Why Kombucha Gets a Bad Reputation
Why Kombucha Gets a Bad Reputation... I often see people on here making comments about Kombucha being bad for you and I see where they are coming from! Shop bought (especially from supermarkets) Kombucha is pretty terrible. Often, it’s been pasteurised (cooked) so...
Water Bath Canning Learnings
Water Bath Canning Learnings… Canning does not mean, preserving produce in tin cans, it’s actually referring to glass jars instead. There are two main ways to can produce, water bath and pressure can. Water bath canning is for acidic produce only, like tomatoes, jams,...
Pikliz Sauerkraut Recipe
Pikliz Haitian Sauerkraut Ingredients 1 medium white cabbage, finely sliced 2 medium carrots, grated ½ onion (any colour), diced 1 green pepper, finely sliced 1 chilli pepper (or choosing and depending on heat), finely diced Juice & zest of 1 lime or lemon...
Fermented Fruit Chilli Sauce
Probiotic, Fermented Fruit Chilli Sauce This recipe started as a way to us up oranges, as an orange chilli sauce and then as orange season finished i realised it worked just as well with grapefruits, lemons or limes too. Then more recently i tried it with plums...
Beetroot & Caramelised Onion Chutney Recipe
Beetroot & Caramelised Onion Chutney Recipe Ingredients 800g of red or white onions, peeled and sliced 600g beetroot, top and tailed and grated 300g brown sugar 200ml cider vinegar 100ml of balsamic vinegar ½ tsp. ground garlic powder 2 tbsp. olive oil 1...
Sweet Red Pepper Jelly Recipe
Sweet Red Pepper Jelly Recipe Ingredients 3 red, orange, or yellow sweet peppers, deseeded and cut into chunks 1 large green apple or two small, cored and cut into chunks 400g white sugar 250ml apple cider vinegar (or vinegar of your choosing) 1 small red...
Elderberry (Medicinal) Chutney Recipe
Elderberry Chutney Recipe I've made tinctures, honeys and all sorts of other things in to preserve and use elderberries as a medicine, but I prefer my medicine in food form if I can. And here it is... Ingredients 500g elderberries 2 apples, diced 1 onion, diced 50g...
Dehydrated Fermented Foods
Dehydrated Fermented Foods... Did you know you can dehydrate fermented foods? If your sauerkraut, kimchi or fermented carrots have fermented past your liking (ie: gone too sour, soggy or strong). Then you can spread your fermented vegetables on to dehydrating sheets...
Baked Courgette Recipe
Baked Courgette Recipe Every year I like finding new and yummy ways to use up the abundance of courgettes there always is. I have made most cakes and soups you could think of, but for some reason I have never baked them (apart from a stuff marrow kind of thing). ...
Pickled Peppers Recipe
Pickled Peppers is a new favourite of mine, so here’s the recipe in case you also have an abundance of them this year… Ingredients 1 kg bell peppers (deseeded and cut into strips) 1L apple cider vinegar (or a vinegar of your choosing) 8 garlic cloves (peeled...
Garlic Abundance
Garlic Abundance I have learnt with garlic that is needs a lot of love to actually produce something worth the effort of planting it! Planting deep Sunny location Good fertilized soil that drains well Cutting back (the green tops) several times if they grow tops too...
The Benefits of Cabbages
Benefits of Cabbages… As cabbage is the bases for many fermented foods I thought I’d share a little bit about this unlikely powerhouse of health. Here’s some of the benefits of each cabbage (even un-fermented), then if you fermented it you are adding in tons of good...
Mushroom Kimchi Recipe
Mushroom Kimchi Recipe - Is really awesome! Ingredients 1 kg of mushrooms 1 bunch green onions or 1 small white or red onion, sliced thinly 150ml of kombucha, kimchi or kraut juice from a previous batch 3 cloves, minced or 1.5 tsp. of ground garlic 3cm of fresh...
The Reality of Living Off-Grid
The Reality of Off-Grid Living... Finding it weird when there are 'normal' toilets to use. Finding yourself more often than you'd think crawling about in animal muck one way or another. Having your day hijacked by some animal disaster/ escapee / random animal turning...