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If you’ve never been to see this stunning area of Utah, highly recommend. Dustin Humes/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/770339d1-4441-4796-9a5c-f789b512fbf1/saltimages.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Let's Talk About Salt, Baby - Make it stand out Here’s a lovely little lineup of products Morton sells to the public. Note that Morton makes the overwhelming majority of American salts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/90196ccf-5d68-4250-8537-660f3692d11a/655643_poster_l.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Let's Talk About Salt, Baby - Make it stand out This is how I feel literally every single time I hear or read these claims. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1652784396584-ZKTFT84KHOOX6O06TMB9/unsplash-image-mx94V7uE1eU.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Let's Talk About Salt, Baby - Make it stand out This is a no troll zone. I get enough trolling from the two I already live with! 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Time to start adding flour! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/eec18a47-5b2b-43eb-bf82-a43d9d0d720e/1651769108337.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out I did 2 tablespoons at a time. I needed 6 total. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/5fd9d37b-5e1f-4a15-997b-0cf5d6966a2f/1651858353135.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out You will keep adding a bit of flour at a time, letting the batter rest between additions, until it looks like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/534ce85f-a93f-42ef-bc54-2056ac0b2b2e/1651858417301.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out Dump your batter on a prepared sheet pan. I used a silpat. You use parchment, silpat, or whatever your normal method of preparing pans is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/292551c1-0de7-4935-8c95-a98fb0a9a7da/1651858555625.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out Start spreading it out. I used an offset spatula at first, though later I toggle back and forth between spatula and hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/f67a969d-dcae-4b2b-a70a-b4a3161c3a47/1651858935917.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out Legit, your hands really are the best tool for a LOT of jobs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/758d347b-ea6e-4b20-9d65-df34ca07177c/1651859159243.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out But look how neatly that spatula tightened up the corners. It’s possible at this point that I still have delusions of crackers. I honestly can’t remember because I made so many batches of these that Ross started giving me encouragement to keep going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/b968a87c-5c52-440f-8cf8-e6d4171a583b/1651859344188.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out Kind of looks like delusions were still happening, doesn’t it? I added some salt and holes to the top. I probably won’t do the holes next time, for fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/852a71bb-a6b2-496e-9059-bd7ff19930ef/1651861930870.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out Possible I forgot I was baking again? I think so! You cook these a little less. I believe this was 20-ish minutes. Keep an eye on them after 10 minutes, though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/756e937a-abd0-4aec-b618-76f4861036ec/1651958413338.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Coconut and Thai Curry Flat Breads - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes-fgde9-xkt66-pphtt-eex7g-tl823-bnmc2 monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mesophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-m5bd8-wlbbg-r3d3h-xmcyw-t8hkn monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1722322173837-J30OG7RVOIX422CAGWRR/GettyImages-1289549799.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mesophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/thermophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-f7n7t-9p4ts-d7cjf-8mgl7-8t6em monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/c8852524-cbb9-4154-ae25-6fb3591ca43a/GettyImages-860164138.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Thermophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/shrubs monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/88001e96-05cc-48cf-a2ee-7ca8d0d6dca0/300410221_641830100429201_7833130527061845916_n.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Shrubs: Pre-Modern Gatorade - Make it stand out The pitcher has about half the 20oz of prickly pear fruit shrub I made, so that full batch makes 2 gallons of read-to-drink shrub in accordance with Ross’ preferences. He drank these a lot more diluted when he was new to shrubs. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/more-runny-activation-batches-65t8d-zkhsm-zmggj-aflb7-z6wjm monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603728046427-8HYJWLCBDT7WC8LULM01/4695213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Runny Yogurt Activation Batches https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/invisible-foods-mjlam monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617120618568-5MYRETLYD7VFOLZSXTMD/unsplash-image-WPrTKRw8KRQ.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - The Problem with Ferments Stop for a moment and think about what really is and isn’t okay for you. That’s what this post is all about! Joshua Hoehne/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617112336941-JQGPJDCJ8M7ET6FHVT1E/unsplash-image-gO-iULv-qbU.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - The Problem with Ferments I’m not a doctor, and neither is Sabrina. But even if we were doctors, we aren’t y’all’s doctors. Not being a/your doctor and still offering medical opinions is illegal in the States, so we’re really careful to not break those sorts of laws. And that’s before we even get into the ethics of it that would stop us from offering opinions even if it were legal to do so. Medical decisions, including big dietary changes, really should go through your physician before they come to us. You can still dodge the doc and try us first, but we’re gonna punt you back to your physician in the majority of instances. 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Only think that could make it better is if the kraut were fermented instead of pickled! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583421820004-O5ZSJXVECOPVMBIGI0PQ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This right here is “the start of a beautiful friendship” between you and some half or full sours! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424186439-WI9BSWOTIONZUS355D4G/Brine-Chart-for-Making-Pickles.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This one is nice because it also gives you volumetric. If you’re doing chile pastes or olives, you’ll double the 5% amounts to help prevent mold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424236279-8LN41VOSWQ59BLBDB0T9/brine+chart.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments I like this chart the best, though, because it gives you some guidance on which vegetables go with which brine percentages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424502268-MCK3RJVHMO2QM4RDX94N/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Olives! This is, hands down, my favorite fruit. I eat olives nearly every day, most of which are home cured. My bags of olives tend to come with a lot of leaves, so I save those for my herbalist practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583425116016-F7BYYS8FCUBH5C25CAE7/half+sours.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This is a super simple recipe for half sours https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/khorasan-sourdough-loaf-fsete monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580854699073-2KJQYHSX6ZSFEL0T0S4W/cut+loaf.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Desem Khorasan Wheat Sourdough Boule This loaf didn’t stand a chance against my family https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gluten-free-buttermilk-muffins monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/eb0a6fc8-2ad4-4de8-892f-483f5303ed22/277314750_1151391345686570_5270076951006255020_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free Buttermilk Muffins - Make it stand out This was the blend: 75% brown rice flour, 19% coconut, and 6% sorghum. You can definitely taste the sorghum in here, but not in an off-putting way. I’m giving the details of the blend for those of you who like blending your GF flours. The rest of you will do fine with a Cup4Cup flour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/abcb9c4e-0699-4cc7-9e26-db9be397a865/277417778_353315923504127_5907389254463322077_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free Buttermilk Muffins - Make it stand out We went with orange pomegranate this time, as I love both of these fruits! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/ad817a53-2ca4-49a1-98ca-6fe474c28ea6/277493140_1138777123624430_5131715114828566241_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free Buttermilk Muffins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/caramelized-yogurt-bzn7f monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635332872495-G66LQV32L1FABJN26D8Y/9EyIda97TRmvzZVa0Nyy_IMG_0498.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt - Make it stand out This is darker than CT will eat it, because she really does prefer to maintain some tartness in her yogurts. If you’re one of the people who feels that even the sweetest yogurt is a bit too tart, try a small (like, half a cup) batch cooked down to this. You might really enjoy it! Otherwise? Go lighter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635335844120-0VCDJDPIR46BQQGLKT53/processed_20211026_203729.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt Once it’s dropped down and you can see that the color has begun to shift, go on ahead and remove the film on the top. Or cook it longer, as you prefer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635335870310-27ID8SQC52R4WSNYIJB9/processed_20211026_203858.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt This is the color once I removed the film. You can see it’s still mostly white, but not that more intense white color fresh milk has. Again, this is my kid’s sweet spot, and she’s the primary consumer of yogurt in our home. Well, yogurt as yogurt. I cook and bake all the time with yogurt, but Ross and I don’t tend to eat yogurt as its own food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635615744741-5R8JHUSPLPAF56YQ77HV/processed_20211030_124140.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt - Make it stand out Back when I could still handle the texture of yogurt, I used to add honey drizzle and berries. This looked so good I tried it, but nope. Still not good with yogurt as its own food! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures-75cgh-5k8al-w8a7z-xygbb-ewg7z-fw7p7-738ny monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618340391245-FURG6Y5W9MA7TANLTPL7/processed_20210413_135533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures As you can see, I reorganized this section of the freezer! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/botched-breads-8week-d4awp monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586974158117-W9Q0DQUVGX6A8WI231YU/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997438133-LR3EZSAM71W89E3W2144/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997538271-CBQIOS04GWOX4B09N6NL/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997872038-IQQ3OSVTKEM4S1UPWYIZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/special-edition-ask-allie-home-fermenting-survey-by-researcher-leni-charbonneau monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Special Edition Ask Allie: Home Fermenting Survey by Researcher Leni Charbonneau - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/thicker-yogurt-batches-low-temps-and-small-amounts-of-culture monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1561229478245-U29LU1XYO5EOSFBUU3NL/IMG_6134.PNG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Thicker Yogurt Batches: Low Temps and Small Amounts of Culture - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes-fgde9-xkt66-pphtt-eex7g-tl823-yla67-8x23z monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This globe is in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Child Tester never can get enough of this one! The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your annual temperatures will be. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your annual temperatures will be. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/greek-yogurt-and-date-muffins-5h7rn monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/greek-yogurt-a-story-hfcrd monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1571982791362-7TR5T81W3AKLEDLHZH4V/new+amazon+product+photos+%283%29.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Greek Yogurt: An Origin Story https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fool-proof-yogurt-activation-mead-method-pez4m monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fruit-ferments-d6lze-67z92 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591024593382-HCUUW8BQSXGMLMEGKRJI/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits Markus Spiske/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591024865684-USFF273U4E68R1VW1W1Z/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits Vivek Doshi/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591029217568-UTSZ5PPBWW15E2YBLCKP/processed_20200601_112711.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits These are honey strawberries. I love that plate. My friend Farah sent it to me. I also love that spoon, which Ross whittled for Child Tester. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sesame-seed-and-scallion-sourdough-pancakes-4frts monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1561355171686-345IYBNTU65SM0DVIW9Z/IMG_6164.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sesame Seed And Scallion Sourdough Pancakes - Sesame Seed and Scallion Sourdough Pancakes! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-store-shelf-stable-foods-r2z63 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610034863545-GL5LBWJTGJCF1913ME3R/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Store Shelf-Stable Foods Jason Blackeye/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610035953801-DTHWFLKVP4KNOZ8E0PLO/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Store Shelf-Stable Foods I love rats, so long as they’re caged or in the wild. Not so much when they’re in my home. Phillip Jordan/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610116854174-JJ7EYJZHSBFXR6TMB22W/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Store Shelf-Stable Foods Look at this little cutie! Not so cute when it’s eating your food, though. Ricky Kharawala/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610117290004-HHAPO80462T4B08RT692/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Store Shelf-Stable Foods Please forgive me for the nightmares y’all may have tonight. But you’re welcome for the nightmares you won’t have if you listened to me about pest avoidance. Also sorry for what I’m about to say next. Brett Jordan/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610124435671-IFTY9L7BDU09OM4BHF6K/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Store Shelf-Stable Foods FitNish Media/ Getty https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cultured-butters-a-comparison monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/95ac58cc-d2db-4f07-b09b-1d0acb90a0b7/20220325_114318.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butters: A Comparison - Make it stand out This is the CF butter. All of my cream is coming from Aldi, and their cream is produced by grain-fed cows. You can tell because the butter is white instead of yellow. Grass-fed cows generally produce yellow butter, and grain-fed cows generally produce white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/5c4adde6-dd13-4866-b07b-fae404fdd598/1650577672913.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butters: A Comparison - Make it stand out Ross basically did all of the heavy lifting on this Mexican butter, but which I mean he both washed and worked this butter. I had just cut, but not yet removed from the mold or wrapped it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/4167fa37-2156-40a5-a523-df37819a48ae/1651163122486.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butters: A Comparison - Make it stand out These are the two pounds of Swedish. I hadn’t cut and wrapped them yet. In fact, I’d lost them in the fridge until I realized I didn’t take a picture of these for y’all., at which point they were found in the fridge after searching through both freezers unsuccessfully. They all basically look the same to me, but nevertheless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/c52ad435-441d-4900-983b-03684e39508f/1651430311937.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butters: A Comparison - Make it stand out As you can see, I didn’t even wash the regular sour cream butter before I took the pic. That’s because I knew I was going to forget, due to the ridiculous number of tasks I decided to do at one time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/661391cc-5b9a-4e6d-8455-06ddf6b49cf3/1651620869433.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butters: A Comparison - Make it stand out The mild! I forgot, as you can see, to take a picture before this was ready to go in the freezer, so this picture was the best I could do. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/65z9bhrtjn489jp2rd8a8ksrzt7nht monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/types-of-fermentation-64hh6-zkgzb monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604349893245-N4OQRJFMAPZGIDR1VKMZ/processed_20180610_231319.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This is an old picture, but this loaf of bread was risen by the emptins of a small beer I’d made, which used sourdough starter as its yeast source. Look how tall it is! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604328183458-WYKM6LTBH34Z41BQP5VK/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation Lactic acid fermentation at its most famous - kraut! The Matter of Food/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604341830209-CDBGC6IXWIY06E8HUC9Z/lactic+acid+chart.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This will better explain the process to those of you interested in the science. I was really stressed out over this image, because I lost the source. It took me hours to track it down again so I could remove the dagger from my academic heart!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604342204866-HKPNHR8QV5LHTFCVNOMD/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation We’re obviously moving onto the boozy portion of our little journey now. 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This is insanely embarrassing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604352135272-NPKIOG2VHQQADNU58UY0/Screenshot+2020-11-02+at+3.22.00+PM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This chart is awesome and very informative! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cultured-butter monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/c20c3a5f-550d-480c-9b7b-bfd6b6768550/20220324_114758.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out This is 5 quarts of heavy whipping cream, plus a tiny tub of prepared crème fraîche. I cut the sealed portion of the tops of the quarts off. Why do more dishes than I have to? For the second round, I just opened the tops instead of cutting them off. If you are planning to make the butter inside the cartons instead of pouring it into something else to whip, you will not cut those tops off. I just noticed that they teach you how to make whipped cream on those cartons! Maybe one day, they’ll also tell people how to do butter! But if not, you’ve got this instead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/70f5ea90-3f76-4ee9-9a91-87182e142249/20220324_114957.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Add a spoonful of your culture (or some grains) to each carton. Stir well with a spoon or whisk or whatever you like to use. I used a long spoon that came with my French press. I didn’t measure this, in typical fashion, and I also didn’t care how fully cultured the cartons of cream got. I was really just looking for extra flavor, not precision. In 20 years, people will stop batting an eye at my aversion to measuring because then I’ll be entering the proper age range for “granny style” cooking. If you are going to keep the cream in the container and do the 30 minutes of shaking to turn it into butter, you’re simply going to use a funnel to get your culture into the carton through the plastic pour spout found on these cartons. Then you will close that pour spout and give it a quick shake to combine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/f0abb0e2-dc4b-4398-8f86-2fd4d1941128/20220324_115150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Put those carton somewhere until tomorrow. It’s okay if they aren’t fully cultured tomorrow; doesn’t matter. If you cut those carton tops off, though, you need to put something on top of the cream so dust and other debris don’t find their way into your butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/be1957d8-2ed0-4240-b7eb-63930fa4b0bb/20220325_091328.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out As you can see, this one is cultured completely. Some of my quarts were not. That’s okay! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1e6557c0-7bb7-4076-9b1f-a9406457031d/20220325_091540.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Soured cream is in the bowl! Oh wait, it’s not all in there! Scrape the rest out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/e3687fcd-68c3-4d17-af33-bdc9f503867d/20220325_091611.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out I got the first half then cut it off so I could more easily/cleanly access the bottom half of the tub to scrape it. Those limes were for a chili I was making from leftover brisket Ross smoked. Y’all just go on ahead and ignore that stuff since it’s not relevant to what we’re doing today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/8bc13a18-096a-4b92-bec4-5c6074f09695/20220325_091810.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Not a bad job! I am not hungry enough to really do the work of getting every tiny bit out. I mainly just wanted some butter and the corresponding buttermilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/78cf3fb0-2149-43f5-9bb5-fc2a47cc7970/20220325_091815.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out It’s all in the bowl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/a6919dfa-c777-4c43-b56a-d0308e436f55/20220325_091904.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out I set my stand mixer to “2.” I didn’t really want to deal with cream spitting all over the place. If you’re making your butter in the carton, this is where you start shaking the heck out of your cartons. Roughly 30 minutes per carton, if you’re doing it by hand. I didn’t remember this, but it’s max 10 minutes in the stand mixer. Been a while since I made butter! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/5a17ce36-6fa0-43c0-a27e-b3ccc1c81327/20220325_112152.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out This is whipped cream. Stop here if you want whipped cream. If you want butter, keep going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/d4d1067a-cbe4-4c3c-aed3-51ae30b5c0e7/20220325_112232.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out This is the moment right in between whipped cream and the beginnings of butter. Keep going, because the cream is starting to break! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/034112ed-736c-47c5-9db0-bdaa19fa8849/20220325_105940.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out When it looks like this, your cream is properly breaking. Keep going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/f4b67ce3-c23d-4dcf-8a71-c00788476a22/20220325_110015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Mostly broken. Give it a little longer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/9901ba8f-2e2b-4855-92ba-3bf41ef272b9/20220325_094055.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Didn’t pan out on the no spewing business. That’s because I foolishly decided to go do some gardening while butter was churning. You can see that this resulted in a lot more cleaning for me than should’ve been involved. There was way more buttermilk to clean up on the other side. I lost almost the entire pint of buttermilk. So stay there with your cream and don’t let it decide to wander off! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/c5ca4b1d-1f69-4f08-8b54-a5a52d1b1c61/20220325_095531.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Butter, plus the tiny bit of buttermilk remaining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/2a90f856-660b-4500-be02-d79f3e364dc3/20220325_095706.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Pour the buttermilk out and get ready to wash your butter! Once you’ve drained that buttermilk out, you can actually keep whipping it for a little bit (not for a super long time; thing 30 second Hulu commercial break). More will come out. I always let the cream break, pour buttermilk out, break it more and then pour again, then repeat for a third time. It’s also less work to wash the butter if you extract the buttermilk multiple times and your butter will be closer to European style, which tends to have a lot more fat than American style butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/b537e134-72cf-4dfd-9304-2297d4f8e016/20220325_095804.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Cover, or mostly so, your butter with fresh, cold water. Once you’ve done that, please knead the butter to help extract the remaining buttermilk. I used a spatula for most of these batches, instead of my hands, because I didn’t want to have to work so quickly. You can knead your butter with your hands, but you have to work wicked fast so the heat from your hands doesn’t start melting the butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/592ffec6-c1b5-4a9b-b7a4-ffefd0a59630/20220325_095917.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out 2nd wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/4be39fe7-a90f-4228-ba49-677fb4b29f84/20220325_095917.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out 3rd wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/9abea45f-ab30-4d4f-ba28-cee3cf0f35de/20220325_100053.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out 4th wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/34826246-665e-45b4-adae-b977728148b6/20220325_100208.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out 5th wash. This generally takes 2-5 washes, and ideally you will wash that butter until the water is clear. See that little knob breaking off at the top? Those are very easy to pluck out of the water and insert into your mouth. My pounds are never really full pounds because I do pluck floating knobs and sometimes knobs that look like that want to float. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/96fb3383-8c59-47ef-aa78-b31e7c351c0c/20220325_100342.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Once I poured the 5th water off, it was obvious that the remnants were clear. I stopped washing. Sometimes I stop washing a bit before it’s clear, even though you shouldn’t. You’ll do it the right way, I’m sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/64dd913f-ed24-4afc-9cbc-4aecb7488589/20220325_100601.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out There are a few ways to do this without butter molds and/or a butter paddle. Method #1 I used was to line mini loaf pans with wax paper. I strongly considered molding all 5 pounds into my giant bread pan and then cutting them into the number of pieces I needed, but I already knew these were getting lined and thus not making more dishes for me to wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/22742df5-809d-4683-86b7-a277f8c65858/20220325_100915.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out If you are salting your butter, now’s the time! In general, salted butter should get about 1/8 teaspoon of salt. This is roughly what your salted grocery store butter has in it, and that quantity presumes you are using pickling salt, a super fine sea salt, or regular table salt. If you’re way into salt, bump that up to up to 1/4 teaspoon. I was using a heavily mineralized sea salt and I also like a bit more salt than is typical in butter, so I used a heaping 1/4 teaspoon. My salt, because of all the other minerals its laden with, is not all that salty. Taste your salt before you salt the butter so you understand if you need a bit more because your salt isn’t so salty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/67c6a29a-c369-4bf9-a41a-0cc221b29640/20220325_111034.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out This is an alternate (also my preferred method) way to knead more buttermilk (or water, during the bathing process) out of the butter, and it’s also easier to salt the butter if you spread it out like this. Sometimes I spread it super thin, other times thicker like this. This also helps you keep the butter out of any residual buttermilk or water that’s at the bottom of the bowl because you can just mold the butter to the top of the bowl instead of using two bowls. Every time I write one of these posts that should need a bunch of dishes, I’m shocked by how much thought and effort I put into not having to wash as many. I never notice this habit until I’m writing for y’all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/524e5012-2637-45a1-825e-c46d7de2cbca/20220325_101344.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Storage method #1: pack your butter into the mold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/b912d897-8b2f-425a-bbf6-6bf989f6966c/20220325_101402.