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10/03/2026

Saturday's rainy vibe has been kombucha.
I started these second ferments:
🫧 Rosemary Grapefruit from black tea kombucha
🫧 Carrot Blood Orange with turmeric from hibiscus kombucha
🫧 Blueberry Pear from Butterfly Pea Flower Kombucha
And then a spur of the moment addition of
🫧 Cherry Lime from black tea kombucha
We will see how they turn out in a few days.🫧🍾

Productive end to the week and an excellent start to a new one! 👩‍🍳✨My kitchen homesteading station has been in full swi...
09/27/2026

Productive end to the week and an excellent start to a new one! 👩‍🍳✨

My kitchen homesteading station has been in full swing over the last few days, and the results are incredibly rewarding:

🥛 4 lbs of raw cottage cheese — made a few days ago, and it is easily one of the most delicious batches yet!
🧈 1 lb of cultured raw butter — churned today from two quarts of cultured heavy cream.
🍦 1/2 pint of crème fraîche — scooped out at the perfect pre-butter stage.
🥛 1 quart of buttermilk — the ultra-creamy byproduct of today's butter churning.
🥣 2 quarts of Super Gut yogurt — a custom blend of L. gasseri and L. reuteri that is almost finished culturing.
🍹 Kombucha station — officially up, running, and ready for action!

There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of fermenting and crafting your own food from scratch. Cheers to a nourishing week ahead!

FromScratch Kombucha CulturedButter

06/27/2026

Every now and then rest is needed with someone who truly understands how it's done correctly.

06/24/2026

It was relaxing to come home this afternoon and start some kombucha and use the pineapple 'discards' to make tepache! Tasty, good for you refreshing flavors.

06/14/2026

When I juiced carrots for the Carrot Orange Turmeric Kombucha, what I didn't use for the Carrot Cake Fusion Ferment I froze. Today, I make Oatmeal Carrot Cake Cookies with the carrot shreds, oatmeal, einkorn flour, maple syrup,and fragrance spices. I dipped them in Lily's Stevia white chocolate once they cooled. They are so good!

06/14/2026

The first time I heard about l. reuteri, I was eager to try it since my microbiome was a wreck after surgery. I have been hooked since! Combined with l. gasseri, it provides an additional leverage in healing. I learned a lot about these two cultures from Donna Schwenk Cultured Foods and purchase my starter cultures from there.

06/14/2026

I am having so much fun fermenting all these tasty foods! This is another recipe from Guru. I have been enjoying her recipes straight up but also modifying to fit my own tastes.

06/14/2026

This is an exceptionally happy culture! The flavor is spot on yummy! Even better is knowing that milk kefir is a symbiotic blend of up to 30 to 60 distinct species of good bacteria and yeasts, delivering billions of live colony-forming units per cup to my gut's microbiome making it one of the most powerful gut healing foods!

06/13/2026

This will be ready for next week's enjoyment! Along with: carrot cake fusion ferment, fermented cranberry orange spread, cauliflower turmeric with peppercorns ferment, and a couple varieties of lactofermented pickles!

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