Month: September 2011
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Sustainable Foraging Guidelines
Rules are for the obedience of fools & the guidance of wise men* I like to think that my readers are wise people, so I thought I’d write some ‘Guidance’ on foraging sustainably instead of making ‘Rules’. I’m not a rules sort of person. I’ve also phrased them positively as Dos rather than as Don’ts…
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The Sloe Trilogy II: How to make sloe wine, vodka, jam
This is the second part of the Sloe Trilogy where you use the same batch of sloes to make wine, vodka and fridge jam. In the first part I showed you how to make the wine, here are the instructions for the vodka. When you have strained the sloes off the wine ‘must‘ you can…
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The Sloe Trilogy I: How to make sloe wine, vodka, jam
I like making the most of a harvest. Especially when the harvest is as hard won as picking sloes. So I wanted to work out a way of getting multiple products from the same batch of produce. I don’t mean dividing the produce and making three different things, I mean using the product sequentially for…
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Fermenting Revolution 3 – Kimchi
Kimchi Recipe Kimchi is a traditional Korean spicy vegetable pickle. The veg starts off being brined and then it’s rinsed and allowed to ferment in a paste of onion, garlic, ginger and chillies. It’s normally made with shredded chinese style cabbage as the base with other vegetables included. Basically, you can make it with anything,…
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Orange & Cinnamon Swirl Brioche Recipe – Carla’s Treat
The smell of this bread when making, baking and eating is heady. It’s redolent of warm summer evenings in Morocco with spicy orange & sweet cinnamon. You’ll be hard pushed to leave it once it’s out of the oven for the crumb to mature. I think it must be mildly addictive. I came by the…
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Fermenting Revolution 2 – Apple cider vinegar
It’s apple harvesting time. You may be wondering what else you can do with nature’s bounty after the pies, chutneys, jellies and the like. While going through Sandor Katz’s book I mentioned in Fermenting Revolution 1 I saw home made vinegars. And I’ve found that making vinegar really is very simple and the result is…