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Fold the tops of the wax paper down to cover the top properly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/742f0d42-1158-4ff4-959e-018ee4eefbf6/20220325_101635.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Put them in the fridge to solidify. For batch 1, I split it into roughly half pounds. I did this because I already knew I was giving butter to two people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/4eb6dd2a-1cd7-494e-8ce4-1279fcca6c85/20220325_110309.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Please don’t throw your buttermilk away. Left container is the tiny bit that didn’t go flying out of the stand mixer during the first batch. Right container is the buttermilk from the second batch. If you’re not planning a pancake festival or something else that needs lots of buttermilk, you can freeze it for later. Make sure you leave 2 inches/5cm of head space in your container. I made pancakes the next day, but I also froze some because I wound up with a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/95ac58cc-d2db-4f07-b09b-1d0acb90a0b7/20220325_114318.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Storage method #2: dump your butter on a piece of wax paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1f403e4c-03d4-4058-8d14-86eb7016d7c6/20220325_114406.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Bring the long edges up together and roll them down, shaping the butter into a log of whatever thickness you prefer at the same time. Do this fast, because the heat from your hands isn’t a joke. That butter will start melting if you’re slow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/e9b1254d-b52a-47cc-99b4-96f440743291/20220325_114442.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Twist those edges like you’re makin’ taffy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/62278be5-dd09-423e-99ab-3d26e341f841/20220325_114449.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Ohhhhh look at that beauty! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/05b7cb91-aca6-4b86-aecd-580ab2ba4edc/20220326_121451.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cultured Butter - Make it stand out Storage method #3: pack your butter into butter keepers or other containers you’d normally put jam in to serve at the table. Batch 1 I split into 2 parts, a and b, so I could give these to two families. Batch 2 was just a single mini mold. 3 and 5 were logs, and 4a/4b were put into crocks that can be left at room temperature. 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- Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-i-brew-ales-and-similar monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/5df0d2cb-b90a-45b4-a7f0-63f11f75435e/bild-1931.13.0330.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out It’s really not fair or reasonable for me to use this strainer as my example, because it isn’t for ale. It’s not even for milk. And, I don’t even own it, though I wish I did. It’s for palm oil, and is a pre-1967 West African example, from Sierra Leone. But this is my favorite of all of the strainers. The article I got this picture from was written by my friend and nålbinding mentor, Anne Marie Decker, after I asked her if she had an article about strainers up yet. She did not, but she kindly wrote one for me to use here (and for other binders to learn from). I also subscribe to her Patreon, although I admit I can only contribute the tiniest fraction of what her work is worth. I hope y’all will find her work as interesting as I do! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1647870034413-9YNDNVLHXDIIKPYUHKJ6/unsplash-image-yZFuzQ5hp5c.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out In all honestly, I didn’t expect Getty to have any pictures of dock. They had one, and it’s the exact part of the plant you need to see. Leslie Saunders/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713494254-1PZY9JCKAJK3318VELYZ/processed_20210812_113732.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out I think you need a picture at this point, but I’m not brewing right now so this picture is from the prior ale article. I have cases of mead conditioning in my bedroom closet (seriously?), more conditioning in my pantry, and more still fermenting. It’s everywhere, so until I deal with my mead situation or actually need to ensure my water is safe, beer is on hold. Anyway, any pictures about my process are happening from the prior article because I have no new stuff for you. This picture shows herbs (looks like there’s some mint in there alongside the other stuff), either bran or germ (don’t remember), and dock seeds. There are also some leaves and stems in there, as you can see. No hair don’t care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713531891-5VYYOBZFFKM9FJ6FADKU/processed_20210812_114827.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out This is the wort prior to me removing the bag. You can see how dark it is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713564068-A7VKU8JSZI0OBWMC7FV5/processed_20210814_160709.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out So cloudy! This is full of trub because I did use sourdough starter, and probably there was a bit of other stuff I didn’t filter out well enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713617922-SQBAPT8PGJF7IS6046IC/processed_20210913_122158.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out As you can see, the brew will clarify itself over time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1632002404512-6W246ZUG8EHXN6HUTDGC/processed_1632002388486.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out You can see the yuck up top, and you can see the remaining trub as well. Most of that, though not all, is the sourdough starter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1632002340241-L97A5VYJ0CB0Z5DWBU7E/processed_20210918_165725.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Brew Ales and Similar - Make it stand out These were conditioned, mostly. I believe Ross drank one fresh, and that he assigned me with the task of figuring out what to do with the one with lots of trub. Not really sure what happened there, beyond it being the last bottle and clearly having had some butterfingers that disrupted my decanting. I’m pretty sure I used that bottle in place of water for a loaf of bread, because that’s what I always do with those random bottles of trubby ale that sometimes happen. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes-fgde9-xkt66-pphtt-eex7g-tl823-yla67 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This globe is in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Child Tester never can get enough of this one! The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your annual temperatures will be. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your annual temperatures will be. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-chapter-5-7g5h9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598023016327-5FBSXT669294TYJ47E1H/51rodSzPjzL._AC_UL600_SR600%2C600_.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Pepper packets! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598023355654-7BOHGPUO98M7QOT6MV4B/image003.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) This map gives you a good idea of how things were going during the early this period and also last post’s period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598195375272-MMCB8EH8MAFR8X8WIFW4/829298-51420-tfzvrgkald-1487068475.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Yale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598199719223-QGH22B7W1MVONHVROJB7/Screenshot+2020-08-23+at+11.21.43+AM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) “According to George Washington’s ledger, on May 8, 1784, he paid 6 pounds 2 shillings to ‘Negros for 9 Teeth on Acct of Dr Lemoin.’” This is listed in the 6th “By” from the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598201625553-HXRTYXPR4VLBN6VAT1QA/triangular-trade-route-map.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Triangular Trade Route Map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598205011137-NAZZNZBXG97WPQQXUGP8/Haitian_Revolution-e1544608014759.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) This represents the Haitian Revolution, or Haitian Slave Revolution, which was conducted against the French from 1791-1804. They won, paving the way for other slave revolts. It wasn’t until 1848 that all French-owned slaves were emancipated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598209405984-Y7KGVE2W0E2A9X7GFK0L/800px-Captain_John_Carnes%2C_by_William_Verstille%2C_c._1800%2C_oil_on_canvas_-_Peabody_Essex_Museum_-_DSC07046.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) This is Carnes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598210751889-VO4MYDLX4HH5102ET4TE/SpicEx1.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Although I can’t claim that this is the most contemporary source possible, it gives a good visual representation of how pepper fares when contrasted to other spices. It’s impressive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598210915106-RO6H7AIS6U0PLHEET6A6/USpice1.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) The graph for American imports graph paints a different picture, where pepper is substantially more yes to us than the other spices in the spice set. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-chapter-4-rl5hd monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597340052131-WRP1IL5YBV22GYI8WZCI/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 Anas/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597417488994-8W9GVZF6F8TV3BVQZMOB/d78c3fbbaa26d8d195e7d67be68e5147.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 “Priory register detailing the food ordered for a visit by King Henry VII in around 1501.It includes the following: 3 and a half tuns of ale (a 'tun' of liquid was around 240-250 gallons),1 tun of wine,4 pounds of pepper,1 pound of saffron,1 pound of cloves and mace,2 pounds of cinnamon,2 pounds of ginger,12 pounds of small raisins,8 pounds of dates,20 pounds of sugar,4 oxen,20 sheep,3 dozen capons,3 dozen chickens,2 larded capons for the King,4 cygnets,2 peacocks,18 rabbits,100 eggs.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597418526531-UEH1G83HO24AOCL97U90/220px-Welsh_Dragon_%28Y_Ddraig_Goch%29.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 Henry VII is probably why we all know the Welsh Dragon. Although the symbol is from a much earlier time period, it became the official symbol of Wales under him. This was to symbolize the critical aid that Henry received from the Welsh in securing the throne. Henry VII was also of Welsh ancestry, and the Tudor name stems from that heritage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597505753342-W6VJ7QFH1BMN52HJREW9/2123d53de11dc0f217e19bc06ddda5ba.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This pepper mill belonged to Henry VIII and was found on the sunken Mary Rose, his favorite ship. “When archaeologists opened this pepper mill from the Mary Rose they were met with a whiff of the spice and found peppercorns still inside.Being able to put pepper on your food in Tudor period was a sign of wealth as it was an expensive luxury.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597509059980-U8VSMFBHBPH6SYEZ4ZII/1436768.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is woad at the stage where it needs to be used for dyeing. Once it’s in its second year and produces those lovely yellow flowers you can’t see here, it’s useless as a dye. I have woad seeds, and hope to one day plant them at my kid’s school, where I intend to amend the community garden we’re developing to include a dyer’s garden. This is also the plant that Picts and a few other Celtic tribes in the British Isles used to paint themselves with before war so they’d look all scary. Y’all would recognize this from Braveheart, even though the Scots didn’t actually perform this pre-war step. There’s also zip for evidence that Scots were using tartans yet, and instead they dressed pretty much the same as everyone else in Europe during that era. Just sayin’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597509197040-RWWBT3QBPFSIRVZPGRCZ/img_0440.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 These are some of the blues you can get from woad. The final product’s color and saturation will depend on what mordant, if any, was used in the dyeing process. Mordants are chemical additives that help set the color so they’re actually dyed instead of stained (stains come out; dyes do not). This really is rather a lot of article space dedicated to a dyer’s plant that has exactly nothing to do with pepper. Let’s move on from this before I get trapped in a thought loop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597510114198-VI4VTWC3O6DM9ZCAA9GF/case_3a_477_sig_a6v_a7r.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is a very cool text, done by Walter Bailey in 1588 (30 years into Elizabeth’s reign). For those of you who can’t read this, here’s what it says in more modern English (with spellings mostly normalized and some words entirely modernized): Thus as Dioscorides writes, and hereby also we are to understand that the old saying is fabulous and untrue, that pepper is made black with fire. For the merchants which brought the peppers, said, that serpents and venomous beasts did use much to be under these pepper trees, and that they were driven to stay away those serpents with making fires under the trees, before they durst gather the peppers, and so the pepper was made black by the fire. But now we learn by the histories penned by the latter writers, that all this is untrue, and that black pepper is of that color by his own kind, when it is ripe: and so that for white pepper is of his own kind, even of that color when it is ripe. As the red grape has that color naturally when it is ripe, and the white grape keeps his color even to his full ripeness. Wherefore those writers were much deceived, which affirmed, that white and black pepper were of one tree: and that white pepper was the fruit not thoroughly ripe, and that black pepper was the same perfectly ripe. For (say they) as in our country, when we gather apples, all of the same tree are not of like ripeness, some not full ripe, some full ripe, some over ripe, and all are gathered at one time: so, say these men, when the merchants do gather pepper, some grains are thoroughly ripe, and they black and wrinkled, some not full ripe, and they whiter in color, and smooth not wrinkled. But it appears that by which they have delivered to us, which have seen and gathered both these kinds of peppers, that they are gathered of several trees, and that each does perfectly ripe in his kind, and each retains his color: the white grain when it is ripe keeps the white color, and the black pepper when it is ripe keeps his black color. Even as the white grape being ripe remains white, and the red grape red, and yet each do come off several vine trees different in kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597515419225-S2HPVA5JKLDUB01XVXMR/the-golden-speech-sp-12-282-ff137-141.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is the full Golden Speech (1601), which I translate as follows: Her Majesty’s most princely answer, delivered by herself at the Court of Whitehall, on the last day of November 1601: When the Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament (assisted with the greatest part of the Knights and Burgesses) had presented their humble thanks for her free and gracious favor in preventing and reforming of sundry grievances, by abuse of many Grants, commonly called Monopolies. The same being taken verbatim in writing by A.B. as near as could possible set it down. Imprinted at London. Anno 1601. (title page) [skipping the repeat of title page on page 138] Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent they are fallen into the due consideration of the (138) precious gift of thankfulness, most usually least esteemed, where it is best deserved. And therefore we charge you tell them how acceptable such sacrifice is worthily of a loving King, who doubts much whether the given thanks can be of more poise than the owed is to them: and suppose that they had done more for us, than they themselves believe. And this is our reason: Who keeps their Sovereign from the lapse of error, in which, by ignorance, and not by intent, they might have fallen; what thanks they deserve, we know, though you may guess. And as nothing is more dear to us than the loving conservation of our subjects’ hearts, What an underserved doubt we might have incurred, if the abusers of our liberality, the thrallers of our people (2) the wringers of the poor had not been told [to] us! Which, ere our heart or hand agree unto, which we had neither: and do thank you more, supposing that such griefs touch not upon you in particular [emphasis mine]. We trust there resides, in their conceits of us, no such simple cares of their good, whom we so dearly prize, that our hand should passe, outght that might injury any, though they doubt not it is lawful for our kingly state to grant gifts of sundry sorts of who we make election, either for service done, or to merit to be deserved, as being for a King to make choice on who to bestor benefits, more to one then another. You must not beguile yourselves, nor wrong us, to think that the glowing luster of a glittering glory of a King’s title may so extol us, that we think all (3) is lawful what we list, not caring what we do: Lord, how far should you be off from our conceits! For our part, we vow unto you, that we suppose Physicians aromatic favors, which in the top of the Potion they deceive the Patients with, or Gilded drugs that they cover their bittersweet with, are not more beguilers of senses than the vain board of a kingly name may deceive the ignorant of such an office. I grant, that such a Prince, as cares not for the dnitity, nor passes not how the reins should be guided, so be rule, to such a one, it may seem an easy business. But you are cumbered (I dare assume) with no such Princh, but such a one, as looks how to give account before another Tribunal seat than this world affords, and that hopes, what if we (4) discharge with conscience what he bids, will not lay to our charge the fault that our Substitutes (not being our crime) fall in. We think ourselves most fortunately born under such a star, as we have been enabled by God’s power to have saved you under our reign, from foreign foes, from Tyrants’ rule, and from your own ruin; and do confess, that we pass, not so much to be a Queen, as to be a Queen of such subjects, for whom (God is witness, without boast or want) we would willing lose our life, ere see such to perish. I bless God, he has never given me this fault of fear; for he knows best; whether ever fear possessed me, for all my dangers: I know it is his gift; and not to hide his glory, I say it. For were it not for conscience, and for (5) your sake, I would willingly yield another to my place, so great is my pride in reigning, that she that wishes no longer to be, then Best and Most would have me so. You know our preference cannot assist each action, but must distribute in sundry sorts to divers kinds our commands. If they (as the greatest numbers be commonly the worst) should (as I doubt not that some do) abuse their charge, annoy whom they should help, and dishonor their king, whom they should serve: yet we verily believe, that all you will (in your best judgment) discharge us from such guilts. Thus we commend us to your constant faith, and yourselves to your best fortunes (6). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597519550534-P8UO09X7Z2LAD638W8B9/Elizabeth-I-facts-4.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is the highly recognizable Armada Portrait, which was commissioned after Elizabeth trounced Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597524207556-F92NIJ264NOKXCHBRZNU/Screenshot+2020-08-15+at+3.39.25+PM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This map shows you what most nations were up to with these routes. The Dutch don’t really need their own during most of this period, since they were mainly working for the Portuguese. You can see that 1577-1580 is the golden period for getting England into this game. I personally find this map most usable if one uses their finger to keep track of where the line one wants is going. Also, the gap in the map dates, I believe, stems from the Crusades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597526457487-TN8ZLM726LJJLXVWPSM7/visscher_070.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 “This map of the East Indies was originally printed in the late sixteenth century to entice Dutch investors to take control of the region and the spice trade from the Portuguese. Note the spices (nutmeg, cloves, and sandalwood) on the bottom edge.” This is from before the Dutch had arrived as a major player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597536908198-9EL92MZCAL9E8G11BD7F/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 Louis XIV. He was, at one point, the most powerful dude in all of Europe. It is from this Louis that men start wearing wigs again, because he didn’t enjoy the balding process and accordingly sought to cover it up. Enter trickle down fashion! High heels during this time were also worn by men, not women. Originally, heels were created to aid men in war-related horseback riding, but that ultimately was appropriated by Catherine de Medici. She popularized it briefly for women, but then when she died, women stopped wearing them because men preferred to be taller. Women also used to wear shockingly tall platform shoes when they couldn’t wear heels before men decided they needed to be taller. A couple centuries later, Louis was super into heels. It became a status symbol to wear them, and anyone without permission to do so probably knew they’d be beheaded for the fashion statement well before it happened to them. Beheading did sometimes happen to them, though. Women didn’t wear heels during this time; just men of extraordinary means and status. Women “get” to keep heels later after men give up on them because women liked them so much. It’s a tragedy, really, that women got stuck with these when men could’ve kept them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597539665502-6BNCYZSUAHHMJO4A7UBL/Untitled-design-19-4.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 TANTRUMS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597541174892-LKVHCE9RMLLWVSQ67ZV4/05940203c93d72b6f5a339fa330c2f59.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This tech didn’t exist then, obviously, but this is how “not pretty” it all was. Ross admonished me for not including the following song in place of this picture, and he’s right so I’m giving both. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-part-3-5jfh3 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596986923288-DQ30ME7S9S6N10T6REVX/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 3 Kirsty Hughes/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596508150039-OFN5QMBB037F0HB756U7/800px-Eastern_Mediterranean_1450.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 3 This is what the end of the Byzantium Empire looked like. Not pretty, mainly. The Byzantine-Ottoman wars took just over 200 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596513000249-7J7MLGZA9HNUWE97AAXJ/1024px-Vinland_Map_HiRes.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 3 This is the Vinland Map, presumed to represent what Leif Ericsson was up to, and this journey presumably was based on another prior Scandinavian adventurer’s journey. That guy was named Bárdi Herjólfsson, and he sighted mainland North most peopleno one seem not to know his name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596513361767-94IG2QZQX6V5XNU7VR1E/1024px-Gama_route_1.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 3 This was de Gama’s route, and it took from from 1497-1499 to get there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596516048388-R7KODIXSF0N5YPWVJW42/1333.970.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 3 Allspice. You can see how Columbus could’ve gotten confused about what he was bringing back with him. Although it doesn’t look like peppercorn, a reasonable person could extrapolate that it was a different type of peppercorn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596517506718-KL1LBJLMDVAC3LOEJME6/Map_of_Portuguese_Carreira_da_India.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 3 This is just what Portugal was up to in the 16th. This also leaves out their exploration of Labrador and other northern parts of our hemisphere. “Map showing the various outward and return legs of the Portuguese 'Carreira da India' ('India Run') in the 16th C” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596740529572-SGTMYFMXR3MUSK4RHY0A/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 3 To be honest, I didn’t expect my Getty search to do nearly so good a job at giving me the nutmeg and mace together like I asked for. This picture is done by Ian Yeo, and shows the fruit split open. That red webbing is called an aril, which is the covering of the seed. This is just like with pomegranate, where the red part is the aril and the inner white bit is the seed. Nutmeg is the seed of Myristica fragrans, and I would really like to grow this tree. I am just outside its growing zone, so I will give it 10 years for climate change to bring me the ability to grow my own mace (and nutmeg). I love love love mace, though nutmeg isn’t interesting at all to me. *Up until a few years ago, when I found out I have aphantasia, I thought people were just saying they saw things in their heads. I had no idea people could for real do that! It’s all black screens in my corner of the minds-world, so I thought this language was used metaphorically. Yes, I dream in pictures. This is common for people who have aphantasia, including those of us on the more extreme end of the spectrum. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-part-2-amyzy monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596214832718-5SKYMHO1QX9C6GRN7MHV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 Sonja Punz/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596122219244-GI2HTN93L6TOSW6GWVVG/Henry-VIII-oil-panel-artist-National-Portrait.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 This is the Henry VIII y’all probably don’t recognize. This is before he had gone mad, presumably from syphilis or the treatment they used at that time: mercury. Back then, you took mercury for 6 weeks to cure this disease, and we all know why that’s bad. Henry VIII, oil on panel by an unknown artist, c. 1520; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596122504285-QXVWU7SW2D35TMN6CEEA/HENRYVIII_1-633x885.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 This is the Henry you probably do recognize; the portrait made 15 years before his death. Ross calls him “Lord Chungus.” We are ending today’s journey before this guy enters the scene. Portrait of Henry VIII, c.1532, formerly in the collection of Warwick Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596219650938-7ML8ERUOTZT2MF6MF7ND/YuanEmperorAlbumKhubilaiPortrait.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 Kublai Khan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596206527611-Y2549EY7UC7Y1PYEHP7H/1024px-Silk_route.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 This map is from circa 1090, which is right before the First Crusades. It’s very easy to see from the lines on the map how pepper was part of these raids on the Middle East. You can think of this as very early exploitation colonial attempts from Europeans against the East, because they weren’t super good at it yet. Practice, sadly, did ultimately make perfect, as we’ll see later in the series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596216648099-6WBB524YLAAWOCEOD334/Pope-Urban-II-Council-of-Claremont.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 I’m assuming this piece is from the 13th- or 14th-century, but am not positive. Either way, it represents the Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II presiding over the Council of Clermont, 1095. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596218629362-1XXUEPPEQP26BKZ30CNC/prayerbookbishleonhardvonlaymingen1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 This is meant to represent Wimund, who by all accounts I’ve seen was hated by everyone. He was a bishop and a pirate/warlord, and eventually another bishop had enough of him and smote him. He’s from the Second Crusade era. Anyway, this guy is also called the Scourge of Scotland, so that’s really how people felt about the matter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596297533794-40SZM3LMSY9RXMDARWXI/2010917peppercorns.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 Sichuan peppercorns. These are still totally used, primarily in China, but much of their use by elites during this time is displaced by peppercorns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596296412179-KOO1RYQ0LST7FLQXMY1W/135923.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 It’s really a ginormous swath of land space that, as you can see, extends into multiple contemporary national boundaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596300623960-RNF0WWPIO3J8YG0V83GK/330px-Lisboa-Museu_Nacional_de_Arte_Antiga-Retrato_dito_de_Vasco_da_Gama-20140917.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 Vasco de Gama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596219400335-Z9OPSLF6CWE0CXALSN9H/sqj_1504_vencie_atlas_01.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 2 Gifts to kings = status for you. This is what Part 3 is going to be all about. “A king is offered the fruits of a pepper harvest in this 15th-century illustration. (From the Livre des Merveilles du Monde, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Bridgeman Images)” https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-pp2l3 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595710317416-TE3ZKQY8NQCFDUGFLHK6/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 1 Tony Pham/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595779562741-U1L0YQIN6TBV3HM85HSZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 1 Pepper leaves. Pepper has some of the more beautiful cordate (heart-shaped) leaves out there. 