2014 archive

Episode 18 – Jane Campbell of Fermenters Kitchen

Today I have the pleasure of having Jane Campbell on the show who is the founder of Fermenters Kitchen. It’s amazing to talk to someone who when you ask the question, “What would you like to ferment next that you haven’t tried?” actually gets stumped because there’s not much she hasn’t tried. In this episode, …

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Episode 17 – Melanie Hoffman of Pickle Me Too

I talked to Melanie Hoffman of the blog Pickle Me Too and what a great conversation we had on several different topics from how what you eat and drink can affect your gut health and how diets like the GAPS diet can actually help with things like autism. We go into many other things like …

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Episode 16 – How to Make Kombucha Tea & the SCOBY

Today I talk all about how to make kombucha tea, what kombucha tea is, and about what to do with a kombucha SCOBY and even how to make one yourself! If you’ve never tried kombucha, you’re missing out on an interesting flavor that will hit you by surprise with the first sip that you take. …

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Spicy Fermented Carrot Sticks Recipe

Can you ferment carrots? Of course you can! I’ve seen several recipes for fermented carrots and finally decided to try it. I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect when these would be finished but I can tell you it’s worth trying if you like pickles. I like spicy and I also like dill so I …

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Thanksgiving Ferments in Progress

After putting together the Thanksgiving show last week, I figured I’d take a picture of a few of the things I have going that I’ll be serving up for Thanksgiving. Of course I always have a to have some dill pickles on hand since they taste so good, but along with the normal pickles, I …

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Episode 15 – Thanksgiving Ideas & Recipes with Fermentation

It’s time to give thanks and that means Thanksgiving is close! I decided to put together an episode to give you some ideas on how to add fermentation, fermented foods, and fermented drinks into your Thanksgiving dinner. You might not think it, but Thanksgiving is actually a great time of the year for fermentation to …

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Episode 14 – Making Kefir & the Kefirko Kickstarter with Marko, Andrej, & Niko

For today’s show, I have on the Kefirko team made up of Marko Borko, Andrej Glažar, and Niko Klanšek who created the Kefirko and currently has a Kickstarter running to get their product out into the market. The Kefirko helps making milk kefir and water kefir much easier without so much mess. Yes, you can …

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Kefirko Questions for Friday’s Show

I’m interviewing the creators of the Kefirko tomorrow morning on The Fermentation Podcast. I have some questions I was going to ask, but do you have any questions you’d want me to ask them for you so you can hear it from them on Friday’s show? The Kefirko is the container / strainer that helps …

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Resources, Sandor Katz Interviews Audio & Video

I thought I might start putting together some resources that I think will help people in getting started in fermentation. The more people out there fermenting, the more great recipes and know-how we can get into the general public again! I’ll start putting somewhat of a knowledge base of how-to’s and some links to helpful …

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What to do with Jalapenos and Using Fermentation

What should I do with this beautiful bowl of jalapenos? Should I make pickled peppers? Hot sauce? Or should I try my new idea of making pickle salt but instead, make a spicy pickled pepper salt? I recently published my Fermented Jalapeno Hot Sauce Recipe and explained how to do it in Episode 12 – How to Make …

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