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 [...]
swap cultures & starters
May 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Giveaway: Cultures for Health
April 2, 2009 By
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 [...]
Fermented Food: Benefits of Lactic Acid Fermentation
March 2, 2009 By 42 Comments
Fermented food, enjoyed across the globe, conveys health benefits through lactic acid fermentation. The fermentation process can transform the flavor of food from the plain and mundane to a mouth-puckering sourness enlivened by colonies of beneficial bacteria and enhanced micronutrients. While fermented food like yogurt, sauerkraut and kefir are well-known many other lesser-known foods also [...]
Meal Plan: 1 December through 7 December
December 1, 2008 By 6 Comments
So this is the plan for our first week of our pantry challenge. The menu is fairly varied, and I’m interested to see how the rest of the month goes! Monday Breakfast: Oats with Raisins, Green Tea Lunch: Leftover Buffalo Pot Roast, Greens Dinner: Butternut Squash Souffle, Mixed Green Salad, Fermented Beets To Do: [...]
Reader Questions: Homemade Cider, Water Kefir Grains
September 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In a new segment I thought I’d answer some reader questions. Indeed, if there’s enough interest, I’ll answer reader questions every Wednesday. If you have a question about food, recipes, traditional foods and nutrition or frugal cooking feel free to contact me. Can homemade cider make people sick? Anything food can harbor potential [...]
Happy Little Kefir Grains
January 19, 2008 By 10 Comments
Aren’t these the happiest little Water Kefir grains you’ve seen? They don’t belong to me–I killed my grains after a prolonged vacation–but they do belong to a member of Mothering.com’s Traditional Foods forum. See how the grains rise and fall with the carbonation? That is good kefir. It’s likely that you’re familiar with kefir–the milk-based [...]
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