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Book review: Root Cellaring
Root Cellaring The Simple No-Processing Way to Store Fruits and Vegetables By Mike & Nancy Bubel Note: the subtitle of the newer editions is Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables. I got...
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Sauerkraut: new method a success
A couple weeks ago we bought a huge cabbage at the farmer’s market. Usually we keep our ferments covered tightly, opening the jars about twice a day to let out accumulated pressure. Because this was...
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Another sauerkraut method
Oooh, the folks over at Simple Green Frugal Co-op have a really great sauerkraut recipe, and an idea that hadn’t occurred to me before: purposely fermenting your kraut at a lower temperature, for a...
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Kimchi time
I made a completely different version of kimchi this week. Reader Christopher posted a link to this awesome authentic Korean food blog in the comments of my original kimchi recipe that I posted. This...
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Recipe: pickled cucumbers or banana peppers
Here it is, our Nourishing Traditions-inspired pickle recipe (by request from several people). This isn’t a recipe so much as a method — because really it could be varied quite a bit and it would still...
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The New Normal
Various economists are referring to this extremely slow “recovery” as The New Normal. Economy aside, I can’t think of a better phrase to describe our crazy summer of working, volunteering, gardening,...
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August so far
We finished off July with a weekend “up north,” where the kids caught some impressive sunnies right off the dock. They are such good little Minnesotans. Not bad, eh? When we got back from the lake,...
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Recipe: fermented dill pickle relish
“I don’t care if I never eat a dill pickle again,” said Adam, a few weeks ago. It might be overload—I’ve gone crazy with the lacto-fermented dill pickles in the recent past. Also: many of my 2011 jars...
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Book review: The Art of Fermentation
The Art of Fermentation An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World By Sandor Ellix Katz I met Sandor Katz a few years ago, shortly after I purchased his first...
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A banner berry year
Apparently, it’s not just me: 2015 is a banner year for all berries in Minnesota! We’ve had bumper crops of strawberries and currants, and the raspberries are just getting started. We even got a...
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