Health, Taste and Tradition
Looking for a delicious, flavourful and chewy gluten free chocolate chip cookie? These fermented cookies use cultured cream cheese with whole grain oat flour for a perfect cookie. Though the recipe calls for chocolate chips (a classic!)
Sometimes a sunny Saturday afternoon needs a sweet, sparkling, probiotic beverage. And if you don’t regularly brew kombucha or water kefir, then ginger bug is the perfect alternative.
Homemade Dijon mustard is a simple recipe involving presoaking mustard seeds, then grinding them up with white wine. The simplicity of this recipe makes it a perfect mustard for anyone keen to try making their own.
Homemade sauerkraut is one of the easiest things to ferment. It is a wonderfully reliable ferment and doesn’t take any special skills or ingredients.
I LOVE noodle bowls. They are a quick, healthy and delicious meal. It’s easy to add some probiotic power with a kimchi noodle bowl. The best part about noodle bowls is that they are put together individually, allowing the most adventurous eaters to share a meal with a more timid eater.
What if you need probiotics but you don’t have time to ferment? I received two emails in the past few months from busy families that really need the health benefits of probiotic foods, but simply don’t have the time to make homemade ferments.
All beer traditionally would have been sour beer. This was dictated by the lack of sterility in the brewing process and the fact that standardized pure yeasts weren’t available.
It’s that time of year again… the time of year when everyone seems to be coughing or blowing their nose. While an occasional cold or flu is an inevitable part of winter, you shouldn’t be chronically sick.
My sister’s been going on about the Buddha bowl for a long time. But for some reason I was never interested in trying it. It made me think of the bland, tasteless food that was passed off a vegetarian fare in the 1980’s. Boy, was I wrong…
Salty-spicy Indian lemon pickles are the perfect condiment for all our Indian meals. They are similar to many other delicious Indian-style pickles, a firm bite and powerful flavour is the hallmark of this type of condiment.
Date caramel sauce is the perfect sugar-free alternative to traditional caramel sauce. Dates provide both the sweetness and the rich caramelly flavour.