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Lemons: Three Simple Ways To Preserve The Harvest

Local lemon trees are groaning under the abundance of fruit and everybody knows that I love lemons so my kitchen is overflowing too! I do nothing fancy when preserving, I just want to capture the clean flavour and conserve the nutrients of these beautiful fruit. Freezing the juice and the rind and preserving the whole…

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Kombucha Basics

OK, this stuff really looks like a witches brew! Even so, kombucha is my ferment of choice. I love tea in all it’s incarnations. Kombucha is a fermented tea and really showcases the flavour with a funky edge. You can do a second ferment to introduce new flavours such as fruits and spices however the…

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Golden Milk made with Turmeric Paste

Anti-inflammatory Turmeric Paste: Your Daily Dose of Sunshine!

Golden Milk made with Turmeric Paste Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is one of my all-time favourite spices. Add it to your cooking to give the colour of sunshine and a warm earthy bitterness. Renowned for it’s therapeutic properties turmeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. A daily dose of turmeric is great for general health, especially…

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Easy Intuitive Bone Broth

  Easy Intuitive Bone Broth   I think we all need to loosen up about bone broth! I mention bone broth to my patients in the clinic, and more often than not, I would be on the receiving end of a bit of eye-rolling and the typical response of “I don’t have time for that”!…

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Kale and Pumpkin Frittata with Preserved Lemon

Winter is upon us and the heavy frosts have been hammering my vegetable garden. We have picked most of the vegetables now growing has slowed and there will be little more to pick until the days become longer.  There is one veggie however, that keeps on giving and that is kale. At the moment I…

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Ruby Red Chard Stem Ferment

I love my rainbow chard, it adds a little carnival feel to my veggie garden and it lasts and lasts many pickings. Alas, one day I go to harvest a few more leaves and I notice they are becoming smaller and less prolific as the plant comes to the end of it’s productive life. I…

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Foxglove (Digitalis spp). An old remedy with a narrow therapeutic window, meaning there is little room for error in dosing, a smidge too much and it is poison. NOT used as a home remedy anymore after numerous fatalities. A source of compounds called cardiac glycosides, isolated and used in pharmaceuticals for cardiovascular disease, such as digoxin. Such elegance as they reach for the sky, and an absolute magnet for pollinators.
Herbaceous water kefir second ferment. Heavy on camphorous rosemary, sunny sweetness of orange and subtle blueberries give it a beautiful hue. One day in and super fizzy with all the added wild microbes 🧡⁣. After training the grains from a first ferment of water kefir, flavourful, aromatic herbs, spices and fruits can amp up the taste and the fizz when added for a day or two for a second ferment. Do you second ferment??
🌱 As we move through spring many herbs and plants reach the cusp of maturity. They are most potent and nutrient-rich before the heat of summer sets in and they push their energy into flowering and seeding. ⁣
🔬 Microorganisms make the magic happen when it comes to fermentation. They can be: ⁣
Waste not, want not! 🍏 Old lunch box apples get fermented to Apple cider vinegar. They are super bubbly for the first few days before they are strained off and the liquid rested for at least 3 months, we go longer for extra tang! Me 8 has taken to sealing our ferments with globes so they wave at us 😂😊.
Spring chickens are on the lay. The pullets are producing a party pack of eggs. Have learnt to spot the double yolkers!!!

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