𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠

Yum! Hot from the oven sourdough with the best, tastiest, yellowest butter I’ve had in my life — from Miller Branch Farm in Bluff City, TN

#baking #breadstr #sourdough #ferment #butter #grownostr

#lunchchain snack

Best yogurt I’ve had in my life, from Goshen Homestead Creamery. They don’t ship and all pickups are pretty far from where I live, so when I was passing through I scored two big tubs and will culture them for my own homemade yogurt.

Topped with a drizzle of delicious Dillwyn Wildflower honey from Bee Happy Farms, sumac, and fresh strawberries.

Served with organic Guanyin oolong in my birthday present, a lovely mug by potter Morgan Bolyard.

http://goshenhomestead.com/

https://beehappyfarmsofvirginia.com/

Morgan Bolyard on Instagram: @tavernworthyceramics

#snackchain #teachain #ferment #yogurt #honey #knowyourfarmer #va #tn #pottery #ceramics #clay #glaze #mug #art #grownostr

I made makarona bil laban for the first time! I love it 😍

I used my homemade strained yogurt and since I don’t like ground meat, I used a lamb leg.

#lunchchain #cooking #foodstr #yogurt #ferment #grownostr

I really miss jujube yogurt; a bottle of that was one of my favorite breakfasts in China. It was commonly available there but strangely enough, even with so many Asian stores (and specifically Chinese stores) near me, I haven’t found any for sale here.

I had some dried jujube slices and ever since buying them, I’ve been thinking about grinding them up and adding them to my homemade yogurt to see how close I get to the real thing.

It turned out quite brown instead of pink, so I added some goji berries for color and now it looks like vodka sauce 😅 forgot they’re more tomato red than berry red…

the flavor is close but I think next time I’d better sift the ground fruits so there aren’t little grainy bits.

#ferment #yogurt #红枣 #酸奶 #cooking #grownostr

I had some homemade labneh I hadn’t eaten for a while and decided to roll balls of it in za’atar and steep them in olive oil! I bet this is gonna be good…

#cooking #ferment #yogurt #labneh #grownostr

#asknostr #ferment #cheese #cheesestr

Homemade butter chicken on cumin bone broth rice with chai and mango-passionfruit lassi with homemade yogurt at the studio.

100% worth the ginger juice I got in my eye making this the other day😅

#cooking #foodstr #lunchchain #teachain #ferment #yogurt #grownostr

Burrito with homemade sour cream! Yum

#lunchchain #ferment #cooking #grownostr

Finally got around to fermenting strips of turmeric, carrot, ginger, and parsnip! I am so excited about this…

#ferment #cooking #grownostr

Elk leg tteokbokki with shiitakes, oyster mushrooms, and home-pickled hot peppers.

This marinade makes the elk taste amazing! I rinsed out sriracha bottles with rice vinegar, and added homemade ginger liqueur, toasted sesame oil, Sichuan peppercorns, and a little orange zest. You can really taste orange and Sichuan peppercorn in each bite of meat😚 👌

All fried up in sausage grease, tossed with gochujang and miso, and enjoyed with nigori sake and dragon well green tea with ginger peels.

Feeling thankful again today for my father in law’s hunter friend for the meat 😊 He is Chinese and frequently cooks his game in Chinese style, so I’m excited to tell him about my marinade; I wonder if my technique to get “每口肉有花椒味” is really an innovation or something he already knows 😁

#lunchchain #dinnerchain #elk #venison #huntstr #cooking #teachain #ferment #花椒 #做饭 #鹿肉 #狩猎 #grownostr

Pan-toasted ham sandwich on homemade egg sourdough, a big bowl of homemade butternut squash soup, and triple strength Darjeeling black tea. Perfectly delicious 💖

#soup #breadstr #sourdough #ferment #baking #teachain #lunchchain #cooking #grownostr

This idea is snowballing into a mix of ginger, turmeric, carrot, and parsnip strips

Getting very inspired

#ferment #cooking #grownostr

Being able to eat delicious homemade food off of gorgeous handmade pottery at the studio makes up for the windowless kitchenette space and its plastic table 😂

My sourdough “tortillas” were a lot more pita-like, so I tried them out for souvlaki wraps with my tzatziki made with homemade labneh. They were almost as good as my sourdough pitas, and were a bit bigger!

