Homemade Goat Milk Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese, crepes, and heirloom tomatoes. A late fall meal couldn’t be more simple or taste much better. I can’t describe what tomatoes and cottage cheese do for my taste buds, but let’s just say...
View ArticleFermented Cranberry-Orange-Apple Relish
Cranberries are in season. If only they were local (for me)! I recently tweaked my mom’s famous cranberry-orange-apple relish recipe to add a fermentation stage. Natural fermentation adds probiotic...
View ArticleFree Video: Lacto-Fermented Guacamole
Want to make your guacamole just that much better for you? Lacto-ferment it! This natural fermentation process allows beneficial organisms to proliferate, and causes an explosion of vitamins and...
View ArticleFree Video: Kefir/Yogurt Cheese Balls
We’re in the midst of a two week lesson on kefir in the Cultured Dairy and Basic Cheese eCourse. I shared troubleshooting and tips, how to make kefir cream, how to make kefir ice cream (yeah —...
View ArticleLacto-Fermented Hummus
Yesterday, I made our family’s traditional hummus — a recipe handed down from my grandmother and namesake, Tata Wardeh, to my mother and then to me. However, there was a difference: this time I...
View ArticleFree Video: Homemade Cultured & Flavored Cream Cheese
Learn to make your own homemade flavored cream cheese, and you’ll never buy another tub again. Sure, the grocery store flavors taste good — but these taste fabulous (and are more healthy). Plus,...
View ArticleFermented Raspberry Preserves
Summer — berries! Oh, we’re loving them. We found a great place to purchase organic berries at conventional prices, either U-pick or convenient flats. (For local readers, the place is The Berry Patch...
View ArticleFREE Video: Easiest Sour Cream EVER
We get around 4 gallons of milk per day from our Jersey cow. For our family, this is plenty to make cheese, butter, kefir, ice cream and more — plus we have some to share with friends AND some to...
View ArticleNikki’s Roma Fresca
Please welcome Nikki from Project: Family Cookbook. I’ve been working on a big project myself, thus the lack of posts here for the past few months — more on that later. So Nikki volunteered this...
View ArticleA Big Batch of Cultured Butter
I’m at my friend Shannon’s Nourishing Days blog today, sharing how I make a big batch of cultured butter. How is this different than my cultured butter in the food processor? For one, it is a bigger...
View ArticleReal Food Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Not my best cake in the picture above (read the story here), but the frosting was to-die-for. You do the real food math: Real butter + real cream + real mineral-rich, tasty unrefined sugar = really...
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