Updated 07/14/18 Click here to go straight to the recipe. Why have I never made these until now? Crunchy, sour, fermented watermelon rind pickles: Are easy to make Taste delicious Contain good microbes, which improve your health Cost basically nothing (you bought the melon for the fruit after all) Reduce waste I feel like a […]
Sandor Katz
Sourdough Crackers
Click here to go straight to the recipe I had hoped to write a blog about sourdough starter for my first post. And then my second. Then my third. (This is post twenty-six.) You can probably find entire books devoted to starter alone. There’s so much to know and food scientists today still make discoveries about […]
Beet Kvass
Updated 10/02/17 I can’t remember which company, touting its latest chemical- and sugar-laden beverage, described water as a “yawn in a glass,” but that irresponsible yet effective marketing message stuck with me. You have to admire Big Food’s audacity and creativity. Well, maybe not admire. Acknowledge? (I just watched Fed Up last night, so I may sound […]
How to Make Simple Sauerkraut with Live Cultures
I have canned food in the past. It was delicious but a lot of work. I had to pick the plums from my tree (and pick up the hundreds that had fallen on the grass), wash them, cut them, peel them, chop them, cook them with lots of sugar and then finally can the jam […]