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Also expensive because quite dangerous to be a spice trader! This is, with some spices, still true today about the danger part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595796697631-8YOBV50XD447MHR4D0N9/sgzoctyzsfc0skmtoj5w.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 1 “John the Evangelist page from the Lindisfarne Gospels (c. 635 CE): As is common in early medieval art, the figures in this page appear flat and stylized. The bench on which John sits does not recede realistically into the space behind him. Modeling is kept to a minimum, and the clothing that John wears does not acknowledge the body beneath.” Y’all should check this whole page out, though, because there’s some astonishing art you’d probably like to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595799735505-IA3NTQLTXU2L1FC9ABG3/1280px-Italy_to_India_Route.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 1 This is how it was basically functioning during this period, and has a lot to do with the upcoming Crusades happening at all. Looking at the map, I’m sure you can see how. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595800517722-FT5JMBB9DHA9ISIYITGA/The-Last-Kingdom-S4-Ep4-Aldhelm-and-Aethelflaed-TLK-1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 1 This is my favorite Aldhelm, who is not acting douchey like it appears he is without the context for this scene. This is from the 4th series of The Last Kingdom, and I’m choosing to not offer context so you might feel like watching one of my favorite shows, too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595801400320-5UMDV0UGCXIDMROORHTA/aldhelm.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Chapter 1 Here’s a stained glass representation of St. Aldhelm. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/backyard-gardening-for-sustenance-xgehf monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618839683933-T1GSLBLSM6SL66MGJKEL/unsplash-image-pU8ArN6tmuw.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance Yes, there really are food beating plants in this pic. 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Tell me that isn’t gorgeous; I dare you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1619097229879-L2P6HFK9W91AEM1H2WBD/01203_01_pampusplumehorz.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance Celosia! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/15a390c9-5b33-4c27-9c10-dec2b31a1545/Sweet-Potatoes.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out If the Karens in your HOA will ooh and aah over the lime green and purple leafed varieties, they should love this too! Make sure you check out the link for this picture, because it teaches you how to grow these. That’s not what I’m trying to do here. I’m trying to help you figure out what your HOA won’t fine you for growing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/a65e78f5-3ac7-4f48-8806-e4bf30b64beb/DSC_6154Optimized.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out This is taro’s leaves. Y’all know this plant! HOAs love these plants! Here’s also a link for how to process them into food! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/62ba7b36-1443-464a-baa5-41c80fa568dd/images.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out These are what sunchokes look like above ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/2cd6ef20-6fb7-40e7-b224-b726081aba08/478962.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Cannas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636390582423-EI3DJ6EZUA36DYY9ZQY9/unsplash-image-RoGdv1kk5XM.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Turmeric! Tamanna/Rumee/Getty That isn’t a turmeric flower, though. Turmeric flowers are pinker and taller. I’ve only personally seen them in pictures, though, because all I get from my pot of turmeric is showy, beautiful foliage plus turmeric to eat! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636390473571-4I7D7PH92WSPS0HWNJ7W/unsplash-image-bBiuSdck8tU.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Ren Ran/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/6933f300-f204-4bac-8983-7a46cecd71d0/Pumpkin-on-a-stick-600x400.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out This plant, called pumpkin-on-a-stick, is actually an eggplant. This is considered an ornamental plant, so enjoy your undercover eggplants! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636554912223-66TCX96W6E0MCC0Z4HC0/unsplash-image-M_xIaxQE3Ms.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Julia Zolotova/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/93a4c3b3-31ec-4ad3-8f0d-c62b95ccd085/RED-ORACH-scaled.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out In the end, I decided y’all needed to see orach. It’s another amaranth, so all parts edible. Tell me your neighbors aren’t going to think this is the prettiest, most interesting plant they’ve seen in ages! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/bsjsk6ht6hy769y9863pa844dgcgpn monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/russian-spelt-loaf-9w38y monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585750390873-6NIFT4DIB9YBJHA6HUP6/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Russian Spelt Loaf https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/resources-for-the-home-cook-part-2-cx5lf monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585534422816-GWOBLXCU82MI25KHZ6Q0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 2 Yet another kitchen I’d like as my daily! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585617374636-PC80YSR0DQBHCR2XY2U8/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 2 This is a legitimately interesting tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585619382210-MWEXNU952YIW18X7C7AZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 2 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/resources-for-the-home-cook-ehrtp monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585329083755-P8LIYNMSHIBLHS1KFMIW/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 They still look friendly, don’t they? Also, I have a lot of want for that kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585491751136-S9HIHQ7CTFPPWJCV8OXM/Conversion-Chart.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 This site’s chart is not as comprehensive as some of you might like (because lacks the full range of flours), but it will get the job done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585492799023-IU3NWVE8NQCQ0W85KGX4/salter+scale.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I’ve had this thing so long I forgot that it used to have that metal plate. I wonder where that plate went, anyway! I’d show you my actual scale, but then I’d have to clean my kitchen first and I just cannot with all that right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585493616217-JQ2PL964Z48TQ47N5K0S/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I should like to be on the beach right now. I am instead cooped up in my apartment like everyone else. Baking restores my calm, though, so win win! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585495401825-WFTRL2P5ZV6J56I7JRN8/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 Libraries are the real houses of knowledge: free, widely available, frequently digitized, and can teach you basically anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585495822054-5LPZRXYN6AYG770545YZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 Do the Dew. Except not Mountain Dew - Research Dew! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585499157312-KCBSI8YCPZIOHQ02HLVZ/the+butcher+shop+1500s.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 What a cool painting! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585500500504-SI1GUVWZ8DKACKHCMMMR/Oregon-Trail-900x530.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 TBH, I find I die a lot more often of cholera in this game, but dysentery seems unfun as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585500663773-P1LJ9I0E3XYIO57VFKBI/soylent+green.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I almost went with a Charlton Heston meme, but this was too funny to ignore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585502656701-TBRRWH0Y366Y35S3DG6A/FKBRLQNRRQ9RFK1RI0TQE0R0E0DR60R020Z090L0IQ00IQTRN0Z0M0DQ3KBRX0JQI0URJKJQW0H0W0.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I’ve never hated a caterpillar before, but I hate the white-marked tussock moth caterpillar because they are currently terrorizing me with some sort of Biblical-style pestilence. 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- Make it stand out Kostiantyn Li https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/da5kb42rkstn2jjlblrp79cwdhne98 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/creme-fraiche-ice-cream-ay9bz monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1555257549942-N3QDMWUDYZVS9DVJDXXN/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - OH YEAH! Creme Fraiche Ice Cream! - Crème Fraiche Ice Cream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1555255865318-V7UQYJZCQ9OYA7GT2QUY/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - OH YEAH! Creme Fraiche Ice Cream! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-i-really-bake-when-im-not-baking-for-yall-n474t monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675141796-KAMLFIXIB2L3E516ZXKN/processed_20200516_163451.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675169829-X2AE1HAK3KPUCYEP78MD/processed_20200516_163534.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I really just swiped my hand through the middle of the flour. You can probably tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675222009-FRPSV7CCC66XY23AJKFH/processed_20200516_163637.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675249883-Q968G8T2OEW6IWQVGYFU/processed_20200516_163758.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Randomly decided there should be cheese in the loaf. That is a spatula, also. While I often prefer to mix everything with just my hands, spatulas are the next best thing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675273299-T5P84OTUC9GNNVJDRJ6O/processed_20200516_163838.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Can’t have too much cheese! There’s probably a good cup or so in here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675293691-DE3ZPWCQ3C1MLWWZGPIR/processed_20200516_163959.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I am not the beer drinker in this family. There were more Lonestars, but this was the better size for my loaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675315611-NWW2XQEYBSW4WR2WCULE/processed_20200516_164042.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Literally added the beer, put saran on, and left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675388477-RGD3XCRJZ9PCFP7MZ032/processed_20200516_182138.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster That’s not true. Standard is 15-30. For someone with hands the same size as your average 10 year old possesses, I sure do fat finger a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675433853-HZ3NZRFDGK9BURUOF319/processed_20200516_182221.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I’m too short to knead with the bowl on the counter. Kitchens are not made for short people. Also, I really love this show, and it’s excellent to bake with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675458781-4ELYGXNZDU4QHMU51DKY/processed_20200516_182254.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Noticeable change in elasticity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675480164-JNJ47R54OFEE10EWAP4A/processed_20200516_182310.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Somewhat smoother, also more elasticity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675505171-NW8CTIZ4YBO0TZUQOMEW/processed_20200516_182340.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Ditto ditto. When the pizza shows up, you cover your dough and go eat! I ate a lot. Child Tester (age 7) impressively ate all but 1 slice of her 10” pizza! I was shocked! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675545434-BG9DY2HENBWTYFXRJC30/processed_20200516_182602.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster No really. I could go for a nap about now. I too ate a whole lot. 3 slices, a bunch of fried mushrooms, and a salad. I don’t feel pukey, but close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675573291-406SGB49N3ZQDWS9Y1NJ/processed_20200516_183112.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster See above notes with my estimates on how much of what is in here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675602878-ROH64KWZPSZT89UKVBZF/processed_20200516_183727.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Huge difference 5 minutes makes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675631769-PB3RQM6NRCDWOQQZZR0V/processed_20200516_184330.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675660022-TLW8EHSO03ZSWJRWMZB7/processed_20200516_184613.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster For real. I am fully aware that there’s spilt pizza cheese there. I look at it daily, judge myself silently, and close the oven door before telling myself, “I’ll do that later.” Meh. Not like anyone is coming over to look at it, anyway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681435804-OSY9SCKCLXBPT2UGT72I/processed_20200516_205409.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I know you can’t tell, but it did grow. Not as much as it would have, had it had a proper rise and sufficient kneading, but good enough for me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681456177-GTF7FA9NRHEZ8E5DPM8H/processed_20200516_205541.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster How exactly does one lose a napkin holder? Did it get purged and I don’t remember? If so, why would I purge it? Rice flour is the more common flour for bannetons. I normally use whatever I’m baking with, but… it was here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681478193-1SE8VRLO8HUEG0CNPY0I/processed_20200516_205629.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Jack provides an exceptional tutorial on this. I may have used this in other articles. Jack is adorable with all his boyish enthusiasm, which makes it much easier to pay attention. Second shapings give loaves better structure and rise. They also help to compensate for lazy kneading. I think it’s clear, though, that all I’m really trying to do is have a loaf in the house while I get the Berkshire ready for lardy cake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681508756-PWFHNOERZUTPFZ4VCZWE/processed_20200516_205715.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster If you put them in these (or bowls, or whatever you’re using that isn’t just parchment paper to hold your dough during second rise) upside down, it’s easier to get them out and into the oven. Lot less risk of degassing your loaf right after you’ve taken (or kind of, in my case) the time to rise it. I have no expectation of a fantastic rise from this one, but we’ll see what happens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681534124-G45LN3LU6VODQLZ590UV/processed_20200516_205812.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster This is why I do almost everything on my laptop. My phone typing is nearly unintelligible. Translation: “It gets an hour to do second rise. I would normally do at least twice that, but I’m tired.” I was tired before I started this adventure, if we’re being fair. I fantasize daily about 12-hour sleeps. I miss those a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589684353984-X6YGYI8KZ7NJ45CTOXQ0/processed_20200516_215738.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster You can also tell that it just hasn’t risen much. Again, I expected this. I also still don’t care. I’m looking for delicious, not tall. Although I definitely will judge a loaf by its crust, I tend not to consider height. Once the oven beeps, this is going in no matter what. It will still be delicious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589686914226-4KVQYAOZDGH51P95PZFO/processed_20200516_222946.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster It’s here that I decided this was not going to be a photo series that only appears in the FB group, and that it’d be more useful if it were accessible to all. You can tell because I am basically not captioning these pictures anymore and am instead using more text text. As opposed to photo text. I’m not sure if there are different terms other than “text text” and “photo text”/”captions.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589687779194-BKID260VUVTH2ZJVX09M/processed_20200516_225512.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster NOT DONE!!! Turn that bad boy around and let it cook longer! You can clearly see that I didn’t cut that S properly. It should have been deeper, which would have stopped the split that happened in its middle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589688831202-GVXL2RWDQABQXI3IJODU/processed_20200516_231123.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster 15 minutes later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589724830527-ZWD8R87Z849WJBZNM7R3/processed_20200517_090857.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589727355326-YKKJ2X06DU15MCSTT9O8/processed_20200517_095110.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Looks better. My oven has some serious hot spots. You can tell by the uneven browning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589727516832-S1XSVQG5JF6YJR6131TH/processed_20200517_095724.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Compacted crumb is unbaked crumb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589730477994-75K5FC8DS4D1YNX3ZW1O/processed_20200517_104613.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/3gydx5rf488wwp34m4cxgnzfwlp6sl monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/homemade-bavarian-sourdough-pretzels-cpwz9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures-75cgh-5k8al-w8a7z-xygbb-ewg7z-fw7p7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618340391245-FURG6Y5W9MA7TANLTPL7/processed_20210413_135533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures As you can see, I reorganized this section of the freezer! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mpbjrnb9xmjxns4wf4r8gshcc9eenn monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/using-up-leftovers-fried-pasta monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653841803-0VF5QHDBBTZHQKA2EDZI/processed_20211014_175603.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: Fried Pasta Get your leftovers out of the pot and into the frying pan! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653873034-X22B9NMUU4O7SBG25BDB/processed_20211014_181134.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: Fried Pasta You can see here that there’s not a ton of oil in the pan still, because the pasta soaks it all up. You can also see that the pasta is starting to cook nicely. I let it sit there and think about what’s happening for a while before stirring. Some people like their fried pasta like this, though I can’t claim I understand it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653896201-WGISYXW829N2Z4YMXJLW/processed_20211014_182645.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: Fried Pasta Keep on frying! Most people I know like it more like this, but for me? Still frying! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653922943-1IVNHBDA9G4C6L6A39GY/processed_20211014_184533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: Fried Pasta This is how my family like theirs, though I often want even more char than that. I was super hungry, though, so I pulled it here since that’s good enough even if not perfectly charred. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/more-runny-activation-batches-65t8d-zkhsm-zmggj-aflb7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603728046427-8HYJWLCBDT7WC8LULM01/4695213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Runny Yogurt Activation Batches https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ategrnxklyans5j92sfh32ms8mlgjw monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412579878-R7RLXE6SJPUNZY8CQ2TB/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pasta-puttanesca monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635988334180-6JRCPHBPTHV52HFS65WW/processed_20211103_194244.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - $5 Meals: Pasta Puttanesca I was gonna get y’all a better picture, but when I came back to do so, I discovered Ross mid-way through the bowl. He figured I’d left it on the counter so he’d eat it and we’d have fewer leftovers in the fridge and decided to go with second dinner. I appreciate that he was trying to have my back on the leftovers front! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/yogurt-activation-woes-and-how-to-stop-having-them-y9b3j monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1628089426742-A8XVSK4Q5VO28EFO9BVL/The-More-You-Know-340x226.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt Activation Woes, and How to Stop Having Them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cxzp7g7nbh6x5zbd8hcwyz4n5ndj7l monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412579878-R7RLXE6SJPUNZY8CQ2TB/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/three-sisters-stuffed-shells-pw6a4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728352860-O0Y2E22GP3XTHGYA5CXE/processed_20201129_162835.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Your mixture will look something like this. This is what was leftover for freezing for future meals. There are probably 2 meals’ worth of filling in here. Put enough filling in each shell to fill it without overfilling it. This is a great time to pre-heat your oven to 400F/200C/GM6! Please preheat your oven now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728373355-RGVYNBZC0NV9MG5SAO2T/processed_20201129_162828.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells I like them in bread pans if I want to make it clear to the fam that we’re eating, not gorging. Your family size may vary, so how you do this may also vary. But get ‘em in whatever you’re baking them in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728392292-DEGYH2SU9FEI2EVVLJTW/processed_20201129_163529.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Whisk that sauce up and get it on there. It doesn’t have to be perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728411087-97QZSB5805NXJ4YYXN5G/processed_20201129_163738.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Cheese. Again, there is no such thing as too much cheese. Go nuts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728429818-N0L5E19JL94A7PZEXYQE/processed_20201129_163821.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells You want some foil on your shells. Time to put them in that preheated oven! Bake those puppies around 30 minutes, then remove the foil and give them however long they need to brown the cheese well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728449935-P3TLEEWBKLRJI0L44IZS/processed_20201129_174941.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Like this. This was 20 minutes for me. Usually it’s 15, so my oven is playing tricks on me! Please let this cool for at least 5 minutes once it comes out. If you ignore this, I don’t want y’all blaming me for your mouth burns! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728489007-HD1875QJBILBXVMSRQSE/processed_20201129_175242.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Last: enjoy!! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes-fgde9-xkt66-pphtt-eex7g-tl823 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This globe is in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Child Tester never can get enough of this one! The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your annual temperatures will be. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your annual temperatures will be. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/2z4dk5gknazwfrpw9m5w2skjdj9x6s monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412579878-R7RLXE6SJPUNZY8CQ2TB/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sweet-and-sour-pumpkin-pancakes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/a5e8d708-d6d5-4d42-b75a-3e49be8b82ba/L1020999.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sweet-and-Sour Pumpkin Pancakes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/kimchi-an-origin-story-5ptg8 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593894938458-KJAPHBXLJRFSKD6KV33I/Gochugaru.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story This is Korean chile powder, also called gochugaru. Gochugaru literally translates to chile pepper powder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593906843632-3EU0F6J36H5YZ70C0L5V/processed_20200704_175443.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story This is the baechu (Napa) kimchi in my fridge. It is not a pogi kimchi, because I did not leave the head of cabbage intact. I cut the carrots big, for textural reasons. I admit with zero shame that although I have gochugaru in my house, I use the kimchi kit we sell for my own kimchi and that of the friends I make it for. It’s a massive time saver and is ridiculously tasty, which I need in my life more than I can articulate. Poor Sabrina always has to send me new kits, since I like ours too much to mix the various ingredients up myself. Unrelatedly, I just noticed that I see in this picture that Child Tester did not wipe down the table after dinner as she was meant to. Busted! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593892135568-8XSD9XF3UDUGT78VTF5V/earlywriting.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story These pictures indicate linguistic history of kimchi in Korea in 963CE. There is dispute as to whether kimchi was adapted from Japanese or Chinese vegetable preservation techniques or if kimchi has a uniquely Korean origin. The authors of this study make a convincing argument that kimchi is, in fact, uniquely Korean. Many other studies also clearly demonstrate that kimchi can only be uniquely Korean in its origin. The work pictured here is different from the Chinese one mentioned above, and is written around 700 years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593904861608-7JX00C0L2OIO4F6RWPI2/Historical-writings-showing-A-jo-ju-referring-to-kimchi-and-B-sung-song-referring_W640.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story “Historical writings showing: (A) jo (菹) referring to kimchi; and (B) sung (菘) referring to cabbage in the Hunmongjahoe (訓蒙字會) by Choi (崔世珍; 1343)” (Ibid). Cabbage? Check. Kimchi? Check. All from 1343CE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593907284876-9KHPGNZ8PNVU51NC6K9X/5216570508916.image.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story I didn’t know I needed a kimchi fridge until I started writing this post, but I do. From everything I read, LG makes some particularly nice ones. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/9h8ydypk3zfh73x8drf2egzr3ytbsy monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412579878-R7RLXE6SJPUNZY8CQ2TB/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/buckwheat-stuffed-pumpkin monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653111918-I57D50ZDHWX0D3QUTAXX/processed_20211106_132221.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin This is my use it up picture. The almond flour isn’t relevant to the pumpkin, though it and the yeast were relevant to the rolls I was also making. I figured the easiest way to get rid of the almond flour would be to tump it into my flour mix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653133825-23MPKAZ81VIUOCSZ0Q85/processed_20211106_163240.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin The buckwheat needs to go in a pot with water (about 1:2 ratio) and will simmer for 10-15 minutes. Drain it well when it’s done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653154714-X9RTV3H7SNFFALN2HVHP/processed_20211106_163257.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Okay. I used that little corer you can see to cut open my pumpkin with that nice scallop pattern and also to scrape insides out. These styles of corers are easy to use and rather magical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653181343-UVSO6K44NSH50WORYDGO/processed_20211106_163530.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin The edge is sharp along a larger percentage of the blade, so you can also use it as a scraper. That’s how I got all the seeds and guts out. Don’t throw those guts away, please. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653209063-ID2WOA4XT6RZ3R9QVHSY/processed_20211106_163534.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Now you see why I’m strongly recommended the corer, yes? My hands didn’t get messy at all, either, unlike what happens with the hands or spoon method. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653228491-O0IG08HQSTCN6KWY7R74/processed_20211106_165601.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Remove guts from seeds the best you can. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653249971-34VKHCPQFK9E40RLEH43/processed_20211106_165840.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Still some bits there. It’s whatever. Your oven should be set to 400F, because these guys want some baking. Make sure you add a little salt and pepper, plus some oil of your choosing before you roast these for about 15 minutes. I used these as a topping on our individual plates. There were some leftover, so those ones were for snacking. You could also season with coriander, cumin, clove, and/or cinnamon and that likely would taste good too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653267819-VN2OSMP68UTABVWVZODR/processed_20211106_165926.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Don’t throw those guts out! Chop them up!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653285657-VXNQZQYXZ8OSQHB590EP/processed_20211106_171221.