I love the smell of lilacs blooming in the springtime! The beautiful edible blossoms don’t last long, so I like to try to preserve that flavor to enjoy throughout the year. This lilac mead recipe is a delicious way to do that! Simple Mead Making Ebook If you want to learn more about making mead,…
Ferment
Fermenting is a traditional way of preserving foods that creates a delicious and gut healthy end product. Making lacto-fermented veggies (like fermented asparagus) is a great way to use up excess veggies from your garden. Fermented honey garlic can help keep you healthy!
I’m also big on making fermented drinks such as kombucha, water kefir, and natural sodas. And of course there’s mead (honey wine) and other homebrews, like apple ginger beer, that bring us happiness and joy!
How to Make Sauerkraut: Traditionally Fermented Cabbage
Traditionally made from cabbage and a saltwater brine, sauerkraut is fermented for several weeks. Homemade sauerkraut is amazing and doesn’t resemble store bought at all, plus it’s easy and cheap to make and filled with probiotics. Let’s make homemade fermented sauerkraut! What is Sauerkraut? I don’t know about you, but I hated sauerkraut when I…
Fermented Honey Cranberries
These honey fermented cranberries are a healthy, colorful, and delicious fermented recipe that is perfect for your Thanksgiving or holiday dinner. Fermented honey cranberries are made from nourishing real food ingredients, and are a wonderful recipe for gut health. Fermenting Cranberries in Honey It’s amazing to me how easy fermenting in honey is! I’ve done…
Mulled Hard Cider: Warm Spiced Apple Drink for Fall
Simmered with mulling spices and citrus, this mulled hard cider is a delicious way to celebrate fall! It’s the perfect warm spiced drink for the holiday season, plus it’s so easy to make. Cheers! Warm Spiced Hard Cider for Fall Well, the holidays are upon us, so who wants a drink? Seriously though, there’s really…
Fermented Honey Garlic
This fermented honey garlic is the perfect thing to make to boost your immune system! Both honey and garlic have strong medicinal benefits, so you’ll want to have this delicious home remedy on hand for cold and flu season. Fermenting Garlic in Honey I’m really excited to share this post with you! Fermented honey garlic…
How to Bottle One Gallon of Hard Cider (or Mead)
Once you’ve brewed and fermented a one gallon batch of hard cider, mead, or other homebrew, it’s time to bottle it! This is my simple method for how to bottle hard cider or mead. How to Bottle Hard Cider or Mead Before bottling hard cider, you need to brew up a batch! This same method…
How to Make Hard Cider: Homebrew it!
Learn how to brew your own easy and delicious hard cider with this simple recipe! Brewing your own hard cider is easy, affordable, and it tastes amazing. Homemade Hard Cider This, right here, will change your world. No, not in the “this is the best hard cider I’ve ever had, I should sell this stuff…
15+ Ways to Preserve Zucchini: Freeze, Can, Ferment, and Dehydrate
Some summers are zucchini summers, and we are in the midst of one right now! Preserving zucchini to last through the winter is actually easy to do. There are four main methods for how to preserve zucchini: freezing, canning, fermenting, and dehydrating or drying. How to Preserve Zucchini Zucchini can sometimes grow a little bit…
How to Make a Gallon of Mead: A Simple Mead Recipe
You may have heard of mead before or maybe you haven’t, but one image that always seems to come to mind when mead is mentioned is Vikings drinking their grog. I don’t know a whole lot about Vikings, but I do know a bit about mead! Mead is a fermented honey and water mixture, some…
Fermented Jalapeño Hot Sauce
{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} Fermenting is one of the best ways to naturally preserve foods, and is a great way to use up a bumper crop of veggies from your garden. If you’ve never had fermented jalapeño hot sauce before, you’re in for a treat! It is a little spicy without…
