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Kombucha: A Reintroduction to this Ancient Tonic

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This is a guest post from Hannah Crum – the fermenter extraordinaire and the woman behind Kombucha Kamp where she sells kombucha mothers, continuous brew kits and all things kombucha.I had the pleasure of first meeting Hannah at the Freestone Fermentation Festival this past May where we both spoke about the pleasures of fermented foods,  demoed our techniques [...]

A Recipe from the Garden: Vanilla Bean & Mint Extract

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Homemade mint extract, and other extracts, number among my favorite additions to desserts.  And, in keeping with most of the several real food recipes at Nourished Kitchen, it is shamefully easy to prepare and requires only a handful of ingredients.  And, in winter when my herbs are frozen over until the spring thaw, I rely [...]

A Recipe: Sourdough Focaccia with Grapes and Rosemary

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Sourdough focaccia with grapes, fresh rosemary and coarse sea salt found its way to our kitchen last week. Loosely adapted from the classic Italian grape bread or schiacciata con l’uva, this sourdough focaccia with grapes and rosemary takes an even more rustic approach – omitting enrichment by egg and sugar in favor of only the [...]

Stocking Up: A Recipe for Homemade Sauerkraut

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Homemade sauerkraut, in all its funky humility, is a favorite food in our home – particularly in wintertime when fresh, local produce is a rare treat and we rely on what we’ve put by over the summer and autumn months.  For us, this means lots of fermented foods and sauerkraut in particular. We grow cabbage [...]

Tomatoes Provençale & Where to Find Truly Good Olive Oil

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Tomatoes provençale, a simple dish that highlights the bounty of late summer gardens with its emphasis on fresh tomatoes, finds its way to our table almost daily in August when we buy heirloom tomatoes by the case at our local market.  Tomatoes, you see, don’t do well up here at 9,000 feet.  So we get [...]

Raw & Naturally Fermented: Salsa Verde

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Salsa verde, bright and hot and green, makes its way to our kitchen every August when tomatillos come into their season.  No, they don’t grow in our little corner of the community garden – the altitude is too high and the climate too cold, but they arrive in paper bags with our CSA and in [...]

Roots, Berries, Bark & Flowers: An Old-fashioned Recipe for Root Beer

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There’s an old-fashioned charm to homemade root beer with its odd array of roots and bark, flowers, leaves and berries.  It, like many other fermented beverages, once enjoyed position as a staple of American cookery.  Water, as you know, was not always potable and raw milk, small beers, cider, perry and other fermented beverages were [...]

A Recipe for Spring: Strawberry Mint Sorbet

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Strawberry mint sorbet is one of those desserts – those simple treats – that I love sharing with my family.  It’s fresh and vibrant with flavor, but also utterly uncomplicated.  Celebrating some of the best flavors of spring – strawberries and fresh herbs – this strawberry mint sorbet provides the perfect combination of bright flavors [...]

A Recipe for Winter: Apple & Spice Dutch Baby Pancake

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Dutch baby pancakes, puffy and golden brown, are my go-to dish for wholesome and nourishing breakfasts.  At night, when I’ve tucked my son into his cotton quilts and woolen blankets, I ask him what he wants to eat for the next morning’s breakfast.  So many dishes, properly prepared, need time  – soaked oatmeal porridge, baked [...]

A Benign Indulgence: Rustic Mayan Chocolate Truffles

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Mayan chocolate, bitter and sexy, with its resonant flavors of cinnamon and chili always reminds me not of Mexico, but of Amsterdam.  It was in that cold and wet city that my husband and I tied the knot to the bells of the Oude Kerk six years ago.  We’re not much for fanfare, we two.  [...]

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