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Here we have the peeled and diced eggplant, the leeks, shallots, chile, and bell peppers. I use different veggies every time I make this, because I only make it as a convenient way to get rid of a lot of odds and ends in one shot. This is a great fridge cleaning meal! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653308479-7ZDZUQOI1AQXU9GTLZA5/processed_20211106_171357.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Mix them up, yum! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653334378-QBP8KC10L6VZU2I88FLE/processed_20211106_171419.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Buckwheat is done, and so are the seeds! Try to control yourself with the seeds, since others may want some too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653359490-EK1BWLOSLQSQ2QHW26LS/processed_20211106_171512.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Buckwheat goes in with veggies. You can see the grain is still steaming. It doesn’t have to be steaming. It could be cold leftover rice instead, or whatever grain you’ve got on hand! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653392104-NZ5RR0CATC35788CX7SP/processed_20211106_171944.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin That is nicely mixed. Pumpkin went in a cast iron pan with water and got a funnel in it. I like the funnel because it’s easier and cleaner. But wait… who’s that little can sitting there? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653411733-6LK7YQ51VZ0XGG5FXRUP/processed_20211106_171949.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Ahhh man! I forgot about this guy and wasn’t sad about it. I really do not wish to waste food, though, so in it goes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653427903-0Z2G9NVX9586G6PBJ9P7/processed_20211106_172028.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Did y’all know that contemporary potted meat is cat food marketed to humans? I sure didn’t until this happened? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653449062-ITYAAOM7E49QGMOFVX97/processed_20211106_172111.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Cat food legitimately doesn’t appeal to me, so although I almost scooped it out of the mix and into the trash, my frugal heart stopped me and I mixed the paste in the best I could. I had a lot of doubts, and kind of didn’t want to eat the dinner I was cooking at this point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653479059-WIY6UILDBKV3WA4CBQOO/processed_20211106_172157.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Pack it in there. No, seriously, pack it in tight. If you pretend this is meatloaf (spoiler alert: you could use meat instead of grain!) and make it dense in there, it won’t fall apart when you cut it open. You’ll see that below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653512152-I50UWMFT09S06NY05YKY/processed_20211106_172328.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin I used half. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653531492-UC6JPDAYTXDJHWSQSYWL/processed_20211106_172340.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Put the lid back on so your pumpkin is closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653552530-HPJ98MX49WFNW6ICRYE0/processed_20211106_172416.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin From what I could see, it all looked happy in there. Due to the density, it needs 45-60 minutes in there to fully cook the squash and filling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653582133-EG9YN21PT288R1S6CFDF/processed_20211106_172632.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Into the freezer for the next one! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653614306-MJJDY61DNSTR4OT81E57/processed_20211106_173930.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin While your squash is baking, throw some dough together. I put almond flour in here to get it out of my pantry. I feel like something else went in for similar purpose, but I’ve forgotten already. I didn’t measure anything, but rather threw together some ingredients, started kneading it all together, then passed it onto Ross to finish kneading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653648758-IHYSNEPJC87BE7W8Y4SM/processed_20211106_194509.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin He also shaped the dough when it was done rising. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653669758-6I4Z8TD44YL9B3O32YR7/processed_20211106_202026.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin We are baked! You can tell it’s baked if you stick a fork or knife in the side and it passes through to the filling easily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653685086-PLHDGLP8NH4ZX9GWHWDV/processed_20211106_202045.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Like so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653739492-S64S6CPCGWEJJH8OZCX0/processed_20211106_203624.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Don’t forget to take your bread out of the oven so it can cool down a bit before you nom it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636653708256-8JYYPXE3SHHAEO2VDHSV/processed_20211106_202303.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Buckwheat Stuffed Pumpkin Dinner! We cut this into quarters, because it’s 4 large/dense servings. Nom away, and we hope you enjoy it! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/backyard-gardening-for-sustenance monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618839683933-T1GSLBLSM6SL66MGJKEL/unsplash-image-pU8ArN6tmuw.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance Yes, there really are food beating plants in this pic. 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Tell me that isn’t gorgeous; I dare you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1619097229879-L2P6HFK9W91AEM1H2WBD/01203_01_pampusplumehorz.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance Celosia! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/15a390c9-5b33-4c27-9c10-dec2b31a1545/Sweet-Potatoes.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out If the Karens in your HOA will ooh and aah over the lime green and purple leafed varieties, they should love this too! Make sure you check out the link for this picture, because it teaches you how to grow these. That’s not what I’m trying to do here. I’m trying to help you figure out what your HOA won’t fine you for growing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/a65e78f5-3ac7-4f48-8806-e4bf30b64beb/DSC_6154Optimized.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out This is taro’s leaves. Y’all know this plant! HOAs love these plants! Here’s also a link for how to process them into food! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/62ba7b36-1443-464a-baa5-41c80fa568dd/images.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out These are what sunchokes look like above ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/2cd6ef20-6fb7-40e7-b224-b726081aba08/478962.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Cannas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636390582423-EI3DJ6EZUA36DYY9ZQY9/unsplash-image-RoGdv1kk5XM.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Turmeric! Tamanna/Rumee/Getty That isn’t a turmeric flower, though. Turmeric flowers are pinker and taller. I’ve only personally seen them in pictures, though, because all I get from my pot of turmeric is showy, beautiful foliage plus turmeric to eat! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636390473571-4I7D7PH92WSPS0HWNJ7W/unsplash-image-bBiuSdck8tU.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Ren Ran/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/6933f300-f204-4bac-8983-7a46cecd71d0/Pumpkin-on-a-stick-600x400.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out This plant, called pumpkin-on-a-stick, is actually an eggplant. This is considered an ornamental plant, so enjoy your undercover eggplants! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1636554912223-66TCX96W6E0MCC0Z4HC0/unsplash-image-M_xIaxQE3Ms.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out Julia Zolotova/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/93a4c3b3-31ec-4ad3-8f0d-c62b95ccd085/RED-ORACH-scaled.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Backyard Gardening for Sustenance - Make it stand out In the end, I decided y’all needed to see orach. It’s another amaranth, so all parts edible. Tell me your neighbors aren’t going to think this is the prettiest, most interesting plant they’ve seen in ages! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/jt62pp7h39fr39xkp3lb6xnzttrzmc monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/retro-baking-devils-food-cake monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634673065801-0QWE85Z5PFS7HCVPCA23/processed_20211010_191037.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Retro Baking: Devil's Food Cake I made a smaller batch of buttercream than you ordinarily would expect for the cake, mainly so I wouldn’t have to frost the sides. I soooo dislike frosting the sides of cakes! It was much easier when I had a turning cake stand, but I do not and I don’t have room for another. Unfrosted sides tend to be my go-to as a result. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634673039657-XAGFN8BG0GL9P364GAEY/processed_20211009_154333.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Retro Baking: Devil's Food Cake Lookin’ good! If your cakes wind up with a center bulge after they’ve cooled, you can just cut them off and make cake pops from those bits so the cake will sit flat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634673017064-CWBTZBAMJLHTAOW1XW95/processed_20211009_162218.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Retro Baking: Devil's Food Cake Oops! If you didn’t know, you can glue cakes back together with your buttercream or other frosting. I kinda sorta glued it back once the cakes had cooled, but I didn’t put a ton of effort into it because I already knew no one cared. Also, do you see how overly floured my cake pans were? You’ll do better, I’m sure. Either way, give those cakes about 10 minutes to cool in the pan, then get them out. If you are in a hurry and have to put your hot cakes in the fridge or freezer to cool, for real don’t leave them in the pan. It’s always harder/impossible to get cake out of a cold pan in one piece, whether fridge/freezer is involved or not, so the ideal way to prevent what you see happened here is to not go over 5-10 minutes of resting in the pan. While these are cooling, make your buttercream or other preferred frosting. Once the cakes are cooled, frost as desired, then eat! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/caramelized-yogurt monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635332872495-G66LQV32L1FABJN26D8Y/9EyIda97TRmvzZVa0Nyy_IMG_0498.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt - Make it stand out This is darker than CT will eat it, because she really does prefer to maintain some tartness in her yogurts. If you’re one of the people who feels that even the sweetest yogurt is a bit too tart, try a small (like, half a cup) batch cooked down to this. You might really enjoy it! Otherwise? Go lighter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635335844120-0VCDJDPIR46BQQGLKT53/processed_20211026_203729.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt Once it’s dropped down and you can see that the color has begun to shift, go on ahead and remove the film on the top. Or cook it longer, as you prefer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635335870310-27ID8SQC52R4WSNYIJB9/processed_20211026_203858.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt This is the color once I removed the film. You can see it’s still mostly white, but not that more intense white color fresh milk has. Again, this is my kid’s sweet spot, and she’s the primary consumer of yogurt in our home. Well, yogurt as yogurt. I cook and bake all the time with yogurt, but Ross and I don’t tend to eat yogurt as its own food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1635615744741-5R8JHUSPLPAF56YQ77HV/processed_20211030_124140.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Caramelized Yogurt - Make it stand out Back when I could still handle the texture of yogurt, I used to add honey drizzle and berries. This looked so good I tried it, but nope. Still not good with yogurt as its own food! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/s8typ9ndhlmwb8myaty26tr6b48z5w monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412579878-R7RLXE6SJPUNZY8CQ2TB/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/using-up-leftovers-french-toast monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634672850898-Y4EYL50B1H618N7CGTTJ/processed_20211011_204002.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: French Toast - Make it stand out You can totally tell these are not fresh, can’t you? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634672908395-2ZQJY24HG27HVVGHCSDS/processed_20211009_123944.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: French Toast Marzipan photobomb!No, seriously don’t put marzipan in your french toast. If you want almond flavor, use extract. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634672934841-PFUUQ5MTDXM56QD3G2NJ/processed_20211009_171438.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: French Toast When I say let it soak in, I mean it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634672956478-YD4BBNXT6VTI2D6DYHEA/processed_20211009_170709.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: French Toast https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-make-vegetable-ferments-lhbay-8gwjs monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1582843171312-P0AVL2QKMM6ATZ5K6595/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments There is nothing about kimchi that doesn’t make me happy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583361260968-YEQ67ETVRFBZLLWURGEL/DogsGrays.0.0.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Are you really going to tell me that this dog doesn’t look amazing? Only think that could make it better is if the kraut were fermented instead of pickled! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583421820004-O5ZSJXVECOPVMBIGI0PQ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This right here is “the start of a beautiful friendship” between you and some half or full sours! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424186439-WI9BSWOTIONZUS355D4G/Brine-Chart-for-Making-Pickles.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This one is nice because it also gives you volumetric. If you’re doing chile pastes or olives, you’ll double the 5% amounts to help prevent mold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424236279-8LN41VOSWQ59BLBDB0T9/brine+chart.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments I like this chart the best, though, because it gives you some guidance on which vegetables go with which brine percentages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424502268-MCK3RJVHMO2QM4RDX94N/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Olives! This is, hands down, my favorite fruit. I eat olives nearly every day, most of which are home cured. My bags of olives tend to come with a lot of leaves, so I save those for my herbalist practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583425116016-F7BYYS8FCUBH5C25CAE7/half+sours.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This is a super simple recipe for half sours https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/8z9pw3s00e2hjfs2u1dwk285o3a7b9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie: Vegetable Rennet Edition! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gluten-free-crab-cakes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1634069770043-40UWPXFF8XOMRUPWDVL8/processed_20211006_192104.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - $2 Meals: Lemon Risotto If you have some parsley laying around, it looks nice and adds a bit of “green” flavor to the porridge. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-make-a-scoby-hotel-kz2pz monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1562904441118-EJ44R2FRY4MC24IAOEBV/IMG_6421.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How To Make A SCOBY Hotel - How To Make SCOBY Hotel https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/9rmy6j7hcghmcf3665dhjeyebkk3ya monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/1-meals-bacon-and-tomato-breakfast-fried-rice monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1633528874888-IPB342S61GSYLTP4FQVG/processed_20211003_110215.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - $1 Meals: Bacon and Tomato Breakfast Fried Rice - Make it stand out Thought y'all might like to see how it looks amidst all the babble. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/lets-talk-scobys-4ebg2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598281562344-4BHR1QHBHHTI1YZZ9CSV/processed_20200824_100456.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Let's Talk About SCOBYs This is my jun SCOBY hotel. There was 1 SCOBY in it when I sealed it. The jar obviously didn’t seal properly, or it would not have filled up with them. I did not notice this until the deed was done, so to speak. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/68xkb2yzdwm799rhsd7rk9hfaez85h monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/bavarian-sourdough-starter-yeasted-ale monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1633196812978-VFX40P32YGRIJ8GMEOC7/442ae154ac2aafecbda004338e88e739.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale - Make it stand out Legit, this is the face most homebrewers make when I explain how I brew. It’s probably the same face y’all are already making if you brew, and that face will somehow magnify in intensity as you read on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1633198604169-2X96256I8H9IOYLVRVI1/Screenshot+2021-10-02+at+1.16.02+PM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale - Make it stand out This is an example of bilge water. This is also one of the cleaner examples I’ve seen pictures of. This is also sometimes what post-hurricane water looks like. I imagine you don’t want to drink this anymore than I do!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713494254-1PZY9JCKAJK3318VELYZ/processed_20210812_113732.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale This time was dock, bran, and mint. I was feeling pretty lazy. Let that boil for a couple of hours. It’ll be fine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713531891-5VYYOBZFFKM9FJ6FADKU/processed_20210812_114827.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale This is what it looks like after it’s done. Sometimes it’s darker, and that’s usually because I use a lot more seed when I’m not randomly brewing without adequate supplies or the will to procure them. At this point, pull out your strainer bag and use stout, leathery hands or a set of tongs to squeeze out as much of the liquid from the bag as you can. Or don’t; it’s up to you. Usually I do, at least a bit. I understand that some people don’t do that basically ever, but I’m more hit-or-miss. In this instance, I gave the bag a couple good squeezes, shrugged, and tossed it in the sink to clean up when I was done with the rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713564068-A7VKU8JSZI0OBWMC7FV5/processed_20210814_160709.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale This guy got really jazzy on his litre of syrup. I spent the first 3 weeks thinking that it was going to overflow onto the plate because it was like this or sometimes more vigorous that entire time. Normally they don’t stay jazzy quite so long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713617922-SQBAPT8PGJF7IS6046IC/processed_20210913_122158.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale This is around 5-6 weeks into the process. For me this really never takes this long. I normally let them go a week, two max, because that’s all the need to get still. Gonna be a strong one! All that stuff on the bottom is the sourdough starter and the bits of bran and dock fibre left in the brew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1632002377500-NYVS4JYT6JH9Q22G6XU7/processed_20210918_165725.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale Here are my 5 bottles (4 solid bottles, one partial bottle with lots of sediment still present). One of them wasn’t full. These turned out so pretty!! And yes, they were strong. Ross doesn’t drink a ton, but he’s a giant and can hold his alcohol well. He ended up deciding to mix smaller amounts of this with regular beer, because he said a full bottle of this made him a bit loopy and that, understandably, made him uncomfortable. If that is also not the effect you’re looking for, don’t use so much sugar. 1-2 cups is fine. You can condition these in the pantry for however long you want. Conditioning means you just leave it there to sit and think about who it wants to be until you’re ready to drink it. You can also drink them immediately. It’s your call! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1632002404512-6W246ZUG8EHXN6HUTDGC/processed_1632002388486.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bavarian Sourdough Starter-Yeasted Ale I don’t remember what these last bits are called in modernity, but they used to be called emptins. That’s what I call them. I use these to make bread with, and in this case there was a lot so I made 2 loaves for crouton-making. Happy brewing! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures-75cgh-5k8al-w8a7z-xygbb-ewg7z monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618340391245-FURG6Y5W9MA7TANLTPL7/processed_20210413_135533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures As you can see, I reorganized this section of the freezer! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/rajn68gcc3y7kgc37dmrpaemdgyjpt monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/copy-cat-orange-julius monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1631713412849-1N8UMECCFLAEE6JIEA9F/processed_20210913_093626.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Copy Cat Orange Julius https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/thermophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-f7n7t-9p4ts-d7cjf-8mgl7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006767075-69M8TH4YEQHTHXQ9R5DE/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Thermophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Thermophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/wt53ahzwjc4t6wf3c4l9z2sy47gcac monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/retro-baking-jell-o-cookies monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1630444873838-9KRIF18TW8TDYLLVCYJ2/processed_20210830_111153.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Retro Baking: Jell-O Cookies These are about 3 minutes overbaked, because I forgot what the timer was for and didn’t smell them over the vinegar I was cleaning with. There shouldn’t really be browning on the top. These are the green ones, which you can barely tell because they’re overbaked even though they were still soft and cloudy in the mouth. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mesophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-m5bd8-wlbbg-r3d3h-xmcyw monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006026300-RZJFFI9ZYBJRKTPXWYSV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mesophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Mesophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ggxwty6r8hjy2cdaalkdb6cbt833s9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermented-hot-sauces monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629912367074-PFEN88RH112RQXHXR394/processed_20210825_112545.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermented Hot Sauces! As of when I was writing this (25 August, as I like to stay ahead in my posting schedule so I have more time to develop ideas), the left and middle jar were put together on 30 July, and the right jar was 1 August. So this is 25-27 days into fermentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629911938011-V9JDPS5D5PM718ND7892/how-to-preserve-herbs-in-oil-00.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermented Hot Sauces! - Make it stand out Both of these pictures come from The Pioneer Woman’s tutorial on freezing fresh herbs in olive oil. It’s a really comprehensive tutorial, for those of you who’ve never done this before, and it’s as entertaining as all her other writing is! Because these two pictures are from the same post and this picture occupies substantially less space in the post, I’m only captioning this photo to give credit for both pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629911980722-3UVVFLHP9ISU79ZTP3AM/how-to-preserve-herbs-in-oil-01.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermented Hot Sauces! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629912378459-86W4OSLDVPWB50SENDOG/processed_20210825_112712.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermented Hot Sauces! This is how much hot sauce I have left. I’m certain I can’t ration this long enough for any of my new jars to be ready, which makes me a sad panda. I might actually have to buy hot sauce to get me through until one of them is ready! Spoiler alert: it’ll be the left jar that’s ready first, because I’m going to pull it early. When I run out, and how I feel about buying stopgap sauce, will determine how young that one is when I start eating it. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/more-runny-activation-batches-65t8d-zkhsm-zmggj monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603728046427-8HYJWLCBDT7WC8LULM01/4695213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Runny Yogurt Activation Batches https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/khdx98gnkn95t3wtw2a6p45s9hzd42 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/brined-fresh-ham monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399580331-8XCTP2KQQ8CG72CO5RI8/processed_20210716_083900.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham There’s a large handful of brown sugar that you can’t see in this picture. My large handful is roughly 1/3 cup in volume. You should adjust this to your preferred level of sweetness in a ham. What all is in here is 4 stalks of celery, including the leaves (this replaces pink salt, but you can skip it if desired), 1 head of garlic, cut in half, about a tablespoon of wild foraged older horseweed leaves (you should use oregano, because that’s what it tastes like if you’re using older leaves), about a tablespoon of white pepper, tablespoon of coriander seed, roughly 1/4 teaspoon of both brown and yellow mustard seeds, 2 whole cloves, 10 allspice berries, 3 cardamom pods, a 1” shaving of cinnamon bark, 2 dried limes (substitute: fresh lime or lemon juice, and/or sumac. It’s not going to be the same, but it’ll give you those acidic notes these provide), 4 dried chile arboles, and 7 bay leaves (if you’re using California bay, 3-4). Unless it could be directly counted (and the celery), these quantities are approximate. I didn’t measure, but I took a picture so we could guesstimate and so I could share this with y’all. All of this gets added to whatever container your brine is going in. When you make your brine, boil the water, add the salt, then let it cool to room temp before pouring it over your pork and brine seasonings. I want to say I needed 2-3 litres of brine for this, but don’t quote me on that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399689106-66A2DODT0VIASYFFVM47/processed_20210716_093213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Everything is in there. When you do this, you want extra brine to put in a zip lock bag to weigh it down. You can also use weights, of course, but if you don’t have big enough weights for something this size, a bag of brine keeps most of the spices and such submerged, without risk of diluting your brine if the bag breaks. Check daily to see if you need to skim any scum or remove some floating bits. Your ham will live in your container, in the fridge, for 3-8 days. I did 8. I think 6 would’ve been better for our tastes, as this was a bit saltier than any of the kids who ate this enjoyed. CT said the flavor was amazing but it was too salty. All the adults agreed it could’ve done with less time in the brine, but that it wasn’t salty enough to not eat it. If that happens to you where you’ve overdone it, you can soak your ham in fresh water to extract some of that salt. I wouldn’t do more than 12 hours of soaking before you smoke and/or bake your ham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399662272-V50QS25PCF6P989ESQH9/processed_20210716_092407.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Here’s what the meat looks like an hour or so after I put it all together. I had been struggling to remember what kind of salt I used, but looking at this color tells me it was the Hawaiian salt I was gifted by my friend Sachie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399621598-B5Z17OQHDM6H1VV9GCVL/processed_20210716_092400.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Day 3, bag removed so you can see what’s happening. A lot if happening! I had wondered if it’d look this vigorous after only 3 days in the fridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629471944390-5QV1FQNZYN2DHY7NJMEX/216551406_179168014241240_4211159904997147650_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Not the greatest picture, but also Day 3. You can see a lot of stuff has sunken to the bottom, and there’s a noticeable color shift in the meat. Things are HAPPENING! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629471963279-Q9XBAAA5TQY8N1D4JPQS/228738986_187011596790215_2844937508256604179_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham - Make it stand out This picture didn’t stretch well and is way too small, but it’s the ham after I pulled it from the brine. The ham was pulled on day 8, and it sat I believe 5 more days in the fridge in its bag. The reason the cloth looks weird is because it’s covering the foil covered bone that didn’t fit in the gallon bag. My fridge is tiny, y’all. I really needed that container out. You do what you’ve gotta do, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399734689-A6BVPCSEMDI1GBH8KED6/processed_20210731_130001.