Category: Blogs

Fermentation in the News 8-7-14

Fermentation in the news! I’m toying with the idea of making weekly posts on different fermentation stories making it into the news whether it’s a newspaper writing a story on something relating to fermentation, a new recipe I might find interesting, or even health related involving fermentation. You’ll have to tell me what you guys think …

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A Few Great Fermentation Videos

I wanted to give you guys some great videos to watch while I’m preparing my next podcast on Permaculture and what it has to do with Fermentation. Fermentation is such a broad topic and just by visiting my Pinterest page you’ll notice the large umbrella that fermentation covers. From sauerkraut to pickles to homebrew beer …

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Pickled Okra Recipe

Today I go over how to pickle okra with a good recipe that I think flavors it well. Okra, that long, crunchy, fresh vegetable that ends up being so slimy in the end. I had never really liked okra because of the slime issue and I still find it slightly creepy, but it grows so …

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Watermelon Soda Recipe

Summer in Florida for me means it’s time for watermelons, and recently that’s started to turn into making watermelon soda!  I had never tasted homemade watermelon soda before but the pictures of it always enticed me.  That beautiful slightly red glow to it with that little bit of carbonation just seemed too much for me …

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What to do with Pickle Juice and Uses for Leftover Brine

What can you do with leftover pickle juice or any of the fermented brines that we’ve all come to have in abundance when you get into fermenting? I mean you don’t just pour it out do you?  Do you?!? This is something I quickly began to think about as soon as I had multiple jars …

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Homemade Dill Pickle Recipe

Dill pickles! Most of us love them and we all know what a store bought pickle tastes like, but how about learning how to make real, old-fashioned, homemade dill pickles using simply a salt brine? It’s not as hard as you might think and takes such a short amount of actual “work time” that I think …

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