How to Make a Sourdough Starter

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Love sourdough breads?  Wondering how to make your own sourdough starter?  It’s easy.  While the internet is full of sourdough starter recipes that call for odd ingredients like pineapple juice, orange juice, potato flakes or sugar water, to make a truly good sourdough starter you need just three things: flour, water and time.  It’s easy, [...]

How to Make Raw Milk Yogurt

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Raw milk yogurt is a sort of holy grail for traditional foods enthusiasts, coupling the enzymatic and probiotic components of both fresh milk and fermentation in one glorious, creamy, lovely food.  Served over baked oatmeal or soaked oatmeal porridge, on its own or as a basis for savory dipping sauces, a good yogurt can find [...]

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 [...]

Mothers Day Finds for Nourished Mamas

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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 [...]

Giveaway: Cultures for Health

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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 [...]

Herbed Crème Fraîche Dip

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This appetizer is easy to throw together, and you can substitute sour cream for the crème fraîche in a pinch.   Or you can make this dip truly homemade by culturing the crème fraîche yourself.   Serve the dip with vegetable crudités.   The cost per 1/4 cup serving is only $0.49. To make Herbed [...]