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Ham out of the fridge, at room temp, going into the smoker. You can probably see that Ross snaked the coals around the outside of the smoker so as to be able to smoke for as long as needed. That flesh looks beautiful, though. We used an Old Smokey that Ross’ bff Stephen gifted us, and that he had installed a thermometer on. The biggest challenge he had smoking it was that the smoker really did want to be hotter than he wanted it to be, and to hold that heat, so he had to do a bit more work keeping the temps down and the smoke in. Please excuse the mess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399769137-5RA836UB5AD2WSJGMG2L/processed_20210731_153412.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham 1-2 hours into the smoking process, after it was turned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399794339-Q7Q8V3TBZSIJJ44OBNRO/processed_20210731_183209.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Side one. I believe this smoked for 6-8 hours total. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399819312-WUW8317YBIWAPE5IOFPF/processed_20210731_183329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Side 2. The smoker continued on for a total of 14 hours, so just short of what I’d need for a brisket. Space for more coals in that snake, though, so definitely can use an Old Smokey for actual proper smoking of this type and the brisket type. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629399844793-QCVHRACF7181E3EVZNYZ/processed_20210731_183737.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brined Fresh Ham Yes. This is the ham once it was opened up. It was soooo delicious! S’mores were for dessert, since the smoker was still working and didn’t care if it got converted to that use. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/yogurt-activation-woes-and-how-to-stop-having-them monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1628089426742-A8XVSK4Q5VO28EFO9BVL/The-More-You-Know-340x226.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt Activation Woes, and How to Stop Having Them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/a23elnhk2e49pw5xtp83trc724apz7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mushroom-and-chile-pizza-topping monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629373302039-MIWCKQWMC57G9IC9VQ6X/209240189_165786375579404_7385289496026797256_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mushroom and Chile Pizza Topping - Make it stand out Y’all. It was so good. Every time I make this, it was so good! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629372092803-1SNZDBO710WHUHWF2HRP/9b3be367-8df3-44a5-b6fd-241266ea95a5_1.82de12657d071622c78f775a0212c6fe.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mushroom and Chile Pizza Topping - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629373173598-QGYR55U3HQP49O64WD8S/208374256_165786322246076_3003314284852028052_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mushroom and Chile Pizza Topping - Make it stand out I had just stirred this, as you can see, and hadn’t yet made it a more even layer in the pan, but you should be able to see some searing on most of your pieces (especially the mushrooms). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1629373324752-8K8DP3DUNMM75VGCZBIW/209419414_165786415579400_2829190207620236870_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mushroom and Chile Pizza Topping - Make it stand out CT wanted y’all to see that she had rolled out her pizza and also put the toppings on. She says, I’m sure correctly, that y’all care more about knowing she’s in the kitchen doing things than whether the pizza is the same topping I’m posting about. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes-fgde9-xkt66-pphtt-eex7g monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This globe is in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Child Tester never can get enough of this one! The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your annual temperatures will be. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your annual temperatures will be. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/np4377225z3r4jndmf7wfbeec48c2b monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/using-up-leftovers-sweet-potato-and-avocado-spring-rolls monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1621353275914-5FGXSLGGAACKIXZBZ5L2/L1020772.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: Sweet Potato and Avocado Spring Rolls - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-i-make-baking-choices-6mxl5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580918900135-5WHS52VTOPSG556J5LD7/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Make Baking Choices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580924926538-4GK94KOEOL25R4Z7XBX7/great+british+bakeoff.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Make Baking Choices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580921445908-LFNSUOXFCKCW5GZTGGG5/WHO+EVEN+ARE+YOU.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Make Baking Choices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580921971722-ZHNS8PSC2YPMGZ2EUA0W/what+are+you+thinking.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Make Baking Choices This is what y’all and Sabrina would look like if I baked for y’all like I bake for not-y’all! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580922190173-5FJE7IPU0UKFY3ZAC5Z5/ill+do+it+myself.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Make Baking Choices Someone come do it for me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580923665471-MFFTJQYAWQOLE43PW030/justin+wilson.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Make Baking Choices Childhood life goals realized! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580924592983-E5P82ZSQPJ94HJGBEHJK/get+your+hands+dirty.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I Make Baking Choices Get your hands dirty. Also, read this article. It’s crazy interesting! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/z9m2abxnxystxfmh6bfakfpkmnbnkg monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/three-bean-and-beef-jerky-stew monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1621348038315-JMBJORZY3P307PFHPWX6/L1020773.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Bean and Beef Jerky Stew - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/milk-kefir-troubleshooting-4mm6m monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1557709476544-6NRKZW4DKH6S7CV442T5/IMG_5373.PNG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Milk Kefir Keeps Separating? Far Left: Whey bubbles beginning to form on the bottom. Middle: Partial separation, Whey bubbles throughout. Far Right: Full separation, Curds have completely separated from the whey. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/l7ychek3hfjljwlna6ylya4pw37p9w monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gluten-free-rye-bread-a2f58 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585167123380-Z0E4VUDRBB9NH579B3KK/processed_20200323_111740.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread Sorry for the quality of the pics, y’all. It was that or no pics at all because family was going in right then! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585108587198-0VLZHKVCQW4WTJKITS5F/OH+HELL+NO.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread I love this woman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585172154366-I4P01MRMKCA0I7YBJ876/Resized_20200323_142134.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread More cheese crumbled than bread. I ate this one over the board so y’all could see for yourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585167095380-6I5HJZANZPVTQ2YWRHH4/Resized_20200323_111257.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cold-start-instant-pot-bdgtl-rb6h7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/m6yefpnj3jprr64np43nw3zrh9jlrr monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gluten-free-sourdough-loaf-7wljh monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1563074591263-BUJZMJS492JC9PZMQW9Q/IMG_6409.PNG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Loaf https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/yogurt-cooler-and-oven-method-67z2g monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725247024-8EZ8E2PLK1XO08K48DYA/processed_20201126_160131.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Like this. I do not babysit milk, so this has a skin on it due to not stirring. No matter. We aren’t ready to remove that. You can stop it around here if you like, but I tend to leave it sometimes for several hours to caramelize. This produces a naturally sweeter yogurt with caramel-y notes because it concentrates the sugars in the milk. Child Tester is a great lover of this method. I believe in Russia, milk is baked until caramelized and then cultured with kefir. I can’t remember the name of this, sadly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725269891-YJG8X1ASON26I3393ZI4/processed_20201126_172039.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method I normally go darker, but here we are anyway! Had to move on with me day. This yogurt has been cooled. I cooled it until my finger felt wet when I stuck it in the milk. If I’m feeling frisky, I’ll go a bit longer. Sometimes I mess up and let it cool too much. I freely admit I stick it in the microwave in 30 second bursts, until it feels right after the milk has been stirred, when this happens. Go on ahead and remove the skin and then add your culture. If Linus the Cat is around when I pull the skin, he’s welcome to it. Otherwise I toss it. I should toss it in the garden next time; it can go with the SCOBYs! Not sure why I didn’t think of that before! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725301355-VT24NR6FBHYGYGZC2PYN/processed_20201126_172431.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Blanket for the bottom of the cooler. This is technically a tablecloth that got badly stained during hurricane Ike and I haven’t dyed it to cover that up yet. One day. Until then, it cradles the yogurt! Settle your crock in there so it’s as level as you can get it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725321661-RHO3K8XFDH909VVGGQPR/processed_20201126_172500.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method This is actually a rug, but same-same. Put it on top and tuck the ends. Be careful not to spill your crock! But definitely make sure your crock is snug in its bed. Don’t stress out on filling the cooler with padding. In a perfect world, it’d be full to maximize insulation potential, but yogurt is flexible about this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725341342-U66THNPZZPRF7DA3TEQ8/processed_20201126_172757.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Close cooler, then wait. If your yogurt is established, you can technically do this in as little as 12 hours. Your yogurt will be thinner, though. You also can go up to 72. Your yogurt will be very sour in these instances. I generally shoot for 24 but frequently wind up going 48. Do not open up the cooler to check on it! You can do this maybe once, but the yogurt is never as good when it happens. Assume that when you open the cooler, you’re removing the yogurt. Because that’s what you should be doing. I think Ross jacked this cooler from his parents, though I’d need to verify that. I am certain they don’t want it back, though, because the thing really does smell like yogurt inside. It takes a… uh… special kind of non-fermenter to be okay with that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725360926-QZ1F1SZ68J9C1QPM0IH0/processed_20201129_125948.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Yogurt! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/b5yg8d5p6tklxxen93pnzmkh34y67n monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/soft-sourdough-sandwich-loaf-8a4ny monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1578861218661-2IHBROJ87DVZCQMSEL1J/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Soft Sourdough Sandwich Loaf https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-take-a-break-from-yogurt-f882a-n5nkx monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1559773308434-TUQG5I7MK6YGCF8LCRKA/IMG_E5650.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to take a break from yogurt - How to take a break from yogurt https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dpj3a74mfas448cwkdlbgrgxleech6 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/a-selection-of-kraut-recipes-hymdb monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581121285853-G9G9MMUZ2NXMQZ0KWFIV/3+krauts.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581120930464-H4NXUPPL5NLKHRNK7L55/PURPLE.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes It’s pretty, right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581120960258-Y2XGR4POC6SDI9FTI4BI/SLAW.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes This is my favorite. You can see I forgot the caraway this time. Ah well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581120993589-22YU3KTFTSIBWS2SPQ7G/UKHA.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes Occasionally we eat this raw, but this one is mostly for cooking. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-make-apple-cider-vinegar-at-home-clz3r monthly 0.5 2024-09-02 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/5fbc9xw8hj5plrr46bdmff2yadypsg monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/khorasan-sourdough-loaf-dtwg9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580854699073-2KJQYHSX6ZSFEL0T0S4W/cut+loaf.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Desem Khorasan Wheat Sourdough Boule This loaf didn’t stand a chance against my family https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sourdough-factoids monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1625227015681-RU6U9IGC09B1ISJ4AKF5/unsplash-image-h2CPeqTzaaY.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Factoids - Make it stand out Artur Rutkowski/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1625227418867-3S83SO6N94G62SM3X3V2/unsplash-image-WBYksGoFPb8.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Factoids - Make it stand out Conor Brown/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1625227690748-CEBLWM6PP4OK2DGJ5TP6/unsplash-image-AYLSwAtdb90.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Factoids - Make it stand out Adam Bartoszewicz/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1625227745804-2Z0WY5ZFBLL4ZKEC1SES/unsplash-image-j3DEnzcHzHQ.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Factoids - Make it stand out Vicky Ng/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1625227847427-744E1FUF49PP62LB117W/unsplash-image-vEtYK2wkOt0.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Factoids - Make it stand out Tommaso Urli/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1625228880481-EXWK5D549Z5PHD94HQZC/unsplash-image-bIyRC9uuPt0.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Factoids - Make it stand out Dan Burton/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1625228951202-C1YRTXAJLK4YWFISK8AQ/unsplash-image-v-NTfoHSg0E.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Factoids - Make it stand out Vicky Ng/Getty https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/9zdk5ybrfscc6ygl5pm59cnhtfmy6h monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/einkorn-sourdough-loaf-fkk42 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580931039165-LXMMPSXAHB2DY84WWM9S/finished+loaf.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Einkorn Sourdough Loaf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580932421170-I73E32M4BCT84CITLAL7/shaped+loaf.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Einkorn Sourdough Loaf As you can see, lazy-style batard-ish. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/kombucha-jun-and-vinegar monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1624496672723-UIXGRQMC1FPRDSHGNIEW/unsplash-image-TcNG1talu3s.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kombucha, Jun, and Vinegar - Make it stand out Megumi Nachev/Getty https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/j8g5tzdzmxy976npzykmya5ffjwcnw monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/queso monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618334028516-T7U7QUUQF91RY06JNFTV/L1020743.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Queso: Mag Mud Knock Off Edition https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures-75cgh-5k8al-w8a7z-xygbb monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618340391245-FURG6Y5W9MA7TANLTPL7/processed_20210413_135533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures As you can see, I reorganized this section of the freezer! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/zkejgdrrp7zzae3mdh3mpd2t3ey3r2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pita-nachos monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618327516233-8HEOYQ09JLSU5XZYVS3J/L1020714.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: Pita Nachos https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/thermophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-f7n7t-9p4ts-d7cjf monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006767075-69M8TH4YEQHTHXQ9R5DE/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Thermophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Thermophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cdhp6thynern7f6kd69by7bl9b8lb9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412609447-D31GYP59WJZWUGTXADR4/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/rice-vermicelli-lo-mein monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618325958419-5CD8KMVUGLZXVOXNBAXV/L1020997.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Rice Vermicelli Lo Mein As you can see, this is life-sustaining on research heavy days! Y’all would be surprised by how much research I do to write for y’all! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mesophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-m5bd8-wlbbg-r3d3h monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006026300-RZJFFI9ZYBJRKTPXWYSV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mesophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Mesophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/lrbc7zgebhlwney35j2an9ws7ymasc monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618412579878-R7RLXE6SJPUNZY8CQ2TB/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/spelt-salad monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1618324135628-3CKDT170VEXR52EQWE29/L1020778.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Spelt Salad https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/more-runny-activation-batches-65t8d-zkhsm monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603728046427-8HYJWLCBDT7WC8LULM01/4695213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Runny Yogurt Activation Batches https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/xemnwjln2k5e9zgd2h622sky9hccs9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/using-up-leftovers-cantaloupe-cupcakes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1616764780605-7P6ZMBS044KZD5HFI21T/cupcakes.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Using Up Leftovers: Cantaloupe Cupcakes I am not very good with this pastry tip, but I’m trying to be! Practice is good, even though it never really makes perfect. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes-fgde9-xkt66-pphtt monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This globe is in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Child Tester never can get enough of this one! The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your annual temperatures will be. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your annual temperatures will be. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/e5998988st5yddbsem6dayw343gcm9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1614886474700-6XEFN4Y8C0RVYEUYKHO9/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sarahs-onion-soup monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1616981069706-RIOXG2KPRKETIFUA9BSR/processed_20210326_174610.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sarah's Onion Soup I usually like to cut mine up if I’m not camping, because then it’s a little less trouble to eat. I forgot to take a picture of that, though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1616981035226-7I3ILL39P9S73JPYPEZN/processed_20210326_174332.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sarah's Onion Soup See? All snug in their beds… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1616981054728-85NEM8ZE02Q3UWWHP6BO/processed_20210326_174355.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sarah's Onion Soup I leave it like this if I’m camping. I use a bowl like above if I’m not. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/types-of-fermentation-64hh6 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604349893245-N4OQRJFMAPZGIDR1VKMZ/processed_20180610_231319.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This is an old picture, but this loaf of bread was risen by the emptins of a small beer I’d made, which used sourdough starter as its yeast source. Look how tall it is! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604328183458-WYKM6LTBH34Z41BQP5VK/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation Lactic acid fermentation at its most famous - kraut! The Matter of Food/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604341830209-CDBGC6IXWIY06E8HUC9Z/lactic+acid+chart.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This will better explain the process to those of you interested in the science. I was really stressed out over this image, because I lost the source. It took me hours to track it down again so I could remove the dagger from my academic heart!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604342204866-HKPNHR8QV5LHTFCVNOMD/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation We’re obviously moving onto the boozy portion of our little journey now. 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This is insanely embarrassing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604352135272-NPKIOG2VHQQADNU58UY0/Screenshot+2020-11-02+at+3.22.00+PM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This chart is awesome and very informative! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/3ayc6wwxr5cg9edwc4g4krbta5lb35 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1614886474700-6XEFN4Y8C0RVYEUYKHO9/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/shredded-pumpkin-muffins monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1616612412991-9YUAT6C75DJNTQZ78OM7/processed_20210324_132429.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Shredded Pumpkin Muffins Sorry, y’all. CT had been in these before I took a picture, because I had no intention of posting this at all until she said I had to! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/food-bank-skills monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617892682051-G9HRF06N0EFNQOX06DHY/Screenshot+2021-04-08+at+9.37.22+AM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Food Bank Skills That’s everything! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617972237249-FE8YAYCQ5076TDY6IMLD/pack-saf-instant-500-271x3003.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Food Bank Skills This is the yeast I usually buy. I keep it in my freezer so it doesn’t expire, though usually I also have a small jar on the shelf. I used to buy it at a specialty store, but now it’s sold at most grocers here in Houston. Because I routinely float between sourdough and commercial yeast breads, with a lot of quick breads tossed in the mix, a pound of yeast lasts me years. I choose my leaven in accordance with how much time I’ve got to deal with the particulars of bread baking. If I have less than 2 hours to bake, I’m all about the baking powder. 4? Commercial is great. Longer? Enter the SD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617976933125-IRULA6QOPL9QOG44B9RP/unsplash-image-uAm1CZMdPCw.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Food Bank Skills I chose this pic for breakfasts because it has toad in the hole in it. I like that those little tomato slices look roasted, but the main thing here is than an egg plus a piece of bread is a yummy and cheap breakfast, in addition to being nutritionally sound (especially with those couple of veggies on the plate!). Eiliv/Sonas Aceron/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617977905416-JL0G01HE1673NAYUL80S/unsplash-image-NrZfX7NSSQw.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Food Bank Skills This is the most plebeian lunch I could find a picture of in Getty. I’m not gonna pretend I understand why that is, but it is what it is. That said, it looks pretty yummy with what I think is some kind of bean paste (perhaps hummus, perhaps another bean), fresh fruit (avocado/tomato) and veggies (radish/onion), and a sauce I’m deeply uncertain about. I am fussy about sauces, but I’m sure whatever this is is also tasty. This is not a particularly cheap meal, but it could be refashioned into one with less costly types of tomatoes and maybe only avocado if it’s on sale. I personally would like to eat that with smoked herring and perhaps instead on rye, but that’s just me. cleo stracuzza/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617979955675-NM7MWJLANY1VQ4K8680Z/unsplash-image-35aBPjqsjX4.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Food Bank Skills Dhivya Subramamanian/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617980766491-V2D4KPGVDZPA5ENCZ0Q6/1384540893720.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Food Bank Skills Chicken Pot Pie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617981841743-VMSHJT9WY73U4C9SX759/unsplash-image-_iGGEXqY7fc.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Food Bank Skills Note to self: never, ever, ever again search for “saran wrap” on Getty. Wow y’all don’t want to know what all was in there for that search term! I will never again try to select a photo solely for “wrapping up” sections. Y’all don’t want to see what got wrapped up in there! 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Tyler Nix/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676614040-DA7GCQ24CCO1B7QVR5YJ/image0.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Over-fermented Ferments: What do I do with these?! I can’t figure out if this is my picture, Sabrina’s, or one of y’all’s. Please tell me if you do know! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617807502549-SY47EQKS1CW2PCQSICIP/unsplash-image-W7g-J_kYj_k.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Over-fermented Ferments: What do I do with these?! I really like that jar. Anshu A/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617808040188-8EYH50ETIJKLE6LCNTYI/unsplash-image-kzXKQ3KhqDo.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Over-fermented Ferments: What do I do with these?! Aleks Marinkovic/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617808793477-1241HP38XKH6Y9GVWCJS/unsplash-image--gOUx23DNks.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Over-fermented Ferments: What do I do with these?! 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I’ve been the one baking lately and I haven’t taken many pictures. Nancy Hann/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617629760726-8KAUQDS5QQV7Z71Y1DQ3/m_5ffe73fe4fd23ab48868fe0d.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - The Essence of Bread Like this one, but ours had a different design. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ekegp8g46thrxbza72g8ca8b2dmyf6 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/spinach-artichoke-pizza monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1616599619657-T20ZLCH4A8KOMFWYK8PT/pizza.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Spinach-Artichoke Pizza Some days on the photography front are substantially more fail than I’d like them to be. Sorry about that, y’all. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/amasi-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607364643994-55Q6F1S6I8LA2TZVGY8Z/ARCA_BOVINA_NGUNI.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Amasi: An Origin Story Nguni cattle. These are some really cool looking cows! I saw a picture where one had some zebra striping on its chest. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/3ylak8j57pyykwcdsg8l9kta9kxcfe monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ful-medammes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1616598343734-K0M32YDE0TFDDHOPWMJW/L1020819.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ful Medammes https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/invisible-foods monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617120618568-5MYRETLYD7VFOLZSXTMD/unsplash-image-WPrTKRw8KRQ.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - The Problem with Ferments Stop for a moment and think about what really is and isn’t okay for you. That’s what this post is all about! Joshua Hoehne/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1617112336941-JQGPJDCJ8M7ET6FHVT1E/unsplash-image-gO-iULv-qbU.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - The Problem with Ferments I’m not a doctor, and neither is Sabrina. But even if we were doctors, we aren’t y’all’s doctors. Not being a/your doctor and still offering medical opinions is illegal in the States, so we’re really careful to not break those sorts of laws. And that’s before we even get into the ethics of it that would stop us from offering opinions even if it were legal to do so. Medical decisions, including big dietary changes, really should go through your physician before they come to us. You can still dodge the doc and try us first, but we’re gonna punt you back to your physician in the majority of instances. 