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What's the best part of making your own soft cheese from raw milk? Raw milk contains probiotics of course! Raw milk left to sit out and get warm means those probiotics are proliferating. This raw milk mascarpone is teeming with living flora. It's an indulgent, tasty health food that you can enjoy in both sweet and savory dishes!

How to Make Raw Milk Mascarpone: Soft, Probiotic Cheese

15 Easy Raw Cheese Recipes | If you make cheese already and appreciate quality recipes... Or, if you want to learn how to make cheese and need a vetted set of recipes to start you off... ...then this post is for you. We did all the hard work of reviewing recipes (and making a bunch of them, too) so you can just dive in and get started. Yummy cheese awaits! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

15 Easy Raw Cheese Recipes

Middle Eastern Kefir Cheese Balls {with free video!} | In today's free video and recipe, I show you a traditional Middle Eastern method of preserving yogurt cheese that requires no refrigeration. My grandmother and namesake, Tata Wardee, who has passed away, always had jars full of yogurt cheese balls available to add to our plates at breakfast, lunch and dinner! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Middle Eastern Kefir Cheese Balls {with free video!}

I would argue that Valentine's Day exists for the food. Beyond the shiny gifts, the whole idea of the day is to connect intimately with one you love. And here is a collection of real food recipes to help set the tone for celebration and romance! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Real Food Recipes for Romance

Cultured cream cheese on a small serving plate.

Cultured Cream Cheese (+5 flavor options!)

decorative blue and white ceramic bowl of carrot sticks

Lacto-Fermented Carrot Sticks (gut-healing probiotic snack for kids!)

A quart mason jar with lid filled with kimchi sitting on a butcher block counter.

Homemade Kimchi: An Easy Korean Sauerkraut Recipe

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

plate full of crispy herbed baby potatoes

30-Minute Smashed Baby Potatoes With Lemon & Tarragon

Is there any way to make tater tots good for you? With these grain-free Garlic-Lime Mini Sweet Potato Puffs, the answer is YES! These make an easy and nourishing appetizer, side dish, or snack, and the chili-yogurt dipping sauce is a delicious way to get extra probiotics into your meal.

Garlic-Lime Mini Sweet Potato Puffs With Chili-Yogurt Dip

a red white and blue dessert, some kind of cheesecake or tart with blueberries and raspberries decorating the top in the shape of a flag

98 Healthy & Easy 4th Of July Recipes (Paleo, Whole30, Keto & more!)

black bean spread on four-grain flatbread with tomato side on white plate

Black Bean Spread

Einkorn Sourdough Chapatis {Indian Flatbread}

Einkorn Sourdough Chapatis {Indian Flatbread}

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

Its finally time to move the cooking outside, play yard games, and enjoy the heat! We've gotcha covered with these nourishing grill and barbecue dishes, drinks, and desserts! Traditional Cooking School

92 Nourishing Grill & Barbecue Dishes, Drinks, & Desserts

Array of beautiful tomatoes, some whole, some sliced, in a variety of different colors: red, yellow, green, and orange.

50+ Tomato Recipes (from breakfast to dinner)