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I put my pickled peppers on burritos!

Half Polyface beef, half chorizo

Sour cream with live cultures

Homemade sourdough tortillas (sadly not big enough nor thin enough; they’d be better as pitas)

#cooking #ferment #pickling #sourdough #lunchchain #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/efefd09909d70b7f7607835c862955553f0a51eb9f4cf205eea8c428d8b838fb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5b7154907ee21479fad0a4632622c3d55977fca82b0656ec520b3492b53a3026.jpg https://image.nostr.build/85cdcdcc63422bc6d664e0d07fdfa2b3ffd1b33e09e3da9808ee79ea3ec43113.jpg

Omg y’all 🤌

These pickled peppers are 🔥 Both because they are hot and because they are very good

This opens up so many possibilities… I’m gonna pickle so many things…

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Today’s delicious lunch:

This is one version of what I call “cheesy chicken” but Paul wants to call it “chickeny cheese”

Chicken tenders seasoned with tarragon, garlic powder, onion powder, and pepper, covered in cream cheese and baked under a blanket of Swiss cheese.

I served it with steamed baby broccoli and a dish of pasta with leek greens, garlic, cream, cream cheese, and whey. 😚 👌 Don’t let anyone tell you you can only eat the white part of a leek; this is a super sauce I sometimes add mushrooms to. It’s also good made with buttermilk, but I used my whey from both yogurt and cheesemaking.

#lunchchain #cooking #grownostr #ferment #yogurt #cheese #whey https://image.nostr.build/6632e02c023363edbf4960d8b07160900cef5e60835a0c8753a91952923a648b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ea0f85d3fdebf51362cd33dfefe43eef732dc4d533fe768243007dc9b0a16716.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fcea06bcdb01c5bfc07ed9b6714ac4564a714fdbf97c3c64fddc83abca02b1bd.jpg

I’ve put hot peppers in the sauerkraut many times, but this is my first time fermenting hot peppers without cabbage! It’s also my first time fermenting with garlic. Hope this works, it smells amazing…

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Here’s the second white chocolate dessert I’ve made over the past couple days:

Molten white chocolate and toasted marshmallows mixed with labneh.

I think next time I have ideas on how to make it smoother and better. But man, does this ever taste amazing. Definitely something worth perfecting.

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For Valentine’s Day lunch we had a wonderful Thai feast from Neisha Thai.

I can definitely recommend their food, especially the moo dadd deaw, but the white chocolate mousse dessert was not it. I love white chocolate, but I’m a little picky about it.

So I took the white chocolate I had at home and made one of my favorite desserts that uses it instead.

Mix a bit of light honey with labneh or Greek yogurt, put fruit on top (I usually use raspberry, but strawberries and lychees were very delicious today), and finely grate a large amount of white chocolate over all.

Of course I used my homemade labneh 😁 this latest batch was very smooth and good.

Awesome dessert 😊

#lunchchain #restaurant #ferment #yogurt #labneh #dessertchain #cooking #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/e0fbd2191b83d53640b60687fa9b37511f269bc6920d81fbea0b249b935fc938.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a1c57b66acd6ff7c80746f7c1f32524e0e17c4eecba47282a629bb02096e9eaf.jpg

Has anyone cultured sour cream before? I’ve had such success with yogurt and found a sour cream with live cultures. Besides using cream instead of milk, it any different than making yogurt, e.g., in temperature heating the cream?

#asknostr #ferment #yogurt #sourcream #crema #cooking #grownostr

Is apple cider vinegar really any more healthful than other kinds of vinegar with the mother?

#asknostr #nutrition #health #acv #ferment #vinegar #grownostr

I love doing yogurt experiments, but they don’t always have dramatic results. This time, I could tell: the Maple Hill culture tasted more buttery, the skyr culture tasted more bland, and the small jar with both cultures in it was significantly more sour. I’m guessing that it must be because there was more culture:milk due to the size of the jar.

