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...
Onion Learnings
Onion Learnings... It's taken years to be able to grow consistently large and abundant onions, from plugs (seedlings) or direct from seed, but I got there! I try to pick veg a season that I really, really research, experiment with and master and this seems to work,...
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...
Why I Wished to Live Off-Grid
Why I Wished to Live Off-Grid... I have been living off-grid now for almost 6yrs, but it was a dream for many, many years before that. Even as a teen I loved the idea of it and by the time I was in my 20's I dreamed of some sort of off-grid (as much as you can) in...
Fig & Cinnamon Chutney Recipe
Fig & Cinnamon Chutney Ingredients 1kg fresh figs, with stems cut off and cut into quarters 700g. brown sugar 50ml. balsamic vinegar 50ml, apple cider vinegar Juice of 2 lemons 1 - 1.5 tsp. cinnamon, ground Directions Place everything in a medium sized...
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