Showing posts with label fermentation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fermentation. Show all posts
Monday, February 21, 2022

The Fermentation Files (Ginger Beer/Not Beer)

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Small batch fermenting is one of my favorite things to do. I love to make sauerkraut, kim chee, and kosher dill pickles. During milk season ...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Preserving Log (Late Summer 2020)

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I’ve been on an absolute tear in the kitchen the last two weeks. Late August/early September is the middle harvest season (Mabon is coming r...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

High Cheese Season 2020 (Making Do)

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            A middle stage in the making of cheddar  In last week’s post on preserving, I forgot to include cheese. Cheese is kind of the wh...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

State of the Farm: Pandemic Edition

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The girls amuse themselves at home with Henna freckles  DQ2 - day two of “quarantine.” We aren’t officially quarantined, of course, and not ...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

The Fermentation Files (Pickle-Palooza)

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I’ve been doing a lot of fermentation lately. There was the rhubarb wine this spring, which I bottled a few weeks ago (and sampled while I ...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Fermentation Files, Spring 2019

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Spring finally sprang, and we’ve had a few weeks of beautiful weather. The grass grew all at once, the trees blossomed, and the rhubarb plan...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

The Fermentation Files (Plum Edition)

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Italian plum trees are known for having an alternating harvest: one very heavy year alternating with a very light year. As everyone who ha...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Preserving Log 9/18

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Arrived home from Oaxaca ten days ago. In that time we had a lot to do to get the kids ready for school- go shopping for supplies and clothe...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

The Fermentation Files (Spring 2018)

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As usual, I have a couple of different fermentations going on in the kitchen. At this point in time, after years of tinkering and experime...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Brewing Notes (Cider and Wine)

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Mainly just notes for myself so I don't forget when I did what. Today I racked the rhubarb wine into a clean carboy. It's been about...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

Preserving Journal

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High Summer is upon us. Although I have yet to change the altar - it's still dressed with the kids' report cards and end-of-scho...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Sprout Kraut

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What do you do with too many Brussels Sprouts (courtesy of the gleaner's pantry)? I'm gonna try Sprout Kraut. 
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Fall Fermentation (Wine and Cider)

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Plum wine in the autumn sun  The satisfactions of living off of one's own land are many and varied. It is, for example, delightf...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The Fermentation Files (High Summer Edition)

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My High Summer Altar It is the highest point of high summer. The sun is strong and steady and the pastures are pure gold, without an...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Fermentation Files (Sourdough)

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A couple of months ago, a neighbor gave me some sourdough starter that had been in her family for a very long time. The label on the contain...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Well, That Was Fast

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It only took me a day and a half to kill the kefir grains I was given. I have no idea what I did wrong - I only added a half cup of my own m...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

What's Growing in my Kitchen (the Fermentation Files)?

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There's a new bookstore in town, and when I went in to check it out, I found this irresistible book: Much more than a recipe bo...
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