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My first homemade cheese getting fried in sausage grease!

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Soup 2 of 2: incredibly delicious poblano chicken soup, topped with wild boar chorizo!

This is from my friend’s recipe, which has been a favorite of mine for years; it’s my first time making it myself. She uses green enchilada sauce but I approximated my own with jalapeños, canned green tomatoes, garlic, onion, apple cider vinegar, whey, and spices.

Enjoyed with homemade bacon sourdough toast also made with whey, and a nice strong cup of Darjeeling tea.

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And here it is with the picture 😅

#breakfastchain #ferment #yogurt #labneh #gratefulchain https://image.nostr.build/a1a04137311fe4570d404eb112d85fa7c2fad177b97383f75c4cc3453de1aafd.jpg

My Lebanese friend went back for Christmas and let me pick up and use his raw milk subscription while he was gone. I used it to make a whole bunch of labneh, among other stuff!

When he got back, he brought me some carob molasses from his hometown. It’s delicious and earthy. I put it on strawberries and labneh and it was quite good.

Grateful for good friends and food 😊

#breakfastchain #ferment #yogurt #labneh #gratefulchain

Here’s how you can use your microwave to make cheese

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Soup 1 of 2: very spicy, very tasty pepper soup.

Fresh out of the oven to go with it: plain and bacon sourdough with a few experiments going on.

For the first time I used whey (from straining homemade yogurt) instead of water. I used a sifted whole grain bread flour in the preferment but only white AP flour in the second flour addition, hoping to get whole grain benefits while giving time to soften and ferment it so it wouldn’t harm gluten development. I used four eggs instead of three.

I like the result! The bacon loaf is especially beautiful.

This special whole grain bread flour was from Brian Severson farms. Apparently they’ll customize flour; I might want to get some extra sifted bread flour to try.

https://qualityorganic.net/

#cooking #dinnerchain #soupstr #baking #ferment #sourdough #breadstr #yogurt #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/94e69d0415d6a5456381b028d2b338b2d752cf6ae16e30b4863663c7b6001ece.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0d0db7b8f8e54d200cabe82a5ab9f839bfcce079bbc08d1d176c9bbfb251c1ae.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1d6d25163cb323775f652f0de1f4834023a565d752da7131632a5ada01f1f9a9.jpg

Yogurt experiment with inconclusive results!

My friend gifted me some raw milk and I turned a lot of it into yogurt using my usual scant amount of parent yogurt, twice my normal amount, and three times the amount.

At first I thought the 3x amount was a bit more sour, but I’m not really sure. They pretty much all taste alike.

The cream top is a fun feature that has happened every time I’ve used raw or creamline milk to make yogurt. Is it technically cream cheese? I’m not sure!

The yogurt is already nice and thick, but I’m straining it because I like it extra thick and I like using whey in stuff. I’m also going to try to make at least some of it into labneh and give it to the friend who gave me the milk as a thank you (he is Lebanese).

#ferment #rawmilk #cooking #yogurt #labneh #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/e7970effa0de8db32b0dc31fc635e5f51e5e444135d370d5cd93c9f56e9936c9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ee2d02dbcd41eefc066746413b716b31d210285dedf23991ea12558d2004ca75.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e075370aa3d6d57f0fe3d0bb243a2c71d9f2cf10ceb12aef9de4b4791f3bd4a8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0050211660f52df332843041527585d791fa32c72f9b09e249183592a5ddd8ab.jpg https://image.nostr.build/10645144795629df92ad06dc143cd08e085960ec629f768b9296958c15c3b02c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4b864825a68b2ef7e820870ea9345cbda6a2c2b438892c79b8484d99472a3ced.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1df36466847ceb5d32d10c78fb5d3aecd5c9481703c3bc7725188fc4918a4c43.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2ac93a600d8939c82cc4de8a6d1259a1b318a8b9106f0659699414041021f4f1.jpg

Missed the Christmas Day photo of the purple kraut because we rushed out of the house in the morning to join the family celebration. Here is the final purple kraut color log, day 6!

