If you are ever faced with an excess of kefir (which happens all the time to me) make kefir cheese! If your kefir grains are anything like mine it just keeps churning out the kefir whether or not we’re drinking it, and happily multiplying themselves in the process. Kefir cheese is similar to cream cheese … Read more
Growing your own food is fun, but the really special part comes when you sit down to the dinner table and the main course is something you grew yourself. Potatoes are a great crop for small spaces, because they can be grown in containers. They are also super easy to cook with. There are so … Read more
I was so excited when I learned I could make my own homemade apple cider vinegar from bits of apple waste we produce every day in the kitchen. While my apple cores and peels never get thrown away (the chickens eat them out of the compost bin), this gives me one more use for them. … Read more
Milking a goat seemed very mysterious and difficult the first time I set out to try. And what was I supposed to do with the milk after!?! Plus it seemed like there were so many different ways to do things. Milking machine or hand milking? Raw or pasteurized? What did I need to have on … Read more
Did you know that you can make your own sour cream? It’s actually SUPER EASY! All it takes is cream, and something to culture it with. You can make sour cream using raw vinegar with the mother, milk kefir, yogurt, or even buttermilk! You can also make it using a starter culture from Cultures for Health … Read more