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Kimchi Recipe. If I had to name my favorite cuisine, it would be a toss-up between Vietnamese and Korean.

Kimchi Recipe

Both offer charbroiled meats, pickled or marinated vegetables, and a lively and sometimes spicy array of seasonings. What’s not to like? Most unfamiliar ethnic foods become instantly accessible if you take a trip to a local shop to stock up on a few specific ingredients. It wasn’t until I learned about Moroccan spices that I realized that a tagine is basically a braise seasoned with specific spices mixed in the right combination, such as turmeric, paprika, saffron and ground ginger. Mexican food isn’t all that difficult if one familiarizes themselves with chilies, cilantro, and corn tortillas. Ok, and a nice hunk of pork shoulder as well. Every time I go to a specialty market, whether it’s Mexican, Japanese, or Chinese, I invariably lug back bottles of vinegars, odd herbs, specialty sugars and some sort of backside-burning chili pastes home with me.

But I couldn’t find any. Zip. banchan (Wikipedia) Cultures for Health: Yogurt Starter, Sourdough Starter, Kombucha, Kefir Grains, Cheese Making and more. Natural Ginger Ale Recipe - Homemade Fermented Probiotic Drink. Vegan Dairy-Free Yogurt Starter. DIY Dairy-Free Coconut Yogurt. How To Make Natural Ginger Ale. How To Make Natural Ginger Ale It turns out that soda hasn’t always been the high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavor concoction in an aluminum can that we know today.

How To Make Natural Ginger Ale

For hundreds of years (and probably much longer) cultures around the world have made various forms of naturally fermented “sodas” from sweetened herbal teas or fruit juice mixes. These natural fermented drinks contained beneficial enzymes and probiotics to boost health and were a far cry from the unhealthy versions we have today. This version uses a fermented ginger culture to create a naturally fizzy soda! Ginger is and delicious herb that has been used in many cultures for its health-boosting Ingredients -A 1-2 inch piece of fresh ginger root, minced.

For Full Recipe and Instructions Click Here: How To Make Natural Ginger Ale What else do you use ginger for? 1. “Ginger is a natural immune booster and is considered to be a “hot spice”-meaning that, when ingested, it quickly has a warming effect on the human body. 2. 3. Sauerkraut crocks! Australia! How to Make Rhubarb Wine.

Rhubarb Wine is tasty and easy to make – here’s how we turn our Rhubarb into Wine.

How to Make Rhubarb Wine

Right now is the ideal time (mid June) to pick your Rhubarb stalks. When you pick them, you can either twist the stalk (close to the ground) to snap it off or cut it using a paring knife. Be sure to leave several of the smaller stalks on the plant. This way, your Rhubarb plant will continue to grow. We have 5 Rhubarb plants. Ready to make wine? Weigh the stalks - you will need 5 lbs for every 1 gallon of wine. This year we ended up with 37 pounds of Rhubarb off those 5 plants! Clean out a primary fermenter and snap all the stalks many times. You don’t need to cleanly break each stalk into pieces, just a quick snap so the rhubarb is exposed.

Snap the stalks into the primary and pour cold water over to cover them. Hold the Rhubarb above the liquid for a minute to let most of the excess liquid drip back into the primary. According to the recipe, I had to add 3 lbs of sugar for every 1 gallon of liquid.