Quite thoroughly pink!

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Purple kraut color log day 4 Pink!

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Purple kraut color log day 3 The overflow liquid is definitely more pink than purple now! The kraut itself is getting there.

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Purple kraut color log day 2 Maybe it’s something about the lighting, but it looks less pink to me today 🤔

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Made this very overflowy kraut last night and I plan to refrigerate it Christmas night. Between now and then, I think I want to photographically track its change from purple to pink! Day 1:

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The fruits of my attempt to make rice wine: some super thick but pretty tasty rice wine and the Chinese dish I made with it!

I used the following recipe with a few tweaks:

Replaced all rice wine called for with my homemade supa thicc unfiltered rice wine

Used a pound of boneless skinless chicken thighs

The jujubes I used were not the normal kind that are whole and simply dried, but dehydrated slices

Added a few shiitakes with the ginger

Instead of frying ginger in sesame oil, fried it in the grease from ginger scallion sausages and added the sesame oil at the end instead (I find heat destroys the flavor)

Considering my homemade wine was unsalted, the recipe still called for much too little salt.

https://dailycookingquest.com/chicken-in-chinese-rice-wine.html

I had this planned for over a week, but coincidentally woke up with a cold today, so perfect timing for a cozy, gingery meal!

Captivated by how pretty and wintry the ingredients look together before cooking 😍 looks pretty good after cooking, too. I love how the chicken is so tender you can pull it apart with chopsticks 🤤

Now I know angelica root has an amazing smell… I was curious how this dish was going to work with no alliums in it, but it works. I think the angelica root is kind of like truffle in the way that it has a slightly allium-like richness without really being the same flavor. If you don’t eat garlic or onion, this might be a fish or ingredient to try.

I’m probably making this again sometime and maybe try cooking other Chinese dishes.

#ricewine #ferment #cooking #lunchchain 米酒 #酒 #做饭 #饭 https://image.nostr.build/613a698ce95a91147535ad422df0699633780d8a5a1b6b57a27d328cc65c74b0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2f5a51f61df9f46c2e10d5345ea16efa1538961248ff753487767f7f288d0c2f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/22e35b145ec43331276ff4ab0ff956e2013752670e5b504ccf4a80cf49bda2b8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/683a52a8add98634b701fa7a296f4cff75a7615235349993b094586f5754e832.jpg https://image.nostr.build/dc8f9187c9ad58614e4dc4bc07896ca4c7a0bb2c7136e0fb6c61a986c968a6e3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2bf2229acc38f3641f73990d8fd9576e70b3f3dbb8a116e3df8977135a958f8c.jpg

Fermenting today: Grinch kraut ❤️💚❤️💚 with green cabbage, cumin seed, and red hot peppers

Too much juice to fit in the jar; a lovely peach color and probably has a little kick to it. Any ideas what to do with it? Actual sauerkraut juice I’d have tons of ideas, but this is just spicy cabbage juice…

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Gourmet sausages with homemade ✨spooky kraut✨ and roasted butternut squash! Darjeeling tea

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Fermenting now: ✨Halloween sauerkraut✨ with a mix of purple and green cabbage, and a mix of Hatch chili and jalapeño along with whole cumin seed

The one on the left has no inoculant, while the one on the right has a little juice from a previous batch that descended from a storebought brand.

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Egg with homemade charred pepper hot sauce Homemade sourdough: 1/2 slice cumin seed, 1/2 slice bacon pepper jack Bacon Avocado Fresno peppers stuffed with baba ghanoush Organic Darjeeling tea

This time w picture 😉

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Egg with homemade charred pepper hot sauce Homemade sourdough: 1/2 slice cumin seed, 1/2 slice bacon pepper jack Bacon Avocado Fresno peppers stuffed with baba ghanoush Organic Darjeeling tea

#breakfastchain #teachain #sourdough #ferment #baking #foodstr

Turned out just fine 😁 can’t wait to dig in tomorrow with some chili

One bacon pepperjack loaf, one cumin seed loaf So many good smells!

