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Fruits & Vegetables

Category: Fruits & Vegetables

Woman holding up a swing-top glass bottle filled with foamy apple cider.

Spontaneously Fermented Sparkling Apple Cider

overhead shot of a glass jar of fermented cranberry relish

Can I Use Alternative Sweeteners In Ferments? #AskWardee 143

continuous brew Kombucha and a jar of sauerkraut on a counter top with flip top bottles and a pot wrapped in a towel

How To Keep Ferments Warm #AskWardee 144

Mason jars of canned tomatoes

What’s The Best Food Preservation Method… Canning, Freezing, Dehydrating, or Fermenting? #AskWardee 147

Fermented carrot sticks in a half-gallon glass jar with a metal band and lid. Chopped carrot sticks are on a cutting board next to the jar.

5 Tips: How To Prevent Mold During Fermentation #AskWardee 074

quart sized Mason jar full of sauerkraut secured with a metal band lid, set on top of a gray kitchen towel

Can I Use Reverse Osmosis Water For Fermenting, Culturing, & Sourdough? #AskWardee 138

We've eaten hotel breakfasts in all of our past moves. Those fluffy hotel waffles are so tempting! But when we eat them, my littles complain of belly aches, and I feel frumpy and sluggish. We solved our waffle cravings by making them at home with nourishing ingredients. Fermented berries and yogurt cheese top fluffy, slightly crisp sourdough waffles –- a scrumptious breakfast for any morning!

Sourdough Waffles With Fermented Strawberries & Yogurt Cheese

A chutney is the perfect way to get started with fermenting because it's easy to make and delicious. To help you dive in -- and use up the fruits you're likely bringing in by the boxload or bucketful -- we pulled together this collection of lacto-fermented fruit and chutney recipes. Enjoy!

25 Fermented Fruit & Chutney Recipes

5-Spice Apple Chutney {lacto-fermented} | Kicked up with the Chinese 5-Spice Blend, lacto-fermented apple chutney has been rocking our house lately. I can't keep enough of it on hand for the kids. They love to put a scoop of it in a bowl of kefir. We just went through 1/2 gallon of it in 3 days -- and that was with me telling them not to take so much! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

5-Spice Apple Chutney {lacto-fermented!}

Let's Get Cultured, Shall We? A Cultured Recipe Round-Up

Let’s Get Cultured, Shall We? A Cultured Recipe Round-Up

Overhead shot of turnips, beets, and golden beets in quart- and pint-sized glass jars filled with brine, ready to be fermented.

Lacto-Fermented Turnips & Beets

What to Do with Beets (plus a recipe for fermented beets) | Blessed with an abundance of beets? Here are some great ideas for what to do with them. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

What To Do With Beets (Plus Recipe For Fermented Beets)

Do you want the good flora in your belly to be happy? Yes, probiotics need to eat too! If you feed them, they will grow happier. And your gut ecosystem will be healthier. Prebiotics are food for probiotics! Here are 13 real food prebiotic foods to make your gut (and your entire body) healthier!

13 Prebiotic Foods To Improve Gut Health

cranberry sauce made in the Instant Pot, in a small white bowl on a white background

75+ Fresh Cranberry Recipes… From Breakfast To Dessert!

My family are huge fans of my homemade salsa, bean dip, and pesto -- which are all lacto-fermented. As I put together this round-up of 50 amazingly healthy and colorful fermented salsas, dips, and spreads, my eyes were opened to all the ways I can add even more beneficial bacteria into our foods... and probably without anyone noticing. ;)

50 Fermented Salsas, Dips, and Spreads

37 Ferments for Spring | I dare you. Scroll though these 37 beautiful ferments crafted from spring produce and tell me your mouth doesn't start watering even just a little bit. Beautiful color, a crunch you can practically feel, and I bet your lips are even puckering (with delight). As if that wasn't enough, fermentation causes an explosion of enzymes, beneficial acids, and probiotics -- all good for the gut and the immune system. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

37 Ferments for Spring

How To Make A Pepper Juice Tincture | Pepper juice is the cringe-worthy yet beloved name of my go-to tincture for all things sick-related. As my kids know, it's the answer to everything. Sore throat? Sniffles? Cold and flu season preventative? Pepper juice! Here's how to make a pepper juice tincture! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Pepper Juice: An Immune-Boosting Miracle Tincture

Nikki's Roma Fresca | Looking for a delicious recipe for a fresh tomato salsa? Make this lacto-fermented salsa with vegetables from from the garden or found at the farmers market. Dip in your chips or use it to top steaks, chicken, fish or more. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Nikki’s Roma Fresca