Who wants to eat the chemical-preservative laden store-bought dip, when you can make this homemade sour cream & onion dip at home...considering how easy it is. Every time I make this dip it gets eaten up the same day...within hours of making it actually. We eat it with anything from homemade potato chips to raw veggies, … [Read more...]
Lacto-fermented “Sweet & Spicy” Pickles
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These pickles are slightly sweet with just a hint of spicy-ness. They taste similar to a bread and butter style pickle, but with the added benefits of lacto-fermentation. The bad thing about these tasty pickles are that they never seem to last in my house... they get eaten up so quickly. I just may have to lock the kids out … [Read more...]
Homemade Yogurt “The Easy Way”
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Yogurt is a super-nutritious food, full of beneficial bacteria (Probiotics). Especially "homemade" yogurt, as most store-bought yogurts contain some sort of additives and/or thickeners-stabilizers. We use yogurt a lot around here for making smoothies, eating plain (or with fruit) for a snack or great breakfast, and in … [Read more...]
Lacto-fermented Dill Pickle Slices *
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We all love pickles here in our family. So much so that I planted multiple pickling cucumber bushes this year, and will definitely be making many jars of these lacto-fermented pickles. Lacto-fermentation is the natural-traditional process of "pickling" foods that creates the good for you bacteria, Probiotics, the ones that … [Read more...]
Grandma’s Creamed Cucumbers (CGW Style)
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My grandmother would make these wonderful "creamed" cucumbers during the hot summer months...and they were always cool and refreshing. Her recipe called for a lot of refined sugar, so I've taken it and updated it in CGW (Cooking God's Way) style. It's still absolutely yummy and refreshing on a hot day, but uses natural … [Read more...]
