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While visiting my friends, Peter and Evelyn, last week I found some jewel toned mason jars sitting on their kitchen counter. Obviously, these green, red and pale red quarts, shimmering with liquid goodness, and covered with cheese cloth, were creating an amazing food treat through lacto-fermentation. I had to know more. Peter was making hot [...]
Whether you are hunting or raising your own meat, sometimes you don’t want to preserve it in the freezer. One alternative is to make jerky. Jerky is basically spiced, marinated and dried fresh meat. Jerky is raw meat or fish, that’s full of healthy natural enzymes and protein. You don’t cook the meat before you [...]
Traditional food preservation methods included lacto-fermentation. Cheese is a lacto-fermented food, as is yogourt. Vegetables can also be lacto-fermented. Fermentation preserves vegetables by converting water, starches, sugars and proteins, with micro-organisms, preventing spoilage and increasing the nutritive properties. Traditionally lacto-fermented vegetables have several health benefits: Increase nutrition Increase digestion and absorption of nutrients Weight loss [...]
This is a series on Food Preservation — taking summer’s bounty and preserving it for winter’s scarcity. Dehydrating fruits and vegetables is one of several methods of food preservation that should be in your arsenal to allow you to enjoy the benefits of fresh, vitamin rich, chemical free food year round and at the lowest [...]
Virgin Coconut Oil, Gold Label - 1 quart
