hi!! just came back from buenos aires where i managed to get a kombucha mother. the poor creature had to make it through many days of cosed jar to bowl to jar...
Hi all, I just wanted to share my success in fermenting carrot. I recently tried this by using a ratio of 1 tsp salt per cup of water to make a brine and ...
I have a pickle pot going all the time made of rice bran. The pickles you described are called "Nuka Zuke." My nuka zuke is about 3 years old. It makes...
i also make nuka miso zuke pickles! These are quite amazing tasting and very nutritious. I just put some tokyo turnips (tops attached to bottoms) in the pot a...
Hi Brenda, I apologize, if I have missed the instructions for this. It sounds interesting. Could you or someone post how you do the Nuka Zuke pickles? Ellis...
My first batch of nuka zuke has a problem: the vegetables that I pull out are WAY too salty. I used Sandor Katz's salt ratio as well as a composite of 3 others...
I have posted a file in the FILES section to make nukadoko base. I hope this helps as your reference. You can delute salt by adding rosted nuka. also about a...
I would not mind paying $5.00 for your nuka miso zuke turnip 7 sliced on a small dish. Jazz,,,Whiskey and water,,,Turnip nuka miso zuke,,,, Cooool! ... isao...
We served the turnip nuka pickles as part of the appetizer on Saturday evening along with some daikon pickled in salted cherry blossoms, wakame pickled with...
Ok, I've got to know this. Do you mean real cherry blossoms, salted? I
know they sugar a lot of flowers, but never heard of salting them. Even
heard of...
we did it by picking some cherry blossoms from an organic cherry tree and drying them out and then putting them in sea salt. AMAZING aroma and flavor!!! philip...
Wow--what a great idea! I wonder if other flowers can be used the same way.
Probably best with an aromatic flower. Thanks. Samala, Renee ... We did it by...
... * * * * * * * * We have done it with wild violets, lilacs, dandelion buds, dandelion flowers, roses. Often wish I did it with more varieties!!! Make sure...
Some other edible flowers-chamomile, roses (nip off the white tip), hibiscus, lavender, rosemary, nasturtium. Haven't actually tried any of these, but thinking...
... A nice (and, i think, a bit more reliable) site to check the edibility status of flowers is the Plants For A Future database: http://pfaf.org/. Just type...
I recently discovered that the flowers of Arugala are incredibly tasty, and cabbage flowers are nice too. I used them in a salad, but I'm sure they could be...
Some other edible flowers are calendula, snapdragon, carnation, and the flowers of herbs, like onion, chives, basil,etc. Here's a link to a post on my blog...
Moss-ish? I don't want to jump the gun, but I would think it's mold of some sort. All of my SCOBYs are smooth. I know at the beginning, when new baby is...
Hi, Two times i fount that after about two weeks (outside the fridge) my Kimchi starts to get a white film on top. Would this be - as seems most obvious to...
They say live and learn. Well, you are making all sorts of mistakes to learn from. I'm assuming that you are talking about twe weeks outside fridge after the...
... Well, i did it to keep the greens submerged, and thus prevent them from moulding. My idea was the water would be dilute the salt content, but adding more...
Hi Maarten, Yes, adding water dilutes the entire product as well as the acidicity. So, that would be a definite no-no. Adding salt won't help make the dilution...
Hi, just got into this stuff last year, a friend introduced me to lacto-fermentation by having me try some cabbage she had and after that first bite I was...
You can ferment fruit with kefir grains and get a fizzy drink. But it's really difficult to make anything fruit-fermented without it getting alcoholic. 2-day...
Kimchi can keep a fair bit of time outside a "fridge" but, like kraut, it was traditionally kept in a cool place ... usually buried pots in the ground (the...
Hello folks, I am looking for a few kefir grains to start my kefir making. If you know where I can get some, or if you can spare some, I'd much appreciate...
Hi all, I have a natto question. I made natto this past week, I thought all was going to be well because when I took the natto out of incubation, when I...
Hi! i´m looking for kefir grains, which maybe some of you are passionate enough to share. pint is, i live in barcelona, spain. haven´t been able to find much...
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