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Last night during

I made my first attempt at hot honey!

It will probably ferment some, so I gave it lots of headspace to bubble up.

IIRC, thanks to

for telling me rough proportions by weight of honey:other stuff.

This is a pound of unheated, unsprayed Virginia dandelion honey combined with ~2.5 oz mixed garlic and shallots (I cut garlic ends off after weighing and replaced a guess at that mass with 1/8 tsp organic cumin seeds), 0.05 oz mixed mint and thyme from my friend’s garden, and 2.45 oz mixed organic shishito and serrano peppers (as non-green as I could find).

Smells amazing 🤤

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#ricewine update!

The one packed-full jar nearly overflowed again! So I took another sample.

It’s still undrinkably sweet, but slightly less so. The funky flavor is almost completely gone! It’s definitely tasting interesting. Fruity and nutty.

Very excited to see where this goes.

Still no clue what the other jar tastes like. It’s plateaued at about 4/5 full of liquid and I’m wondering if I should try to smush the rice down in it. Or transfer rice from the overproductive jar to the underproductive jar and see if things balance out. Winemakers and other fermenters, please feel free to advise!

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My rice wine was about to overflow, so I pipetted some off and had a sample!

It is INCREDIBLY SWEET 🥵 too sweet to drink. It also has a funky flavor I wish it didn’t have. But it also has a nice fruity flavor. It reminds me of some of my less favorite makgeolli (I like makgeolli but some is better than others… unfortunately the tastier ones have artificial sweeteners I don’t want to drink anymore 😅.)

Wine makers: I imagine it will become drier the longer I let it ferment, yes? Will a longer ferment also make funky flavors go away?

#asknostr #wine #ricewine #ferment #酒 #酒酿 #酒曲 https://image.nostr.build/1a596b88e041429ef936a4ec3ca05acff9ee9b0a5ef6f29a99ec51052f0474bf.jpg

It’s working !!! ❤️‍🔥

I am making rice wine!!! 🍶

This is my first homemade alcohol 😁

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Anyone ever made jiuniang and rice wine from a yeast ball / jiuqu?

This is my second attempt. You haven’t heard about the first attempt because it was very disappointing 😂

This time I’m using glutinous rice instead of normal rice. Recipes vary on how much dry rice to cook per ball, so I’m kinda between two recipes. It feels like one ball is so little for this much rice.

🤞 hoping for the best… any tips are appreciated

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#foodie #dnd night:

We ate quiche made with backyard eggs and whose crust was made with butter and bacon fat; tomatoes with stracciatella, basil, and balsamic glaze; and an assortment of my sourdough breads.

Then we fought a band of Harengon while trapped on a causeway and most of us almost died 😅 good times!

#food #cooking #chickens #breadstr #baking #sourdough #ferment #ttrpg #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/af6a333841a7e0e4eb7fb5ed6aabc24b36a176c87dbe6bcc25bd8e1f5fb2ed9e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5efb6eb2254b7d46925d2b34c4b4940c67d8cd9c69271c6f7cde8d73a86d635e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0eb0a8acf0b0387a751be1eaba268a2679e9a366d187c473e62d486fc5901ea2.jpg

Today’s late #lunchchain

Chicken pitas, everything homemade from scratch

Chicken’s marinade homemade from scratch Tzatziki homemade from scratch (cucumbers grown by in-laws’ neighbor’s boyfriend) Yogurt in the tzatziki homemade from scratch and strained Sourdough pitas homemade from scratch (this time 1/4 the flour is whole wheat) Cast iron grilled bell peppers homemade from scratch (green one grown by in-laws’ neighbor’s boyfriend)

So tasty 🤤

#cooking #Greek #sourdough #yogurt #ferment #food #foodstr #foodie #proofofwork #pow #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/68413dd0153588e765594f9a39040b7cd25efe772ce9fdd8c9aee14ebf64f44e.jpg

Random laundry tips today!

