11 Sourdough Discard Recipes
Even if you never bake the bread, you may want to keep a sourdough starter alive to make these sourdough discard recipes.
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.
Avoid Shopping a Bit Longer During Covid
Food shopping during Covid is stressful. These ideas will help you avoid the store for a bit longer between shopping trips.
What to Eat During a Heat Wave or Power Outage
Record heat and rolling blackouts. The show (or dinner) must still go on. These ideas will satisfy your appetite without heating up the kitchen.
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.
Sourdough Discard Pizza: How to Sourdough-ize a Recipe
Many recipes are suitable for adding sourdough discard to—quick or yeast breads, muffins, tortillas, focaccia—and this pizza dough.
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.
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.
Hunkered Down During COVID-19? Make Something.
Millions of us will stay hunkered down at home during COVID-19, either out of necessity or precaution. Now seems like a great time to learn a new skill.