Kimchi Cheese Dip (“Kim-cheezy”)
Let us not kid ourselves. This ain’t a daily or weekly recipe, folks. It is a super indulgent (yet nutrient-dense) cheese dip, usually made for parties, and it’s a real …
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Fermented Hot Sauce
Hot sauce can take anywhere from a few weeks to 4 to 6 months to ferment. I tend to let mine go on the longer side. My most recent batch …
Fermenting, Food, and Freedom
Last week, I went to Tennessee to learn about fermented foods. I came home with a deeper appreciation of not only food, but freedom itself and what it means in the …
Lentil Hummus with Dill Pickles
We’re always looking for ways to incorporate fermented foods into other dishes. Here’s a nice way to flavor hummus, using fresh dill and fermented garlic dill cucumbers. Like any legume, …
Hot Cereal (Porridge)
Traditional cultures knew that to properly access all the nutrition in grains, soaking or fermenting was necessary. Fermenting seeds, nuts and grains makes them more digestible and unlocks minerals for …
How to Make Homemade Koji
Koji is a cereal grain (like rice or barley) that has been inoculated with the mold Aspergillus oryzae. As this mold (whose family members include molds that form on bread …
Beet ‘n’ Sour (Sweet) Pickles
In the pantheon of pickledom, must they ALL be sours? Is there any room for a bread and butter, sweet pickle, at least a respectable old-fashioned (read: fermented) version? The …
Cultured Coconut “Yogurt”
Fiendishly simple, this fluffy vegan coconut cream based “yogurt” uses water kefir (tibicos) as the fermentation agent. It creates a light, fluffy (almost like whipped cream), effervescent texture, and a …
Buffalo Tempeh
I was determined to make tempeh taste like SOMETHING?!! Buffalo-style, battered in egg & sprouted flour, fried in coconut oil, and finished with pastured butter and hot sauce. It worked! …
Sour Cream
It’s quite simple to make your own sour cream, using only good quality heavy cream, and a little store-bought sour cream as your “starter”. By making sour cream yourself, you …