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Left clockwise: neck, gizzard, heart, liver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594233508436-5OYB6OO1AMP18RFGYIUD/Bird_Gastro_System.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Chicken: There's a Lot of Weird Here This will explain things more easily. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/f96jt728kex3rxg2tdbfeg5zk4xbnb monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/beet-stem-and-potato-quiche monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1615228456643-PLG39GSTZ8GGVR543Z77/L1020339.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Beet Stem and Potato Quiche https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures-75cgh-5k8al-w8a7z monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433131560-O3PMEPUPET8LTGODAHVC/processed_20200525_135245.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Other than the odds and ends on the far right, this is all my dairy, sourdough, and water kefir. Some of these are still being converted over from wet to dry, for reasons that are now clear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dgl6smwxaaspx4rtxs7ls833krm2r3 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/trash-soda-syrups monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1615199097901-HH98KS39E4YPEMA98C81/unsplash-image-FiR9cWVt7Gc.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Trash Soda Syrups This is beer. I am using this picture because it showed up in a search for “soda” and the truth of that made me laugh too hard not to use this pic. 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The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your annual temperatures will be. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your annual temperatures will be. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/bznxgencerg5997egzjjft8btac23t monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/hot-dog-pizza monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611589234581-EIBINP8M6TI3FC1NBEYH/L1020737.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Hot Dog Pizza https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/thermophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-f7n7t-9p4ts monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006767075-69M8TH4YEQHTHXQ9R5DE/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Thermophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Thermophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/d2dwpjzcc7rrtc2ca6ks4ydpz9pg84 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/leblebi monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610635115653-LHTHW7B4FF5IXC3U1RKX/L1020411.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Leblebi https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mesophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-m5bd8-wlbbg monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006026300-RZJFFI9ZYBJRKTPXWYSV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mesophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Mesophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/3mazdbnsrgthcwbh5st5gxg8thtjn4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/almond-and-date-rice-pudding monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610549623756-YAJ5V00PQ52LCX63FCV4/L1020733.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Almond and Date Rice Pudding There's just no way to make rice pudding photogenic, I'm sorry to say. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/more-runny-activation-batches-65t8d monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603728046427-8HYJWLCBDT7WC8LULM01/4695213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Runny Yogurt Activation Batches https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cajd45c6fwpn9ht7bwj2m7sjpklg3s monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/refrigerator-gardiniera monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610465291489-CHCEVM7DOXX8P681AXUT/L1020420.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Refrigerator Gardiniera https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/botched-breads-8week monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586974158117-W9Q0DQUVGX6A8WI231YU/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997438133-LR3EZSAM71W89E3W2144/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997538271-CBQIOS04GWOX4B09N6NL/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997872038-IQQ3OSVTKEM4S1UPWYIZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/omg-texas monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613770607266-S711P1UJR5AJI76C7VKP/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - OMG, Texas Enrique Macias/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613772405038-1NKREWQW6B8GVKJ5HNA7/processed_20210215_165508.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - OMG, Texas These goat chops were seasoned only with salt and pepper. The onions and asparagus got that and olive oil. My goal was to let the flames, which are hard to see in this picture, and the smoke function as the primary spice. This meal was amazing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613773374374-NQ5JDZL45Y7555J0J05V/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - OMG, Texas This kind. I only buy the tall ones, and I prefer the ones that don’t have printed designs because I’m not using them for prayer. These cost about a buck each at the dollar store. I never even got into my Shabbat candles, because these are so long-lasting. 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I also regret that I wrote for an hour and picked this picture during that time, and then I lost all of that writing plus the pictures due to what is turning into a week of technological horrors for me. Getty didn’t show me the name of the photographer when I grabbed it again, so I apologize for not giving proper attribution for this pic and possibly a few more. This is probably less bad than all the emails I lost this week, many of which were important, but I’m not a huge fan of failing to give attribution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612983769531-6S97KC49XG1O3TP2SFX5/Angela-Lansbury-eating-popcorn.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613146496707-U678FEXAPLBXPC0MGAYZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 2 Same lack of attribution issue here, extra apologies. These potato pancakes demonstrate how easily you can include some veggie scraps for increased flavor and nutrition! If yo'u’ve got those, toss ‘em in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613249232319-9HJUEUK97QIQLM7A3KSL/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 2 Thank you, Christine! No attribution on this one, to my increasing shame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613767539818-NW70APEJ9FGTDJU82JOZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 2 What a pretty dinner spread! Stephanie McCabe/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613768123458-IMNR86JBZDGVFA88O5AC/processed_1613768112084.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 2 Rice isn’t in here yet, but will be around the time Ross leaves work today. Child Tester asked me for chicken soup, and she also asked me to use a can so I didn’t have to dig around in the freezer for a package of chicken. I really appreciated that, like a lot. That’s what I did. This is probably around 5-6 quarts of soup in here and I used only the one can. Also a can of broth becau… actually, I don’t know why. We’re on a boil notice and I obviously am going to boil this, so I don’t know why I didn’t use tap water. I had 2 carrots that grew roots, ditto a parsnip, a bunch of dodgy mushrooms, a turnip that grew greens during the storm (those went in there, too), some kraut slaw because no fresh cabbage on hand, olive oil, salt, pepper, about 2 tablespoons of kimchi I found in the back of the fridge that I minced to use as spice, leftover corn from a clam meal from Long John Silver’s right before the storm, and 4 dodgy tomatoes. My sole goal from this soup other than to give CT what she wanted was to use up produce that would’ve already been cooked this week were it not for the storm making me not want to open the fridge. I may of course be forgetting something that’s in here, but this is largely bits and bobs of whatever, a can of chicken, some broth (or water, or beer, or or or), and some rice a half hour before I want to eat. The only spices I used other than the kimchi were salt and pepper. I might add a bay leaf after I save this part of the post. I did add 2 bay leaves. I also forgot that I had put a bunch of roughly chopped garlic cloves in there, but just remembered. Probably 15 or so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1613769264640-Q9BYUKQFZKS0IPDW6TWM/Small-Batch-Funeral-Potatoes-550.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 2 Funeral potatoes! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/jlrl27e794jt7er82xzhd9tlxcefbw monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611676836785-18QC742WEFKL3JF7W95M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mujadarra monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610400205527-1S5EILFWPDIRD1YWL5UT/L1020152.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mujadarra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610400073718-CBPZM0LELLEKIGX1LWII/processed_20210103_170307.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mujadarra Like these. Y’all wish I’d made more of them like I do, huh? https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dodging-appetite-fatigue-part-1 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611849181259-DBT0A8BLN0E5GLF3CPUX/shepherdbook.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1611850913589-H64A9TIL2DPBD7URSD00/andrii-shafetov-dune-harvester.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 This is a Dune reference, for those of you who’re wondering why I’ve just stopped making sense again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612366372325-WBFIEEBWTTGMI2WP7E03/maxresdefault1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Shame is normal, but it’s not what we’re about. We’re about making yums from less. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612193839816-F5F8I2412OI29XXQB03N/Screenshot+2021-02-01+at+9.36.51+AM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Just so we all remember, this screen shot of the video shows everything Christine bought except the 50# of potatoes. I may use another video of hers in a later post, because she’s got one that closely replicates the average food box. The food bank local to her offers these amazing boxes that are really not representative of what most people receive, so I don’t want to use her food bank replication video for a food bank skills article. This is kind of a food bank skills article already, so we’ll see how that all goes later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612202611451-K7GH378W9KTW5CMHXL2F/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Such a pretty bottle of oil! jonathan ocampo/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612367732809-LG4I907K75C8JJERYRAP/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Beth Macdonald/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612367836246-5BBEZNY0OCO3BD7Y8J3P/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Tom Hermands/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612204248411-CSEJL3SX41QIV5OE253E/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Ingredients! 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They probably had one in the paid section, but I don’t like to buy the “premium” pictures even though Sabrina doesn’t mind. My frugal heart balks a lot at that. I made this chili the night before and didn’t bother to heat it before snapping a pic. This chili was really weird. A month or two ago, I got a free pound of vegan “meat” from the grocery store. I’m not sure why it seemed important to HEB that I take $8 of free stuff from them, but I saw no reason to say no to trying this product out free-of-charge. There was an epic battle over this once the “meat” came home, with Ross and CT begging me to throw it away and make them “proper” vegan meals if I just want to make something vegan. As you know, I hate food waste, so since I wasn’t going to throw it away and no one I know wanted it, I had to figure out how to hide it in a meal. I mixed it with 1.5# of regular ground beef. I buy the 70/30 meat, because I want to save the fat as a spice and for cooking in general, so there’re some savings in buying the fattier beef beyond its lower cost so long as you maximize what the higher fat beef is offering. No one noticed, so I view that as a positive in terms of the fake meat quality even though I legitimately cannot ever see myself spending as much money on fake meat as it costs. They ended up finding out the night before this went live that I fed them the fake meat, because I felt guilty for tricking them. They were shocked and appalled that they ate it and didn’t know, and especially Child Tester, but agreed it must be a fairly high quality product because they had no idea it was in a meal and normally do notice any off-book weirdness I serve for dinner. The downside of the fake meat was that this chili really didn’t age properly in the fridge. It was the only variable other than having made it in the Instant Pot (I’m told this isn’t usually an issue with IP chili), so I assume fake meat just doesn’t age well in stews and whatnot. The chili was way too spicy for CT even though I added potatoes in hopes that using up my leftover, roasted chiles wouldn’t be too spicy for her, but Ross and I enjoyed the chili nonetheless. Those roasted chiles are delicious, both by themselves and in the chili! Yes, I also put beans in that chili. I strongly appreciate the reality that beans in chili make chili go a lot further. Again, my frugal heart makes a lot of decisions for me about how I make different foods, but I suppose that’s useful to y’all and so is a good thing in the end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612449619416-UVMXX4KR93KGREUBF4A5/il_794xN.2712134621_fzpc.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Meal planning board! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1612723225781-3QLH3B9RO3QZDOYB1AA1/Coming-Soon.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dodging Appetite Fatigue, Part 1 Stay tuned! 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But no, it’s apple butter! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dry-beans-part-2-what-do-i-make-with-these-kzs8j monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588879681832-QHL07KLSN51QGU08Z6FS/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dry Beans, Part 2: What do I MAKE With These? One can never have too many baskets. Never. Elias Sorey/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589113248099-CDQFWREOFE92Q8CYBMIF/forgetmenot.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dry Beans, Part 2: What do I MAKE With These? These are forget-me-nots, in case you didn’t know there was a flower for them. I haven’t told Child Tester about these, since there’s no real space in the garden for them right now. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/6s4dznybp78dcy6ltpcge59nn4dbz4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606166179323-6SG6XX4PM8BVLFAN9WQI/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/roasted-tomato-sauce monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610391236611-5OH3HZO7S6XDDOEMPCOA/L1020681.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Roasted Tomato Sauce Finished sauce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610391216754-KNC88VFWSK00N5ZFNGHF/L1020680.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Roasted Tomato Sauce Real talk here: the struggle to ensure these don’t get immediately nommed and instead make sauce is real. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dry-beans-how-do-i-cook-these-jsae4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588450157112-ZO53IV3L7JNDSEF5ZJ72/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dry Beans, Part 1: How Do I Cook These?! 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I feel like BBQ is on the menu for my next #takeouttuesday now! Jacob Stone/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588467691116-AYZ9R94UB0WTSX64IT12/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dry Beans, Part 1: How Do I Cook These?! Legit, I often would wonder if she were switched at birth if she didn’t so look like him! But somewhere, there’s got to be a Tuscan she got her bean craze from! 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Not so much when they’re in my home. Phillip Jordan/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610116854174-JJ7EYJZHSBFXR6TMB22W/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Store Shelf-Stable Foods Look at this little cutie! Not so cute when it’s eating your food, though. Ricky Kharawala/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610117290004-HHAPO80462T4B08RT692/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Store Shelf-Stable Foods Please forgive me for the nightmares y’all may have tonight. But you’re welcome for the nightmares you won’t have if you listened to me about pest avoidance. Also sorry for what I’m about to say next. 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Dang Tran/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610551640360-KF1PY9BPRJRZNMWDX4OT/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Special Edition Ask Allie: How to Build a Pantry without Major Budget Adjustments This next bit is really, really important. Jose Aragones/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610551759273-ZGDRVVX8DR8ZFBP9KP68/5f4847a1ba6f7f0268b47310bf49db73.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Special Edition Ask Allie: How to Build a Pantry without Major Budget Adjustments Y’all remember these lines on the TV? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1610552041959-ZJJAYIVLTTR67Q6W5GLH/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Special Edition Ask Allie: How to Build a Pantry without Major Budget Adjustments We need to add staples to build our pantries. Your staples might be different from mine. Pretty sure this isn’t the famous red Swingline, but that’s okay. 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You can mix yours up better, if you’d like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607356828980-AMWZZLGVFXZYKRO0TLR4/processed_20201204_181144.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Blackberry and Apple Crumble Other stuff added! Technically, you should stir this up. We didn’t really feel like it, so we didn’t do it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607356853659-G3IPBRMUXE2C9UV3GOAJ/processed_20201204_181211.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Blackberry and Apple Crumble Not sure what that stuffed fox is doing at the table, but I am guessing moral support? Either way, mix up all the ingredients in your topping. I prefer to do the dry first and then add the wet, but you do what works for you! There’s no right or wrong here: there is only yum on the way! She has such tiny hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607356881635-PPB6HP69XPP8FGMH55PC/processed_20201204_181346.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Blackberry and Apple Crumble Gets a little messier here! Once you’ve mixed up all the topping, time to layer it onto the fruits and such! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607356911359-CGNNFJAPLUBSHJPCWVOA/processed_20201204_184249.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Blackberry and Apple Crumble As such. If you want better or thicker coverage, make a bit extra. Also, I forgot to have her butter the pan. It didn’t stick, so I guess that’s fine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607356937180-YVS78AG5GUKURYV7C34N/processed_20201205_100156.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Blackberry and Apple Crumble Once that bad boy’s been covered, plunk it in the oven and come back in 45 to an hour! Unless you like lava mouth, please let it cool for at least 10 minutes before you get into it. After that? 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You should do the same in case you need those precious juices to cover your lemons! Also, that Leaning Tower of Lemons in the bowl is cracking me up. Those weights are there for krauts I was also working on, since I wanted to put up about 3 gallons of different types to go through until spring or summer. You can use weights on your lemons if you want to, but it’s not required. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fruit-ferments-d6lze monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591024593382-HCUUW8BQSXGMLMEGKRJI/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits Markus Spiske/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591024865684-USFF273U4E68R1VW1W1Z/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits Vivek Doshi/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591029217568-UTSZ5PPBWW15E2YBLCKP/processed_20200601_112711.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits These are honey strawberries. I love that plate. My friend Farah sent it to me. I also love that spoon, which Ross whittled for Child Tester. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/wgt8ehwr9cn83nsf8nghb8zh4xz2lt monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606166179323-6SG6XX4PM8BVLFAN9WQI/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/three-sisters-stuffed-shells monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728352860-O0Y2E22GP3XTHGYA5CXE/processed_20201129_162835.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Your mixture will look something like this. This is what was leftover for freezing for future meals. There are probably 2 meals’ worth of filling in here. Put enough filling in each shell to fill it without overfilling it. This is a great time to pre-heat your oven to 400F/200C/GM6! Please preheat your oven now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728373355-RGVYNBZC0NV9MG5SAO2T/processed_20201129_162828.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells I like them in bread pans if I want to make it clear to the fam that we’re eating, not gorging. Your family size may vary, so how you do this may also vary. But get ‘em in whatever you’re baking them in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728392292-DEGYH2SU9FEI2EVVLJTW/processed_20201129_163529.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Whisk that sauce up and get it on there. It doesn’t have to be perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728411087-97QZSB5805NXJ4YYXN5G/processed_20201129_163738.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Cheese. Again, there is no such thing as too much cheese. Go nuts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728429818-N0L5E19JL94A7PZEXYQE/processed_20201129_163821.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells You want some foil on your shells. Time to put them in that preheated oven! Bake those puppies around 30 minutes, then remove the foil and give them however long they need to brown the cheese well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728449935-P3TLEEWBKLRJI0L44IZS/processed_20201129_174941.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Like this. This was 20 minutes for me. Usually it’s 15, so my oven is playing tricks on me! Please let this cool for at least 5 minutes once it comes out. If you ignore this, I don’t want y’all blaming me for your mouth burns! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606728489007-HD1875QJBILBXVMSRQSE/processed_20201129_175242.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Three Sisters Stuffed Shells Last: enjoy!! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-make-vegetable-ferments-lhbay monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1582843171312-P0AVL2QKMM6ATZ5K6595/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments There is nothing about kimchi that doesn’t make me happy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583361260968-YEQ67ETVRFBZLLWURGEL/DogsGrays.0.0.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Are you really going to tell me that this dog doesn’t look amazing? Only think that could make it better is if the kraut were fermented instead of pickled! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583421820004-O5ZSJXVECOPVMBIGI0PQ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This right here is “the start of a beautiful friendship” between you and some half or full sours! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424186439-WI9BSWOTIONZUS355D4G/Brine-Chart-for-Making-Pickles.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This one is nice because it also gives you volumetric. If you’re doing chile pastes or olives, you’ll double the 5% amounts to help prevent mold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424236279-8LN41VOSWQ59BLBDB0T9/brine+chart.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments I like this chart the best, though, because it gives you some guidance on which vegetables go with which brine percentages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424502268-MCK3RJVHMO2QM4RDX94N/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Olives! This is, hands down, my favorite fruit. I eat olives nearly every day, most of which are home cured. My bags of olives tend to come with a lot of leaves, so I save those for my herbalist practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583425116016-F7BYYS8FCUBH5C25CAE7/half+sours.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This is a super simple recipe for half sours https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/a6t8hcyjrrrxcb7k7caj4fn6c7y6d7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606166179323-6SG6XX4PM8BVLFAN9WQI/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607525862387-C47MYX9FX8EZASM9ZDPN/Merry-Christmas-825x550.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/oat-cakes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608139186914-1257XIQYYRJTZJ9MPYRH/maxresdefault.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Oat Cakes I feel like this still is a far more accurate representation of what my days look like than I generally am willing to acknowledge as such. But here we are anyway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608215889588-A8KM9JTDAM533RT393YB/processed_20201216_161952.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Oat Cakes Doesn’t look too tasty at this point, but you can clearly see the water addition to the dough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608215906591-ZW8F9T8LHBHOFIMK5G49/processed_20201216_163159.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Oat Cakes You may/will need to flip these over several times. I have an electric stove, so I also needed to move my breads around the pan due to lack of even heating. Also forgot to take a picture of these being flattened out a lot more. I used a spatula to do that while they were cooking, because I didn’t want to sit and wait for them to cook when they were thicker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608215934047-7CTSS9IH4NWXQAVCE915/processed_20201216_171001.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Oat Cakes https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes-fgde9 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This globe is in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Child Tester never can get enough of this one! The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your annual temperatures will be. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your annual temperatures will be. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/rgw72f5lfng98pamnh5trkhhbtaxsd monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606166179323-6SG6XX4PM8BVLFAN9WQI/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sourdough-awamat monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063195981-TK3W1UQ65L77UYWEQMCX/processed_20201213_170804.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! Mix your dry ingredients. Child Tester was pretty stoked to make donuts with me, so she did most of the early part. She also ground the saffron. I get in trouble if I grind the saffron instead of “letting” her, as this is her very favorite spice. She considers saffron candy to be the best candy available! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063221647-GX03C6Z9BS4UV9PJWDOM/processed_20201213_170907.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! Add the wet ingredients, not including your sourdough. That yellow is from the saffron. It’d be even more vibrant if I’d bloomed it properly! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063248144-55NCWJ2UPD3SU39FJL98/processed_20201213_171111.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! Time for your SD starter! She switched to a spatula for more ease in folding. You’re basically folding at this point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063297668-U1U7OJBN9JKA0ZNN2HO2/processed_20201213_171308.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! It’ll look like this when it’s all mixed in. Or thereabout. Yes, you’re really going to make donuts out of this mess! But you’ve got to knead it first. Sort of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063321933-3F2KUUSYXGSEEWJC51KJ/processed_20201213_172940.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! I personally recommend you use a spatula to knead your dough, because really you’re folding it for about 5-10 minutes. Figure 7. Either way, it will be elastic and not hugely dissimilar in its texture from viili when you’re done. It will be extremely sticky still, and you will feel a bit uncertain as to whether I lied to you. I promise I didn’t. Either way, I was abandoned at this stage because this part of the job really isn’t the most fun portion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063444437-0APWX6NH0TCXC72316S5/processed_20201213_183819.