June 21, 2022
What’s up with the I’m Awesome stickers that I hand out at the farmers’ markets? Number 1: whether or not you get a sticker and whether […]
January 20, 2022
Folks often mistake my beautiful bottles of brine—or the liquid extract that forms as vegetables ferment—for kombucha. That’s okay. Kombucha is almost as delicious and has […]
February 23, 2021
Organic. Conventional. Local. Regional. National. International? Yes. Wait… What? “Yes?” Yes?!? You use ingredients sourced from all of those places? You don’t only use locally grown, […]
February 16, 2021
Ugh. Plastic. If I could do away with it entirely, I’d be so happy. If I could get Korean red pepper powder and the pounds of […]
December 24, 2020
Batch/Blooper #1 taught me about temperature control/moderation. Batch #2 headed in the right direction with a kombucha mother from my kombucha soul mate and life-long friend, […]
December 24, 2020
I love kombucha. Its tart fizziness feels wonderful in my mouth and on my tongue. The microbes send signals of health and happiness to my cells. […]
December 22, 2020
People often ask me how we can use 2 gallons of yogurt before it goes bad, since there are only four of us in our family. […]
December 16, 2020
For almost a year, I made plain yogurt before I tried flavoring it. I resisted flavoring yogurt because it seems that we all have too much […]
December 10, 2020
Today I made a quart of yogurt using the slimy batch (see yogurt bloopers) from 11/22/09 as the starter. I was surprised by the results. The […]
October 22, 2020
My friend Liza has been making yogurt for a long time, and the day that she showed me her method, she also lent me her copy […]