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With too many berries, and not enough ways to preserve them, I started my journey into ferments with this rumtopf. And now with a few things under my belt, I am excited to pull this Christmas treat out and start enjoying it. Its a fairly simple recipe combining equal parts fruit and sugar in rum,…
Over the holidays, I always end up with a few half or quarter bottles of wine that I have no plans to drink, so rather than pushing them into the back of the fridge, I decided to mix them all together into a jar of wine vinegar. Vinegar is an easy ferment, it just takes…
Step by step clips of my 2 months of trying to make this apple cider vinegar, leads to a funny ending, in this Fermentation Friday video. I grew a couple of great mother of vinegars that will be very helpful for the future, but I didn’t ferment the tastiest vinegar. But you can get a…
Are you making more kombucha than you can keep up with drinking? Do what I did, and forget about a batch for a month or two – and tada, you have vinegar. I’m really excited to start making vinegar because I buy a lot of it, for clean and cooking. And the idea of having…
Moldy kombucha is a complaint that I hear about all the time, so I am experimenting to find out ways that can cause issues for your kombucha culture. So I try out 3 different ways to get mold growing, including using a crazy mold culture that I going to say I grew on purpose, lol.…
These pickles smelled too good to just dump into the compost because of a little (okay, a lot) of kham yeast. I should have dealt with these earlier, but life got in the way. So now, for fermentation friday, I try to rinse off the yeast, and hope for a good flavor even after my…
Wondering how to make yogurt? Join Serina for Fermentation Friday, as she shows you her first attempt at making her own yogurt with really simple home tools – which was actually a success! I was a little intimidated by making yogurt because no one wants to mess around with stinky dairy, but this recipe was…
Fermented pickles seem like magic to me, but ideally I would like to be able to preserve pickles over the winter in my cold storage, and I’m not quite there yet. Serina shares how her summer pickles are doing for fermentation Friday. Some have gone moldy, but the sauerkraut is still going strong. With improved…
Welcome to Fermentation Friday! This week I made up a batch of pickled beans. I had some unwanted growth on the top of my brine, and spent most of the week trying to figure out if it was mold or Kahm’s yeast. I’m still not 100% sure, but everything tasted good, so I’m keeping it.…
We are starting a weekly series all about learning how to ferment! Every week we will be researching and trying out a new fermentation recipe, and giving you an update on the progress of our past ferments. Watch me learn from the beginning, or better yet, get in on the fun and ferment along with…