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! Here is where you need to flour. Coat your hands liberally in flour and pinch some of the dough off in whatever manner you prefer, then do your best to roll it. I like to have flour on the outside and shape it like a tiny boule. Drop them in the fryer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063347057-X600GIRG2VE5HI6NEFF9/processed_20201213_190606.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! You shouldn’t do this, either. This is happening because I noticed mine were not cooked all the way through when I went to dip them in the honey syrup, so I put them all back in together. If you’re not “re-frying,” don’t crowd the pot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063364020-GIJ4HDRE2GRIADDFJX8J/processed_20201213_191621.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! Set up your dipping station! All your finished, golden awamat on one end, honey/sugar syrup in the middle for dipping, fork to easily remove and let drain, plate for the finisheds. I have tried a lot of different ways to do this in avoidance of this style of organization, and I strongly recommend being organized in some fashion similar to this pic. Strongly recommend. Sweet things are a nightmare to clean off counters! To make your syrup: warm your honey until it’s kind of runny. Ideally you won’t be lazy like me and you’ll use the stove instead of the microwave. Or you can be like me and nuke the honey. Only you will know, unless you tell someone! Once the honey is runny, whisk or stir in your lemon juice and the scented water, if you’re using that too. Either way, the honey really does need to be warmed so that it’s more like syrup. It will not coat your donuts correctly if you don’t warm it first. Trust me on that. If you’re going sugar syrup, yours is default runny so you’ve got nothing to worry about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063386033-F5UKUDB1LK1L86SYWU1P/processed_20201213_194224.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! These are basically how they should look if you are looking just for the syrup that soaked in while you were dipping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608063405939-JUOJKANIFI32IVUOJKHW/processed_20201213_194442.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! This is what the crumb looks like if you didn’t feel you had enough syrup and dunked it in more once you’d had a bite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1608132431722-J0EP1775NHG4KB2YP9IU/47164806_1074115876101155_8994390695896678400_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Awamat! This one cracks me up. Happy holidays, y’all! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures-75cgh-5k8al monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433131560-O3PMEPUPET8LTGODAHVC/processed_20200525_135245.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Other than the odds and ends on the far right, this is all my dairy, sourdough, and water kefir. Some of these are still being converted over from wet to dry, for reasons that are now clear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/4t97fn9x5fn2j7r5xsxfdt9ntrskg2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606166179323-6SG6XX4PM8BVLFAN9WQI/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cabbage-and-potato-latkes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607524620474-74AOV4U0QJGAJ8NJX169/processed_20201208_184018.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cabbage and Potato Latkes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607524603104-J1A0SM28V8WTDOI1ZEA3/processed_20201208_182205.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cabbage and Potato Latkes In a perfect world, you’ll cut your cabbage properly. This larger cut still works fine if you also aren’t going to shred. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607524701375-LRKQP5PM3NXBWWX8WTZ3/processed_20201208_184638.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cabbage and Potato Latkes Top of omelet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607524717406-NCSPA7KS4RRO2C6UECGH/processed_20201208_185007.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cabbage and Potato Latkes Ross said y’all need to see the bottom, and he is right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1607525463966-I5JOVX8YYZ4DMIFE728C/12-12-2017-Hanukkah-eblast-2017-image.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cabbage and Potato Latkes https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-take-a-break-from-yogurt-f882a monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1559773308434-TUQG5I7MK6YGCF8LCRKA/IMG_E5650.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to take a break from yogurt - How to take a break from yogurt https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ah8zhmymfzkbjg5kbrazza9cjsc9rb monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606166179323-6SG6XX4PM8BVLFAN9WQI/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/banana-quark-yogurt monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606748777706-JPRVRYEHYWQ7I40JZS8M/Melinda+BSQIC.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Banana Split Quark Yogurt: Guest Author Melinda Cobb Melinda doesn’t think this picture is going to make y’all hungry, but we all know she’s wrong, and we’re grateful for her ability to stimulate our post-holiday appetites! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/yogurt-cooler-and-oven-method monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725247024-8EZ8E2PLK1XO08K48DYA/processed_20201126_160131.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Like this. I do not babysit milk, so this has a skin on it due to not stirring. No matter. We aren’t ready to remove that. You can stop it around here if you like, but I tend to leave it sometimes for several hours to caramelize. This produces a naturally sweeter yogurt with caramel-y notes because it concentrates the sugars in the milk. Child Tester is a great lover of this method. I believe in Russia, milk is baked until caramelized and then cultured with kefir. I can’t remember the name of this, sadly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725269891-YJG8X1ASON26I3393ZI4/processed_20201126_172039.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method I normally go darker, but here we are anyway! Had to move on with me day. This yogurt has been cooled. I cooled it until my finger felt wet when I stuck it in the milk. If I’m feeling frisky, I’ll go a bit longer. Sometimes I mess up and let it cool too much. I freely admit I stick it in the microwave in 30 second bursts, until it feels right after the milk has been stirred, when this happens. Go on ahead and remove the skin and then add your culture. If Linus the Cat is around when I pull the skin, he’s welcome to it. Otherwise I toss it. I should toss it in the garden next time; it can go with the SCOBYs! Not sure why I didn’t think of that before! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725301355-VT24NR6FBHYGYGZC2PYN/processed_20201126_172431.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Blanket for the bottom of the cooler. This is technically a tablecloth that got badly stained during hurricane Ike and I haven’t dyed it to cover that up yet. One day. Until then, it cradles the yogurt! Settle your crock in there so it’s as level as you can get it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725321661-RHO3K8XFDH909VVGGQPR/processed_20201126_172500.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method This is actually a rug, but same-same. Put it on top and tuck the ends. Be careful not to spill your crock! But definitely make sure your crock is snug in its bed. Don’t stress out on filling the cooler with padding. In a perfect world, it’d be full to maximize insulation potential, but yogurt is flexible about this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725341342-U66THNPZZPRF7DA3TEQ8/processed_20201126_172757.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Close cooler, then wait. If your yogurt is established, you can technically do this in as little as 12 hours. Your yogurt will be thinner, though. You also can go up to 72. Your yogurt will be very sour in these instances. I generally shoot for 24 but frequently wind up going 48. Do not open up the cooler to check on it! You can do this maybe once, but the yogurt is never as good when it happens. Assume that when you open the cooler, you’re removing the yogurt. Because that’s what you should be doing. I think Ross jacked this cooler from his parents, though I’d need to verify that. I am certain they don’t want it back, though, because the thing really does smell like yogurt inside. It takes a… uh… special kind of non-fermenter to be okay with that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606725360926-QZ1F1SZ68J9C1QPM0IH0/processed_20201129_125948.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Yogurt: Cooler and Oven Method Yogurt! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/bt7x95r6p7ckaf4dpzbhyem2zg7kcw monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cornbread monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606315351192-ZUEKDBFCJCXWB0ASJ8FT/processed_20201124_171239.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cornbread Top, still in its skillet, right after it came out of the oven. This style of cracking on the top is desired for a more old school form of cornbread. This looked really weird to me for years, and it didn’t stop being that way in my mind until I started thinking of this style of cornbread as massive corn gems. I make my gems in an authentic, 1867 R&E #2 pan, because I’m that kind of food history and cookery nerd. Then it looked normal to see the cracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606315397463-TKYGTUY3DXOUPBLJF3HM/processed_20201124_182046.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cornbread Crumb shot! As you can see, this is a crumbly cornbread. To us. To him, this looks suspiciously like it’s entered the cake zone (even though it hadn’t). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606315376531-29X8BTPYD3P0KJ3S0877/processed_20201124_173641.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cornbread The bottom. Ross felt it was important for y’all to see how the bottom looks. I was nålbinding on my bed when he brought it to me to photograph, because I really thought I was done taking pictures until dinner time. This was made more convenient for him by the fact that the lighting in my room is incredibly poor, so I already had the photography lights out in order to see my stitches more easily. For those of you who are interested in examples of nålbinding, I am posting those instead of plants in our Instagram now for the Ask Allie columns. I also have more examples on my personal IG, which is where I document my NB journey. Many of these pieces will wind up in the company IG, because my garden is a freaking mess right now and I just can’t bear to show it to y’all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606315445092-WZWK5BOUD1S5U2I7RB0I/processed_20201124_182127.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cornbread It mattered a lot to Child Tester that I take a picture of her heavily cheese-laden chili. There’s cornbread in there, even if you can’t see it on account of the cheese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606315419229-TO3OZUL87R3E4LBG7BP1/processed_20201124_182143.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cornbread I do not put my cornbread in my chili. I instead put butter on it. I don’t know why I always put my cornbread on a napkin, but that’s what I do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1606318000581-FV66X3K8K2RLXER8NUKX/thanksgiving-1536x864.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cornbread Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/thermophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-f7n7t monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006767075-69M8TH4YEQHTHXQ9R5DE/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Thermophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Thermophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/tfppp7yj8437edrfehtkfdlbbl7pwz monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fjallfil-potato-knishes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1605745810146-848EJOPPSJAEMZY54DZG/processed_20201118_173955.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fjällfil Potato Knishes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1605745870154-B4N70RV9P70PVYH4IQ9M/processed_20201118_162251.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fjällfil Potato Knishes Kind of like this, though you’ll roll your dough out better, I’m sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1605745844477-1S7O2KX4ZWZWNKQQV8GP/processed_20201118_171913.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fjällfil Potato Knishes Like I said, not pretty when overfilled, but your mouth won’t mind. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mesophilic-how-to-fix-thin-yogurt-m5bd8 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1556006026300-RZJFFI9ZYBJRKTPXWYSV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Mesophilic: How to fix thin yogurt? - How to fix thin yogurt: Mesophilic Cultures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/y6fnfmbb2s34a7376tthjl3ymx2wx4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermented-wild-plums monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1605010175007-XPOZ562E5HOB96O3TWKW/3831609679_c4c1e81ac8.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermented Wild Plums! I really should have saved a plum to take a picture, but I forgot. Then I remembered that my favorite forager, Merriwether, has a picture on his site. I linked this site above too, for those of you who are seeking more/new info on foraging skills. He’s also got information in this link on how to use plums to make a new sourdough starter, so y’all read that too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1605115737068-2C6A2DBSMBGVKWJIHOG4/processed_20201111_112614.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermented Wild Plums! Spices on the left, honey on the right. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sushi-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604940850418-0I9EI5MN9DY0QG2K2N9L/narezushi-1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sushi: an Origin Story Narezushi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604942216513-LEBVAL2H3QSZ3RSADXVF/27286e4c32a588f75ab98e08a855ad5fadcc6918v2_hq.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sushi: an Origin Story As you can see, this type of sushi really just doesn’t need a lot of explanation. It’s fresh fish and fresh rice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604952426048-BNOSZESK5XJ7VZU0GD8Q/history_of_sushi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sushi: an Origin Story Near as i can tell, this is Matsumoto Yoshiichi. Someone please tell me if I botched this. Seriously. If I’m wrong, please email me straight away and say so, otherwise I can’t correct it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604954432359-LZ3CL6GTX9WF7IA535CT/%E6%B1%9F%E6%88%B8%E5%89%8D.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sushi: an Origin Story Is that cheese right there on the top right corner? Or is it egg? Why are there never these gloriously ginormous hunks of whatever yum that is on my plates? https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/34lhspzbn2bkxcn75hh34yp9egswy5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/braised-lamb-shanks monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604414851656-IBPKH3XLOBNOTSAVHUIH/processed_20201102_113107.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks Put all of the first group of ingredients in your dutch oven. Just chuck ‘em on in there - they won’t care! This is a 6-quart DO, but I normally do this in a roasting pan or deep casserole dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604414878719-TSBQIFPNZLR5JUZQ7P6B/processed_20201102_113127.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks Generously salt one side and then coat with ras el hanout. Let it hang out for about an hour exposed like this one you have seasoned it. Seriously, y’all. Go heavier on the salt than you normally would. The meat is the only thing that’s getting salted, and this is a big ol’ pot of yums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604414907317-575XYOPMFYPHXDEC1L43/processed_20201102_114217.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks I usually use potatoes instead of turnips, but I didn’t have any potatoes and I did have a turnip. This was really lovely, because the long braise mellowed the turnips out quite a bit, and they soaked up a ton of the saffron as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604414932975-P0PC0GH1ARU0LQQJWCN4/processed_20201102_130213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks You’re making a bed for your lamb right now. Put the root veg in first (I put all the turnip on the bottom), then your more delicate stuff like the celery and leek tops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604414963421-WUZKF7J1OBIV9TGQBKY2/processed_20201102_142153.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks These tomatoes were actually frozen when I stuck them in there. I’ve been in this wonderful cycle lately of tossing whole tomatoes in the freezer if I realize I’m not going to use them before they go bad. I then just grab however many tomatoes I need from the freezer and put them in whatever. They thaw, then cook, and they’re great for stuff like this or to make fresh tomato sauces. The sauces are super easy because I just add them and maybe some water, heat slowly, and mash the tomatoes up with the back of the spoon when they’re thawed in the pot or wherever. Cuts down on the number of canned tomatoes I need, too! Anyway, put your can of tomato sauce on the veggies, then nestle in the lamb with the spiced-side down. Nestle the tomatoes in somewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604414985527-47AZVHKB63EEL3EWDMF6/processed_20201102_142234.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks Good sprinkle of salt on the unspiced side of the lamb, then sprinkle on a bit more of the ras el hanout. You don’t need the same coverage, since the other side is densely spiced. After this goes in, it’s up to you if you want to cover it or not. I generally cover for half of the time, then uncover for the rest. I do this in a 300F/150C/GM2 oven for 3 hours. This is actually why I was able to cater the wedding so easily, because we tossed the lamb in the oven, went and got married, came back, took it out, finished setting up the reception, and then onto the fun! Whatever you decide, it really is okay to do the braise uncovered because the vegetables release a lot of fluid that can’t evaporate as well because the lamb is in its way. No matter what you decide about the cover, you do really need to flip that lamb over halfway through the braising process. Flip, cover/uncover/whatever, 1.5 more hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604415045692-T4E6AK0DUFAQ98KOXVXA/processed_20201102_172935.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks Yeah this is done. You can see the lamb has pulled away from the bone nicely, there’s some amazing stock down at the bottom, and the veggies look perfect. You really want your veggies to be soft but to still have texture. We’re not looking for mush here, which is why we put the root veg all the way at the bottom. There’s around 3 cups of amazing oven broth nestled around all your root veg. Don’t forget to save that for other yummy things like risotto or couscous later! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604415013354-0SC8UKNVB7CB8VHLPIME/processed_20201102_173225.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Braised Lamb Shanks Needed the rice, see? It’s okay, though. We had plenty of flatbread and hummus to make up for my failure to rice appropriately! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/types-of-fermentation monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604349893245-N4OQRJFMAPZGIDR1VKMZ/processed_20180610_231319.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This is an old picture, but this loaf of bread was risen by the emptins of a small beer I’d made, which used sourdough starter as its yeast source. Look how tall it is! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604328183458-WYKM6LTBH34Z41BQP5VK/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation Lactic acid fermentation at its most famous - kraut! The Matter of Food/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604341830209-CDBGC6IXWIY06E8HUC9Z/lactic+acid+chart.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This will better explain the process to those of you interested in the science. I was really stressed out over this image, because I lost the source. It took me hours to track it down again so I could remove the dagger from my academic heart!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604342204866-HKPNHR8QV5LHTFCVNOMD/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation We’re obviously moving onto the boozy portion of our little journey now. Logan Weaver/Getty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604350923686-KC9HJPG2QYDGJZEDXZ6H/alcoholic+fermentation+coenzymes-2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation Enzymes in question. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604350336966-K7IYZP9SOY5E397V2Q8L/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation DANG IT! I was so happy that I found that other source that I forgot the name of the person who did this picture. Franz _________/Getty. Someone fill in the last page, please, if you recognize it. This is insanely embarrassing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1604352135272-NPKIOG2VHQQADNU58UY0/Screenshot+2020-11-02+at+3.22.00+PM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Types of Fermentation This chart is awesome and very informative! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/zxkrny8pltxakdlppzsbshe69xlrxa monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/appaloosa-bean-salad monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603899985441-86T8N7NED2YJQL6VH28L/appaloosa.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Appaloosa Bean Salad This is the non-yogurt version. I sometimes split the mixture and add yogurt to half the dressing/salad and leave the rest as you see here. Other times, I make it all without and stir in a bit for Child Tester’s bowls. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/more-runny-activation-batches monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603728046427-8HYJWLCBDT7WC8LULM01/4695213.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Runny Yogurt Activation Batches https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/4psfa2ks84j3p4ckgsbfp55rfxcn9f monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/blueberry-and-almond-granola monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1603293688916-8AVZOSG1GYYMAO2I5HI8/processed_20201021_082901.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Blueberry and Almond Granola For reasons I don’t pretend to understand, Child Tester really wanted her dress in the picture. So there it is behind the granola! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cold-start-instant-pot-bdgtl monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/2knnz6ww3hplrzh8j4ms9hpttcey9y monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/brunost monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458142002-P8TQPUGBHXZFWH14ND5Q/processed_20201009_112027.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures Once it’s fully separated, it can look a bit vomit-y. Vomit-y appearances are something you just have to get used to for these sorts of things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458170560-YRTACDVMD255C1Q5W8V5/processed_20201009_113536.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures I forgot to take a picture of it fully separated while still in the whey, but you’ll be able to tell. It basically will look like cottage cheese floating in whey. Then, grab a big bowl, add a colander, and either line it with a straining bag (this is easiest), several layers of cheesecloth, or a couple of layers of muslin. Pour the whole mix into the colander/fabric combo, and do try to be more careful than I was. I had to strain mine twice because I wasn’t careful and a bunch of cheese went right over the colander into the strained whey! Hang it in some fashion, whether to a cabinet knob or… well, whatever your system is or will become. How long you strain it depends on you. Do you want something more like grocery store cottage cheese? Less time, so it comes out pretty wet. More like ricotta because you’re itching to make lasagna? Bit longer. You really can do this for as long as you want, and I often will strain for up to 24 hours if I think I might like to press the cheese into a block later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458194303-STXKRH52EZY28RZAZXNG/processed_20201009_154959.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures This is what I opted for. It’s still moist enough that it can be smashed and spread, but it’s dry enough that it has a bit of crumble to it. I went with this amount because I do want to make lasagne, because I knew Child Tester would need a bowl of curds and whey, and because I knew I was going to make brunost and so I wanted the whey faster in hopes it wouldn’t take as long as it really does to make brunost. This is the stage in which you’ll salt your cheese, whatever texture it has when you pull it. You should have about a quart of cheese and the remainder of the gallon of milk in whey. I meant to save some whey for other things, but I forgot. As always. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458221691-LBI22PMKTUMNI2PK0ADR/processed_20201009_183541.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures We had some of this for dinner with fresh flat bread. I used the Icelandic starter for this, because it’s what I had on the counter right then. Into this small portion of the cheese, I added fresh garlic chives, basil, and lemon verbena, then drizzled with oil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458303549-0S1WTPADTDKBLIBI6J6H/processed_20201009_155441.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures Whey into another large pot. I do low heat and accept that this may take a couple of days. Y’all may wish to use higher heat at first. Just know that if you do, you have to babysit it so it doesn’t burn on the bottom. I do it super low because I really can’t babysit it since it’s a circus around here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458331212-AH0ELHLUIF3TRGOVLFAT/processed_20201009_215922.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures You still have to stir it even with low heat. Just a lot less often! It will begin to caramelize. At this stage, you’ll start to get excited. Don’t yet. It’s just the beginning still. Actually, do, but only in small doses of excitement so you don’t run out by the time this jazz is done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458352710-X5K9P8HRPEDB5KE3822M/processed_20201010_163322.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures After a couple of millennia, it starts to look vomit-y again. This will become more pronounced as you go. I’ve swapped to a smaller pot at this point, due to my continued inability to babysit. The reduced surface area gives more space to stir intermittently instead of constantly like you really should be doing at this point. When it’s halfway between this color and the color below, add your cream if using. Then keep on stir, stir, stirring! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458375943-PUD0VS6FCRASG2JVR0KS/processed_20201011_162629.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures This is a nice color. It goes in the blender at this point. You can add it at a lighter color if you want, but this is the color I like. If, when you’re stirring it, it takes a bit to “fill the gaps” of where your spoon was, this is a good stopping point. Once it’s hit that point, it’s all personal preference from there Traditionally you don’t put this in the blender. But brunost can be gritty, and I didn’t want that. Blending fixes it. WARNING: do not use your blender without putting a towel over the top first. If this expels some, it’s going to burn. Brunost burns have a fair bit sugar involved in them and sugar burns hurt a lot more than other burns. I’m being serious, y’all. If you’re going to disregard instructions, don’t let it be this instruction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458396462-5EMAI0THD4ONNTZTVYBP/processed_20201011_163248.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures Post blender. You can see how pretty and glossy it is. It doesn’t taste like the candy it looks like. It is sweet, but like a sweet, musky cheese, not sweet like caramel. I put this in a 1 cup buttered ramekin after I ate some straight from the blender (dumb; burned my mouth despite emphatically blowing on it), then set it in a bowl of cold water for a few minutes before it went in the fridge. If you’re so inclined, you can turn the cheese out of its mold. I don’t do this because my cheese slicer disappeared years ago, so I just scrape some off the top to add to my toast instead of having pretty slices. Technically, brunost does not need to be stored in the fridge. But know that it will not last as long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602458451373-BYBA04MIIKNOBFG9G7Y1/processed_20201009_183712.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Farmer's Cheese and Brunost, Mostly in Pictures This last picture obviously has exactly nothing to do with the cheeses. Child Tester made pasta for dinner, and she said it was important to her that you guys could see both what she made and the crumb of the flat bread, so she staged it while we were eating for y’all. So here you go! Dinner à la Child Tester! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ktu2xf1oc3bicwqn7mxzf60pqk91pt monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602437576605-GH440M79O33UCBEYR53L/index.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Skyr: an Origin Story I love the little heart-shaped divot in this picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602439257874-QEIJMFF18LVEZ3IV4UMH/stong_dairy_vat.