This fall has been a hectic one but included the very fun task of making food for my friend who just had a first baby. Nursing moms (as well as pregnant ladies) are so fun to cook for because they eat a lions share, seem to especially enjoy eating, and really put that food to [...]
Challenges make a thing use its greatest capacity to complete a task or, even, to fulfill its purpose. Lacking a challenge, the thing might change its function or go away entirely, leading me to suspect that challenge is crucial to purpose.
Humans’ inclination to displace life’s challenges off of the body and onto a tool has [...]
A simple, but untimely, google search revealed that in fact my sauerkraut did NOT fail because of the mold.
There are a lot of discussions about this out there about this.
Apparently when Alice Waters said to skim off scum she also meant mold? I think being specific about something so out of the ordinary in cooking [...]
Well- It’s a lesson in unsuccessful experimentation both with a homemade treat and fermentation. On this first try, I have failed at my attempt to make sauerkraut.
My first check up on my jar of not so briny cabbage (prepared using the Farmer John’s recipe) found a sweet and salty sort of dry mixture that tasted [...]
I am growing to really love cabbage. Getting into winter greens has been pretty satisfying this season, using the gauge of what is available at the farmer’s markets to know if something is really ready to be eaten. But frankly, the flavor of cabbage is much sweeter and succulent than I had once thought.
Sauerkraut:
Two of [...]
