Menu du jour fermenting : 15 Recipes


  • Recipe A Fermenting Story - JT's 85 x 3
    A Fermenting Story - JT's 85 x 3
    John Tredgold (JT) is a member of Bread Bakers Guild Team USA 2010 (Baguette and Specialty Breads section).   He shared his 85 x 3 formula from the Breads Draft Class at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco back in[...]
  • Recipe A combined effort
    A combined effort
    Saturday night we still had some Pizza dough left over from the previous nights festivities. As in last week's attempt, the dough with the higher proportion of whole wheat did not rise in time for the main event- Luckily, to not disappoint my[...]
  • Recipe Kimchi: a follow up
    Kimchi: a follow up
    When I did  research on the brined Korean staple, sources suggested that the first written mention of Kimchi was in the Chinese poetry tome  Sigyeong  1000 BC. Sadly though I could not find any English translations. Instead I[...]
  • Recipe Lacto-Fermented Asparagus
    Lacto-Fermented Asparagus
    I went a little crazy with the asparagus this Spring.  Each trip to the Farmer's Market yielded at least one bundle of beautiful spears...be it long, thin and green...or thick and purple...or ghostly white...I was really feeling the asparagus[...]
  • Recipe Chain-Letter Cinnamon Bread
    Chain-Letter Cinnamon Bread
    The bread that keeps on giving About six weeks ago, we were gifted a so-called “Amish Cinnamon Bread” yeast starter in a zip-top bag that came along with a somewhat cryptic-sounding recipe. Due to my affinity for baking, I decided[...]
  • Recipe Chain-Letter Cinnamon Bread
    Chain-Letter Cinnamon Bread
    The bread that keeps on giving About six weeks ago, we were gifted a so-called “Amish Cinnamon Bread” yeast starter in a zip-top bag that came along with a somewhat cryptic-sounding recipe. Due to my affinity for baking, I decided[...]
  • Recipe Pickle Whack-o and The new farmer
    Pickle Whack-o and The new farmer
    There is a new farmer and a new farm culture.  The primary difference between the old farmer and the new is a path, the path into farming.  I am heaping massive generalizations all over the internet right now, pretending to be an[...]
  • Recipe Fermenting Vegetables
    Fermenting Vegetables
    Last weekend, I did a fermentation demo as part of the Urban Homesteaders' League Market Stand at the Union Square farmers' market in Somervile, MA. (Photos.) The Market Stand is a great project that brings together skill-sharing presenters with[...]
  • Recipe Fermenting And Pickling Resource List
    Fermenting And Pickling Resource List
    I've put together a short list of fermentation-related resources. It will never be complete?I will always be updating it?so come back and visit now and then! If you have resources that you think I should include on my list, please comment, and I'll[...]
  • Recipe Fermenting:  Cultured/Fermented Veggies, Water Kefir Grains, Vegan Coconut Kefir, Vegan Almond Milk Kefir, Kefir ?Sodas?, and Homemade Vegan Coconut Milk Yogurt
    Fermenting: Cultured/Fermented Veggies, Water Kefir Grains, Vegan Coconut Kefir, Vegan Almond Milk Kefir, Kefir ?Sodas?, and Homemade Vegan Coconut Milk Yogurt
    Right this minute my kitchen is FULL of bacteria. And I couldn’t be more pleased I’m talking about the “good bacteria”.  Cultured, probiotic-filled fermented foods that are so good for the gut. So, it all started with an[...]