Recipe: Spiced Kombucha Vinaigrette

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Kombucha vinaigrette, may seem like an unusual take on the classic combination of olive oil and balsamic or red wine vinegar, but, when complemented by the unique flavors of clove and allspice it can become a nourishing, if unique dressing for any salad. I find it pairs particularly well with the sweetness of beets, apples, pears and nuts. Reminiscent of apple cider vinegar in combination with club soda, kombucha offers a unique flavor that is growing in popularity as more and more natural foods enthusiasts learn to cherish the beverage – a sweetened tea that undergoes a unique fermentation process through the use of a mother or symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.

Milk Kefir: What It Is & How to Brew It

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Milk kefir is, to put it lightly, an acquired taste.   Sour and pungent, milk kefir is a cultured dairy food originally from the Caucuses – the region where Europe meets Asia.   There it has been traditionally heralded as an elixer of long life and health.   It seems that there’s wisdom in this [...]

Water Kefir: A Quick Tutorial

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Has a lost love of soda pop been nagging at you too long?   We’ve developed a love of water kefir or tibicos in our home.   A fermented beverage teeming with beneficial bacteria, it’s  easily flavored, remarkably simple to prepare and more palatable than kombucha, offering a pleasant alternative to commercial sodas.   Similar [...]

10 Ways to Get More Probiotics (without Dairy)

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We hear it all the time (and I say it plenty!): eat your yogurt for probiotics.   But if you choose not to eat dairy foods or cannot tolerate them, finding dairy-free probiotic foods can pose more of a challenge; however, that doesn’t have to be the case.   Indeed, there are many, many dairy-free [...]

swap cultures & starters

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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 [...]