This Contest has closed! Deborah R has won the giveaway! This weekend, the snow fell hard and heavy. Tucked away in our cave of a home, just a few yards from the ski lifts, I spent my weekend hearth-side – testing and photographing new recipes and making cheese to last for those cold months of [...]
Win a Fermented Vegetable Master & Cultured Food E-book!
At Nourished Kitchen, I write a lot about probiotics, lacto-fermented foods and their value in a nutrient-dense diet. Indeed, the topic seems to weave itself through nearly every post from unconventional ways to fight colds and flus to healthy treats for kids. At home, I strive to include a probiotic, lacto-fermented food or beverage at [...]
swap cultures & starters
Nourished Kitchen offers a free cultures and starters exchange which allows real food lovers to share the probiotic love by swapping their starters and cultures. Kombucha mothers, water kefir grains, yogurt and sourdough starters can be shared from one to another through a free-for-shipping exchange among real food lovers all across the globe. If you’re [...]
Mothers Day Finds for Nourished Mamas
Mothers day is only a week away. So here’s Nourished Kitchen picks for traditional foods-loving and nourished moms. Tired of celebrating mothers day with gooey cards and grocery store carnations? Leave this post casually open on the screen, or, for you less-subtle types: email the link to your partners. Equipment for a [...]
Cultures for Health Winner
Thank all of you who participated in the giveaway by Cultures for Health! The winner was picked by Random.org early this morning, and Jennifer M won a package from Cultures for Health containing not only water kefir grains but also her choice of sourdough and yogurt starters: Matsoni & San Francisco sourdough. However, even if [...]
Last Chance: Cultures for Health Giveaway
Don’t forget: Today’s you last chance to enter the Cultures for Health Giveaway! All you have to do is sign up at Cultures for Health, browse her site and choose you favorite sourdough starter and your favorite yogurt starter, then come back to here and let me know in the comments section. Please [...]
Giveaway: Cultures for Health
In the past few weeks, I’ve enjoyed a little treat: fresh, homemade matsoni courtesy of a new company Cultures for Health. Matsoni is a nice tart yogurt hailing from Georgia and was thought to convey long life. Matsoni is also a room-temperature yogurt that cultures well with minimal effort. For those of you [...]



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