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Garlic Fermented in Honey
This simple technique provides preserved garlic plus a delicious garlic-infused fermented honey, which you want in your salad dressings, marinating ...
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Fermented Garlic Paste
Once this ingredient enters your kitchen, you will never be able to live without it again. I use the paste ...
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Smoky Fermented Hot Sauce
Scrambled eggs, takeout pizza, fried rice, mac and cheese, roasted veg … are all improved with hot sauce. I don’t ...
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Black Garlic
You are either the kind of person that is willing to keep a slow cooker plugged in for weeks at ...
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Kosho
This past weekend’s Virtual Ferment Fest was an absolutely fabulous, heart-lifting, globe-spanning microbial love fest. For the festival, I did ...
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Sauerkraut
I have two early childhood sense memories of kraut. The first is the bigos -- a hearty Polish stew filled ...
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Hazelnut Garlic Pesto
A lovely pesto to stir into a pot of pasta, schmear on toast, or toss with roasted veggies. Hazelnut Garlic ...
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Sourdough Buckwheat Galette
My very first experience with producing food for other people to buy was making galettes in rural France. I was ...
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Kimchi Fried Rice
Kimchi fried rice, or Kimchi-bokkeumbap, is a popular korean dish, beloved in its home country and by hipsters the world ...
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All-Kraut Latkes
I happen to be working my way through several gallons of kraut in an attempt to free up cooler space ...
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Greek Frittata
A frittata is a chameleon meal. It works as breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Easy enough to whip up in a ...
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Rustic Zucchini and Apple Crostata
This was a fridge cleanout creation. I needed to use up a few random bits before heading off on a ...
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Spiced Eggnog
As a child I carpooled to school with a very unusual girl named Danielle. A quarter century later, Danielle remains ...
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Fruit Shrub
Shrubs are a great old-timey way to beat the heat. This vinegar-based drink is puckery and refreshing, and a cool ...
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Sourdough Flax Crackers
These crackers are based on a recipe I absolutely love from the Bar Tartine cookbook. They were our sometimes too ...
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Whole Grain Mustard
Homemade mustard is infinitely more delicious than store bought. The end. Whole Grain Mustard Homemade mustard is infinitely more delicious ...
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Cultured Butter
Butter -- called “coagulated sunlight” by the poet Seamus Heaney -- is one life’s great luxuries. By fermenting cream before ...
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Sourdough Pizza
I'm mighty proud of this pizza dough. If your sourdough starter is bubbly and happy, get ready for some pizza ...
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Maple Pecan Sweet Potato Pie
Last Thursday we made pie crust. Today we’re filling it. Next Thursday we shall feast! I have been working on ...
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Whole Wheat Pie Crust
Being able to make a pie from scratch should be a requirement for graduating from high school (Why did they ...
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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Bars
This Reese's Peanut Butter Cup-inspired recipe represents my aesthetic well. It was inspired by my favorite menu item in the ...
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Jesseka’s Peach Cobbler
Jesseka Rivera is the dessert queen of my heart. She worked in the kitchen at Ground Floor Farm, and now ...
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Chocolate Pistachio Oat Breakfast Cookies
These cookies are inspired by Heidi Swanson’s thinnest oatmeal cookies, which are an extremely classy treat. They remind me of ...
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Peanut Butter Olive Oil Brownies
A sweet treat for you, dear readers. Here is a brownie recipe that would honor any middle school bake sale ...
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