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Fermentation Update–Filmjölk

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Fermentation, Food
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...so on. Now, as a thoroughly industrialized people, it does go against the grain to leave dairy products just sitting around at room temperature. But power to the people, it works! The next day we had a jar full of kind of chunky, yogurty stuff, which was not rancid, but really quiet tasty. We shook it up to remove the lumps before drinking it. We must confess that only one of us partook of that first glass, since our other Homegrown Revolution co...

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When You Can’t Stop Bringing Up Fungi in Casual Conversations

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Gardening, Mushrooms
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...Psylocybe Fanaticus, that makes use of sterilized mason jars to inoculate grain. McPherson’s method, which he calls PF Tek, allows you to propagate fungi in your kitchen without a lot of expensive lab equipment. You do need a pressure canner which I’m lobbying the administration here at Root Simple to let me order. Odds are there’s a mycological society near you. While it’s interesting to grow mushrooms and forage for edible species it’s also jus...

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Instant Soup Stock=Happy Flavor Bomb

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Food
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...e making. It goes in the rice water, in the couscous water–into any cooked grain situation. It gets stirred into beans to finish them. It starts off all soups and stews. It can be soup in itself–just add some to some hot water and toss in whatever you’ve got in the fridge to make a quick soup. Basically, if the recipe is savory and calls for water at some point, the water gets supercharged with flavor. The best thing is that one batch of this will...

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Don’t Worry About the Boule: Bake Bread in a Loaf Pan

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Bread, Fermentation, Food
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...pper-panicked, hastily re-started my starter and fired up the Mockmill 100 grain mill. Baking with a sourdough starter puts you on a collision course with the unpredictability at the heart of the “natural” i.e. non-internet world. For me the unintended randomness of my loaves came down to the discovery that I was using too course a grind with the mill. Thereafter, my loaves improved. Even after that simple fix, I still get can get distracted by ch...

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