1. I thought I’d ruined the amazing baby outfit my mother in law SEWED BY HERSELF 😮 because I unthinkingly washed it with a new hand-dyed shirt I had bought. But after soaking it in an oxiclean solution 6+ hours and laundering it with some color catcher sheets, the white areas are no longer pink 😁

2. It can be a challenge to proof bread in a timely fashion when the house is cold (in winter because winter, or in summer because of beautiful, delicious AC). But I figured out that if you close it up in the laundry closet on top of the dryer while / just after drying laundry, it’s nice and warm…

#laundry #cleaning #baking #bread #sourdough #ferment #til #lifehacks #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/f4acf754ee61fcd25b0778b11536b62da8aa1e5a850c03b2aa7e44ec7e2fcc36.jpg https://image.nostr.build/36c41cc8d89a25f1adf73652c116082984e414c2b8723619c62d8f9d42437f0c.jpg

Dairy Queen test on my strained homemade yogurt 👑

This time I used a kitchen towel. It didn’t break, but it wasn’t very efficient, and I kept having to squeeze it. Maybe someday I’ll use real cheesecloth… Glad to have whey again, I kinda missed it!

I turned some of the strained yogurt into tzatziki and put it on my homemade pita bread with some Greek-spiced chicken, shishito peppers, and a little leftover spicy hummus for lunch 🤌❤️‍🔥

Most of this cucumber-onion-garlic-vinegar mix will become cucumber salad Monday, when I get some fresh mint and cook ribs for the first time!

#food #cooking #baking #sourdough #yogurt #ferment #lunchchain #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/571923c6763230580103cacdd94e2eab0da52815fa15c0b0dda23f18f95c4617.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8f323e1f9ba540018fd972bfd0a06f5e925f001d489d929bea88260052f1079e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/778793a642964c2bf3be70b7daddd21b2fb04e8c74a4974c11c2975f7f6fd12a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e37005d096ac5111389e85575f1c32fa522fa8485370799fcdcb4a596118c693.jpg

Sauerkraut experiments!

Both: cumin seeds (new addition) and jalapeños

Large jar: inoculated with Wildbrine brand sauerkraut juice (what we eat when we don’t have homemade kraut around)

Small jar: no inoculant

I’m interested to see if there will be a noticeable difference in flavor. There certainly was in my recent yogurt experiment using two different cultures.

Got a “fermentation wall” here with my sourdough crock next to them 😁

#sauerkraut #ferment #cooking #grownostr #myhandsarespicy https://image.nostr.build/526740119ae3f9f2cb2883803d9c60860469d6435adc4f9f063a92e566775f72.jpg

A bowl of the yogurt I made in a cooler with some strawberries, yellow kiwis, and blueberries! 🌈

Cooler yogurt verdict: not bad! But the other yogurt I cultured from Goshen Homestead Creamery’s yogurt is better (cooler yogurt was ultimately derived from a storebought yogurt).

Goshen makes the absolute best yogurt I’ve had in my life, but sadly, I can’t get it in my area… so I took a sample when it was being served at an event and grew my own 💪 It tastes almost as perfect and delicious as the original, and I only used an instant pot instead of fancy equipment, so I’m calling it a win.

Botany pop quiz: do you know which two of these fruits in my bowl are related?

https://goshenhomestead.com/creamery/

#breakfastchain #ferment #yogurt #botany #ericales #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/6a10ae3e25cdcd4496b3b2c4e7e4ef7c14c556bf9caa845fab1566b1f7303695.jpg

Well, I found out the hard way my instant pot will only hold two tall jars and one short jar of yogurt, not two of each…

So necessity being the mother of desperate internet research, I found out you can make yogurt in a cooler!

It appears to have worked. Went into a cooler full of water 120+ ish degrees, which eight hours later had cooled to a balmy 98.

It thickened up all right. Will find out what it tastes like soon, probably tomorrow.

