To your health! My first ginger soda (I’m going to call it soda as of now because otherwise my European readers think I am brewing alcoholic beverages) lost its fizz at some point. Probably when it was in the carboy, before I bottled it. It’s still mighty good to drink but I want to make …
Category Archives: food (growing, cooking, preserving)
Ginger Bug Recipe CORRECTION
I bottled the ginger beer. It is still sitting out, and I am waiting for bubbles to reappear before I stick it in the fridge. As I was forwarding the link to the recipe, I noticed that in my haste to share this with you, I made a mistake: I added 1 cup of sugar, …
Bug to Beer. And Growing Ginger and Turmeric
Bubbles! The Ginger Bug is bubbling so I’m moving on to the next stage of brewing a good beer: adding the culture to the base (water, more ginger and sugar/honey) and letting it ferment away some more. I’m making a little less than a gallon, about 6 wine bottles, I should say. DH made some …
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Woah Sweet Potatoes!
Just realized I need to start the sweet potato sprouts if we want to grow any this season. It begins…
Ginger Bug and Ginger Beer
Yesterday I had great fun at the NOFA Mass. Winter Conference. (I took my red scarf off, I’m sorry, I wasn’t thinking.) One of the things I learned, from Sarah Shields of Birch Moon Farm & Herbals, was how to use fermentation from airborne yeasts to carbonate drinks. I just started my first ginger bug, …
Neem for Aphids and Whiteflies
This is what the view out of the window looks like at the moment. Glorious! DH and I spent three hours digging out our driveway on Wednesday (1 1/2 feet of heavy snow over about 2000 sq.f) and it had been a long time since I had been that exhausted. As I trudged back up …
Last Summer Harvests
Today’s harvest of pepper, from the pepper plants I brought indoors. The bell pepper is from a plant I started from seed in March 2009. We finished the last tomatoes that were still ripening after I pulled them green, in November. of all the tomatoes in that picture, 99% ripened and was eaten. The cherry …
We’re Back
New Delhi street view Well, we made it there and back again, but we’re not in good shape. The trip is 32 hours door to door, in 3 airplanes, through 4 airports and too many security checks. Disturbed sleep or near-total lack of it in my case (very light sleeper and insomniac), irregular eating of …
What’s Growing in the Hoop House: Anti-Stress
Sorry to be so absent. It will get worse. We are traveling to India on the 10th – will be back on New Year’s Day. That is the plan. Thing is, our passports are still at the Indian Consulate without any explanation, or response to our emails, and no one ever answers the phone. If …
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(Mostly) Homegrown Split Pea Soup
I love it! Scarf wound ’round, hat down on over ears, zip up coat, grab the harvest basket and run out. Loot: celery, leeks and pea shoots Rinse, chop, sweep into the pot, add homegrown chopped onions and carrots, as well as split peas (bulk, dry) that have been soaking overnight, water, pepper and salt …