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Just one of three trays of fresh baked sourdough pepperoni rolls 🤤

#baking #wv #smellstr #sourdough #ferment #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/035dd39cebba801dbdb2cdf307020cc4af13b13e5fd1da1296bbe22db19cafab.jpg

Sausages from McLean Organic Butcher: merguez, wild boar, Swiss chard, and the best bratwurst I’ve had in my life! Served with homemade jalapeño red sauerkraut and a roasted sweet potato from Joyous Gardens with sour cream

#lunchchain #ferment #knowyourfarmer #eatmeat #sausages #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/22708813203aab00539f66d07242b1c4354585ff2e6da0011a67cff6f9c0964c.jpg

Here’s a dish I’ve been meaning to make for a really long time… it exceeded expectations 😁

Carrot miso pasta sauce with chickpeas, peppers, and chicken, very loosely inspired by of this recipe:

https://www.feastingathome.com/orecchiette-with-creamy-carrot-sauce/

Mine is roasted carrots, a few cloves of garlic, miso, and equal parts water and lemon juice blended smooth and simmered with cream, and my topping was lemon zest, garlic, homemade sourdough breadcrumbs, and a little parsley and celery leaves fried in butter.

So unique and delicious 😁 enjoyed it with my triple strength Darjeeling tea

#dinnerchain #ferment #miso #sourdough #pasta #teachain #cooking #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/0f2a28dc0b4f5f87f3c0a8ba8c2f65a46caf72db3777b6c3f37d6d940f8997f0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ad0b47072024cfcbb9c1dfca5d07ca5712474a307bcb1564f8faec3a1c75b0c7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ac39f930fab1d48a7bd5147d482c253fffeb882b90793a1f91895524a6799784.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4f1caa08d22ee3836141c66a1d18c57c5aacf27ee396add3de4826bbcbe4367d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9f216e72c98f652f6ac8744bfff95cd0756137e014158216242ff7b507623a9e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c2fde4802527d90e222ab00e623b5d0ce9b47eb83cd0febf70305f3917687fa4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/befb1cf540a1cf95f1a5ba8eb84dbdb964dbebb189b7393a6d0864e0f984f433.jpg

I experimented with doing yogurt in a new way and it came out extremely liquidy, so I’m straining it

I don’t have cheesecloth, but the coffee filter and pourover cone are working very well… 🤔

What are your favorite uses for whey? I’ll use it to water my porch plants if I don’t hear of anything more appealing. Sadly, I have no animals to feed it to.

#ferment #yogurt #whey #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/249811e4d6eb35aba90a06999e891612dccb497adb6dbe420858b42facb2d072.jpg

Omg this #sourdough 🤌

It’s perfection

Sandwich with sharp cheddar, Lebanon bologna, sauerkraut, and mustard

Wish people at my church didn’t have egg allergies 😭 I am the communion baker there and the bread would be better this way

#baking #breadstr #ferment #yumstr #lunchchain #foodstr #foodie #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/bd2346c1353d014852cd8bdfad490490b37d6cbd469802c1a6b0448704a5725e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3a57cf80377a7e779ce30bd550b166dede5412b6f0cf97c8700bf9a03110702b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/19958d9419350e357fcefed43ac84c30baed775b696d4f28654bb8fab61165be.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f98255e8d9bf72909a291139e4eee6f3ad848ceca1ac80229b617eddb64c3669.jpg

has been doing a hardcore keto plan where he has nearly the same carefully-crafted meals every day. I’ve missed sharing what I cook with him, so it was very nice to share some bacon-wrapped green bean bundles today! He also had a piece of golden zucchini and thought it was pretty good. I think it’s an exceptionally flavorful one; even before cooking when I cut it, it was so rich-smelling, almost like a winter squash. I’m also having harissa, rotisserie dark meat, and that rosemary date sourdough I told y’all I was going to eat with some cultured butter.

Green beans and exceptional yellow zucchini from Joyous Gardens Scottsville via the Polyface Farm Store Bacon from Polyface, too Amos Miller cultured butter

#lunchchain #teachain #sourdough #ferment #baking #cooking #foodie #foodstr #knowyourfarmer #grownostr https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d348681f49c2047d313736cff5f814b24ba25884bac948b34d202c2f27d2b483.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/6ba60827d7493e13cd3768b1a0fa29de31192fc0a33a17dee9fb3d75e51d3455.jpg