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Skyr: an Origin Story Vats for storing meats preserved in whey. The meat never looks particularly appetizing to me, so I’ll let y’all find your own pictures of that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602439959187-MM7U2I2BPJ17K3R3HPYR/butterwort-0400.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Skyr: an Origin Story Common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) grows in Iceland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602440080122-92KUZ0ONMQ3N1ZKC6MK8/330px-Drosera-rotundifolia.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Skyr: an Origin Story Common sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) also grows in Iceland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602440189377-90QL4FU8V1RZ5RTOX27Y/1*FlpY94aZBgZJ3U9tAy_ZWQ.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Skyr: an Origin Story Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) AKA common nettle also grows in Iceland! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602511409226-ISD8OU9XVOGXT9CZMGBN/Skyr+Kammer+Glaumbaer.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Skyr: an Origin Story Skyr and whey vats from Glaumbær museum village. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1602440460693-HTVTRS0IVVB2EQM2J4IK/8639669018_79725ed3e2_b.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Skyr: an Origin Story Icelandic sheep are really cool. This heritage breed of sheep has been maintained since Iceland was settled, and their wool makes for some very cool yarns. Generally speaking, these days, Icelandic sheep are used for meat and fibre rather than for milk production. Although these sheep are dual-coated; where there’s a long, stiff, and scratchy outer coat (tog) and a fine inner coat (þel, which is pronounced “thel,” where it’s the hard “th” like in “think” instead of the soft one like in “this;” the “e” and “l” are pronounced the same as in English). These two fibres can (and are) separated and used for different applications, but Icelanders also make a fantastic style of yarn called “lopi” that uses both. This stiff outer layer is water-resistant and keeps you dry, and the fine, inner layer keeps you warm and helps to regulate temperatures. This is perfectly suited to their climate! This style of yarn is really lovely to work with, also, but is primarily used for outerwear because it’s scratchy. It also makes excellent dish rags! I have also read that you can use whey with your dyes as a mordant and ferment the wool in there to dye it. This is a skill I expect to never learn, but am interested in learning nonetheless. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ff54ah46tmcs8jh4wsm5dz8zkxrw4z monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pork-and-beans monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601929715966-ZJBFBNDEAK9LNKUVC71V/processed_20201002_170433.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pork and Beans https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/quinoa-an-origin-story-1 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601755300799-VUB7Q5YZJZ3J85PF8P85/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Quinoa: An Origin Story Dan Dennis/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601756481449-VEYWO27KNETSIZ22XY5L/unnamed.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Quinoa: An Origin Story This is a particularly popular amaranth, called Love Lies Bleeding. People buy it as an ornamental specifically because of these gorgeous seed displays. I have seeds for this amaranth and others to plant in the school garden. No reason school gardens can’t have the edible pretties, too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601756312247-AFXOT969VM0XLUT3F0S1/quinoa-taiwanese-02-520x520.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Quinoa: An Origin Story This is a Taiwanese quinoa. All you gardeners out there probably are very aware of just how much this looks like a number of purportedly ornamental (though still food) amaranths. This specific amaranth produces seeds smaller than the Andean ones we’re accustomed to finding in stores. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/rh828pl3s95bmm5mgdydmcnk855585 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pumpkin-and-rye-biscuits monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601481014764-YG8CEZKB11O8CBLJ14KU/L1020573.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pumpkin and Rye Biscuits https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fermentation-and-seasonal-changes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057129206-O76M8MTIH2YXNEPO4ZOG/6a0133f30ae399970b01a73da16dc5970d-800wi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601057598050-F61V6JATTGIOS7XOO7G3/processed_20200327_183619.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This is Flopsy. Unlike the vast majority of bunnies, he is not a jerk. He mostly just wants to snuggle. Please excuse the mess. It’s been one of those weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601058051929-85TKDCZJDYLZ3A5HU48U/EVBwtP5WkAICbG2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes This globe is in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Child Tester never can get enough of this one! The long and short of things, though, is that the closer to the equator you are, the more consistent (and consistently hot) your temperatures will be across seasons. The closer you are to the poles you are, the less consistent (but consistently colder) your temperatures will be across seasons. That’s really all we need to say about location, since y’all already understand the climate you live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601059128766-IQUBYDF19O630OPPFCQ0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Hot as the sun here half the year, it seems. Mostly because of the high humidity. When I lived in Utah, hotter temps than we get were more comfortable. I’m sorry for those of you in tropical zones that it’s so much hotter. I’m so ready for the 12 days of “winter” to get here! I picked this picture from Getty (I totally forgot to copy the attribution, and I’m so sorry whomever you are) because it hurts my eyes, and that also is true of our summers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1601063401246-8P7MP13POUHUFCYEJAZL/120185058_720221785373820_1059912245888893347_n.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermentation and Seasonal Changes Even though I consider milk kefir done when it looks like the jar on the far left, you can think of these more like “winter, spring/fall, summer,” because it really does give a good visual representation of how the differences really function. This is Sabrina’s picture, and I’m glad she always thinks of doing stuff like this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/zc8f7mj3nsd4j3mc8melcx2ejbmkfk monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pear-and-cranberry-tart monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598629743946-QYUVQBXGWVDDPO1EQ69E/L1020367.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pear and Cranberry Tart https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cookies-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1600263104767-UXFLG68XSDQUYMOZ1Y5N/girl+scouts.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cookies: An Origin Story I shall always love the Girl Scouts for their delicious cookies. I shall always be sad they got rid of the chocolate dipped shortbreads, too. I wish I’d never tasted them since they became extinct shortly after I learned they were a thing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1600264025082-F4PKCLEFZOWJGNPVCNL3/delish-macaroons-horizontal-239-1555626037.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cookies: An Origin Story These are macaroons. A popular, dense Passover treat, these are basically coconut, egg white, and sugar. This is pronounced MAC-uh-ROON. The “oo” is pronounced per broom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1600264210218-YCY7L4UJ0E8OZ85SPFDQ/Rainbow+Macaroons.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cookies: An Origin Story Mararons, in contrast, are also sometimes called French Macaroons, but are light, fluffy clouds of equally delicious gluten-free yum. This is pronounced MAC-ah-RON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1600264354830-N9GIJJGWHBXJFVERB33G/115819.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cookies: An Origin Story MAC-ah-RON like Ron Swanson. This is literally the face I make every time someone says macaroon and means macaron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1600455095751-PX53F947K7SZF1QWBEFY/800px-New_Netherland_%27NOVI_BELGII_NOVAEQUE_ANGLIAE_NEC_NON_PARTIS_VIRGINIAE_TABULA%27.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cookies: An Origin Story This is a map of New Netherland, done by Nicolaes Visscher II (1649–1702). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1600456310118-OXVL0MRTF3INYU8HBRXO/Naan+Berenji.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cookies: An Origin Story Make sure you click on this link for naan berenji, because we all know you want to bake some of these beautiful little cookies. These are GF, too, for those of you who need to know that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1600609795457-JT89O7B4CAJ7705WSLJF/Gas_stove_1851.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cookies: An Origin Story An early era model, this Windsor is from 1851. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/yyzsxgt3negrtwwb8zg5lwplg7dcls monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/potato-and-parmesan-crusted-eggplant monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598890512814-PCG2S5Y5GI2D2UVE1Y5E/eggplant.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Potato and Parmesan Crusted Eggplant https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/eggplant-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598889169754-FL83OEWZPRQGYYBW85K5/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story Diane Helentjaris/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598974619263-SE88D14Q0NAAEGPZYGOJ/main-qimg-1a9b8ec2e844d47cf850ba91a3d0f0a2-c.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story As you can see, male is closer to circular and is more shallow. Female is elongated and deeper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598975723952-7PMHF3YPSIH46W8Z59M7/4d6bb20397f84_59305b.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story Anyone who tries to tell me that these aren’t the coolest plants ever is gonna see my fingers in my ears as I’m singing “la-la-la-can’t-hear-you!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598983622686-DJOJHM20WV1M6TPB17GG/eggplantillus.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story I love this kind of plant drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1599239787354-8P20I18Y7U3W96BU5KXQ/mcn17901.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story “Distribution map of eggplant references in the early Chinese literature, before the crop's spread across the entire region by the 6th century. Black symbols indicate documented sites recorded in ancient Chinese literature.” (Ibid Results) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1599242866569-FTUGOBPHNT23SAXPT4QP/9d512bca90afdcba5451eca87ae11d5a.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story This exceptionally deadly plant, Atropa belladonna, is the prettiest of all the nightshades. In my opinion, at least. But this plant is why most Europeans consistently struggled to accept edible nightshades into their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1599671543693-RH16O5H7RPX5NTDADSHF/Eggplants-and-their-aphrodisiacal-effects-Tacuinum-Sanitatis-SN2644-folio-31v.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story This is one piece of medieval eggplant art. “FIG. 7 . Aubergine (eggplant),Solanum melongena, depicted in the Tacuinum Sanitatis: (A) Vienna 2644 folio 31v; (B) Paris 9333 folio 21r; (C) Rome 4182folio 41r; (D) Rouen 3054 folio 21r; (E) Paris 1673 folio 25v. “Vienna 2644 folio 31v (Fig. 7A) is not only one of the most stunning paintings in all of the Tacuinum manuscripts, it is also the most botanically correct in its depiction of aubergine, labelled Melongiana. This illustration appears to have been drawn from live plants in a garden, as four plants are depicted as aligned in a row. Moreover, the plants are depicted accurately for leaf shape, fruit and calyx size, shape and colour, and they are loaded with realistic egg-shaped, deep purple, glossy fruits at different stages of growth, the younger, smaller ones correctly depicted as borne near the plant apices. Eggplants have prominent, attractive corollas, usually purple, but, strangely, they are not shown. The plants are taller than the people in the foreground and exhibit only a few apical branches. Adult plants can indeed reach a person’s height but are more highly branched, suggesting that either the plants were pruned or, for clarity and aesthetics, basal branches simply were not drawn. “Vienna 2644 folio 31v (Fig. 7A) shows a lady admonishing a couple in which the man is fondling his female partner…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1599673329257-MGFE0HPU0CZETN0TCSR9/800px-Imperios_Espan%CC%83ol_y_Portugue%CC%81s_1790.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Eggplant: An Origin Story These are the Spanish and Portuguese holdings in 1790. The impact of this on both colonial and early post-colonial American access to eggplants would have been massive. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/wy594hr9xg3jnpjpw7be47tkstanhh monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/blueberry-nectarine-preserves monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598369222100-YTOM15LGYIK73ZUDR6DA/L1030195.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Blueberry-Nectarine Preserves https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures-75cgh monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433131560-O3PMEPUPET8LTGODAHVC/processed_20200525_135245.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Other than the odds and ends on the far right, this is all my dairy, sourdough, and water kefir. Some of these are still being converted over from wet to dry, for reasons that are now clear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ask-allie-8-millionth monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/green-falafel monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598282676287-W3YQRAA8S1XVWYY2IW2N/falafel.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Green Falafel This picture was taken by my brother-in-law Stephen. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/lets-talk-scobys monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598281562344-4BHR1QHBHHTI1YZZ9CSV/processed_20200824_100456.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Let's Talk About SCOBYs This is my jun SCOBY hotel. There was 1 SCOBY in it when I sealed it. The jar obviously didn’t seal properly, or it would not have filled up with them. I did not notice this until the deed was done, so to speak. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/2n2wm6m5hy2c7drdalfrxh9ahjamnr monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/tuna-and-white-bean-salad monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596667902937-A2D6EIDBPB500416RO8L/L1020740.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Tuna and White Bean Salad https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-chapter-5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598023016327-5FBSXT669294TYJ47E1H/51rodSzPjzL._AC_UL600_SR600%2C600_.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Pepper packets! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598023355654-7BOHGPUO98M7QOT6MV4B/image003.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) This map gives you a good idea of how things were going during the early this period and also last post’s period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598195375272-MMCB8EH8MAFR8X8WIFW4/829298-51420-tfzvrgkald-1487068475.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Yale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598199719223-QGH22B7W1MVONHVROJB7/Screenshot+2020-08-23+at+11.21.43+AM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) “According to George Washington’s ledger, on May 8, 1784, he paid 6 pounds 2 shillings to ‘Negros for 9 Teeth on Acct of Dr Lemoin.’” This is listed in the 6th “By” from the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598201625553-HXRTYXPR4VLBN6VAT1QA/triangular-trade-route-map.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Triangular Trade Route Map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598205011137-NAZZNZBXG97WPQQXUGP8/Haitian_Revolution-e1544608014759.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) This represents the Haitian Revolution, or Haitian Slave Revolution, which was conducted against the French from 1791-1804. They won, paving the way for other slave revolts. It wasn’t until 1848 that all French-owned slaves were emancipated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598209405984-Y7KGVE2W0E2A9X7GFK0L/800px-Captain_John_Carnes%2C_by_William_Verstille%2C_c._1800%2C_oil_on_canvas_-_Peabody_Essex_Museum_-_DSC07046.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) This is Carnes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598210751889-VO4MYDLX4HH5102ET4TE/SpicEx1.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) Although I can’t claim that this is the most contemporary source possible, it gives a good visual representation of how pepper fares when contrasted to other spices. It’s impressive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1598210915106-RO6H7AIS6U0PLHEET6A6/USpice1.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 5 (The End) The graph for American imports graph paints a different picture, where pepper is substantially more yes to us than the other spices in the spice set. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/2z2fk8njzdj5zh7mrftmlg9e5t5cjc monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sourdough-pizza-crust monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596666100200-O8AP6ZLK0FO2X0V9ULQC/processed_20200805_120811.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Pizza Crust, Mostly in Pictures Flour in bowl! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596666126251-HK832IDGBYEI85ZB9W9M/processed_20200805_121007.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Pizza Crust, Mostly in Pictures Starter in bowl! Mix it in, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596666154641-XIJZMO6W5HWECBTIQ2TQ/processed_20200805_121753.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Pizza Crust, Mostly in Pictures Add spices, oil, sugar, plus apparently not enough water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596666180032-TILGZC3N3YXW57A3OA4E/processed_20200805_121913.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Pizza Crust, Mostly in Pictures 125g was enough water. Get it to around this texture, then walk away for 30. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596666201796-Q7MIR9M02B8NIQH59NII/processed_20200805_125019.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Pizza Crust, Mostly in Pictures Knead the dough for maybe 3-5 minutes lightly, or until it’s actually smooth and elastic as I opted against doing. Then either oil your bowl and stick it back in, or oil something else and do the same. I discovered this little crock that I forgot I had, so I put it in there so as to justify keeping the crock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596666221995-PSLU08YGD22SUAWDFCTT/processed_20200805_125035.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Pizza Crust, Mostly in Pictures Cover in some capacity. I think I got this at Home Goods 3-4 years ago. You can see why I wish to keep it, huh? Either way, let it rise until it’s doubled in volume or you’re hungry. Mine was doubled, but I forgot to take a picture because I handed the operation off to Ross once he was home from work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596668520253-PCOSSJVD2XJK8CHYCRFC/processed_20200805_180117.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Pizza Crust, Mostly in Pictures https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-chapter-4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597340052131-WRP1IL5YBV22GYI8WZCI/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 Anas/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597417488994-8W9GVZF6F8TV3BVQZMOB/d78c3fbbaa26d8d195e7d67be68e5147.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 “Priory register detailing the food ordered for a visit by King Henry VII in around 1501.It includes the following: 3 and a half tuns of ale (a 'tun' of liquid was around 240-250 gallons),1 tun of wine,4 pounds of pepper,1 pound of saffron,1 pound of cloves and mace,2 pounds of cinnamon,2 pounds of ginger,12 pounds of small raisins,8 pounds of dates,20 pounds of sugar,4 oxen,20 sheep,3 dozen capons,3 dozen chickens,2 larded capons for the King,4 cygnets,2 peacocks,18 rabbits,100 eggs.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597418526531-UEH1G83HO24AOCL97U90/220px-Welsh_Dragon_%28Y_Ddraig_Goch%29.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 Henry VII is probably why we all know the Welsh Dragon. Although the symbol is from a much earlier time period, it became the official symbol of Wales under him. This was to symbolize the critical aid that Henry received from the Welsh in securing the throne. Henry VII was also of Welsh ancestry, and the Tudor name stems from that heritage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597505753342-W6VJ7QFH1BMN52HJREW9/2123d53de11dc0f217e19bc06ddda5ba.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This pepper mill belonged to Henry VIII and was found on the sunken Mary Rose, his favorite ship. “When archaeologists opened this pepper mill from the Mary Rose they were met with a whiff of the spice and found peppercorns still inside.Being able to put pepper on your food in Tudor period was a sign of wealth as it was an expensive luxury.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597509059980-U8VSMFBHBPH6SYEZ4ZII/1436768.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is woad at the stage where it needs to be used for dyeing. Once it’s in its second year and produces those lovely yellow flowers you can’t see here, it’s useless as a dye. I have woad seeds, and hope to one day plant them at my kid’s school, where I intend to amend the community garden we’re developing to include a dyer’s garden. This is also the plant that Picts and a few other Celtic tribes in the British Isles used to paint themselves with before war so they’d look all scary. Y’all would recognize this from Braveheart, even though the Scots didn’t actually perform this pre-war step. There’s also zip for evidence that Scots were using tartans yet, and instead they dressed pretty much the same as everyone else in Europe during that era. Just sayin’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597509197040-RWWBT3QBPFSIRVZPGRCZ/img_0440.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 These are some of the blues you can get from woad. The final product’s color and saturation will depend on what mordant, if any, was used in the dyeing process. Mordants are chemical additives that help set the color so they’re actually dyed instead of stained (stains come out; dyes do not). This really is rather a lot of article space dedicated to a dyer’s plant that has exactly nothing to do with pepper. Let’s move on from this before I get trapped in a thought loop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597510114198-VI4VTWC3O6DM9ZCAA9GF/case_3a_477_sig_a6v_a7r.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is a very cool text, done by Walter Bailey in 1588 (30 years into Elizabeth’s reign). For those of you who can’t read this, here’s what it says in more modern English (with spellings mostly normalized and some words entirely modernized): Thus as Dioscorides writes, and hereby also we are to understand that the old saying is fabulous and untrue, that pepper is made black with fire. For the merchants which brought the peppers, said, that serpents and venomous beasts did use much to be under these pepper trees, and that they were driven to stay away those serpents with making fires under the trees, before they durst gather the peppers, and so the pepper was made black by the fire. But now we learn by the histories penned by the latter writers, that all this is untrue, and that black pepper is of that color by his own kind, when it is ripe: and so that for white pepper is of his own kind, even of that color when it is ripe. As the red grape has that color naturally when it is ripe, and the white grape keeps his color even to his full ripeness. Wherefore those writers were much deceived, which affirmed, that white and black pepper were of one tree: and that white pepper was the fruit not thoroughly ripe, and that black pepper was the same perfectly ripe. For (say they) as in our country, when we gather apples, all of the same tree are not of like ripeness, some not full ripe, some full ripe, some over ripe, and all are gathered at one time: so, say these men, when the merchants do gather pepper, some grains are thoroughly ripe, and they black and wrinkled, some not full ripe, and they whiter in color, and smooth not wrinkled. But it appears that by which they have delivered to us, which have seen and gathered both these kinds of peppers, that they are gathered of several trees, and that each does perfectly ripe in his kind, and each retains his color: the white grain when it is ripe keeps the white color, and the black pepper when it is ripe keeps his black color. Even as the white grape being ripe remains white, and the red grape red, and yet each do come off several vine trees different in kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597515419225-S2HPVA5JKLDUB01XVXMR/the-golden-speech-sp-12-282-ff137-141.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is the full Golden Speech (1601), which I translate as follows: Her Majesty’s most princely answer, delivered by herself at the Court of Whitehall, on the last day of November 1601: When the Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament (assisted with the greatest part of the Knights and Burgesses) had presented their humble thanks for her free and gracious favor in preventing and reforming of sundry grievances, by abuse of many Grants, commonly called Monopolies. The same being taken verbatim in writing by A.B. as near as could possible set it down. Imprinted at London. Anno 1601. (title page) [skipping the repeat of title page on page 138] Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent they are fallen into the due consideration of the (138) precious gift of thankfulness, most usually least esteemed, where it is best deserved. And therefore we charge you tell them how acceptable such sacrifice is worthily of a loving King, who doubts much whether the given thanks can be of more poise than the owed is to them: and suppose that they had done more for us, than they themselves believe. And this is our reason: Who keeps their Sovereign from the lapse of error, in which, by ignorance, and not by intent, they might have fallen; what thanks they deserve, we know, though you may guess. And as nothing is more dear to us than the loving conservation of our subjects’ hearts, What an underserved doubt we might have incurred, if the abusers of our liberality, the thrallers of our people (2) the wringers of the poor had not been told [to] us! Which, ere our heart or hand agree unto, which we had neither: and do thank you more, supposing that such griefs touch not upon you in particular [emphasis mine]. We trust there resides, in their conceits of us, no such simple cares of their good, whom we so dearly prize, that our hand should passe, outght that might injury any, though they doubt not it is lawful for our kingly state to grant gifts of sundry sorts of who we make election, either for service done, or to merit to be deserved, as being for a King to make choice on who to bestor benefits, more to one then another. You must not beguile yourselves, nor wrong us, to think that the glowing luster of a glittering glory of a King’s title may so extol us, that we think all (3) is lawful what we list, not caring what we do: Lord, how far should you be off from our conceits! For our part, we vow unto you, that we suppose Physicians aromatic favors, which in the top of the Potion they deceive the Patients with, or Gilded drugs that they cover their bittersweet with, are not more beguilers of senses than the vain board of a kingly name may deceive the ignorant of such an office. I grant, that such a Prince, as cares not for the dnitity, nor passes not how the reins should be guided, so be rule, to such a one, it may seem an easy business. But you are cumbered (I dare assume) with no such Princh, but such a one, as looks how to give account before another Tribunal seat than this world affords, and that hopes, what if we (4) discharge with conscience what he bids, will not lay to our charge the fault that our Substitutes (not being our crime) fall in. We think ourselves most fortunately born under such a star, as we have been enabled by God’s power to have saved you under our reign, from foreign foes, from Tyrants’ rule, and from your own ruin; and do confess, that we pass, not so much to be a Queen, as to be a Queen of such subjects, for whom (God is witness, without boast or want) we would willing lose our life, ere see such to perish. I bless God, he has never given me this fault of fear; for he knows best; whether ever fear possessed me, for all my dangers: I know it is his gift; and not to hide his glory, I say it. For were it not for conscience, and for (5) your sake, I would willingly yield another to my place, so great is my pride in reigning, that she that wishes no longer to be, then Best and Most would have me so. You know our preference cannot assist each action, but must distribute in sundry sorts to divers kinds our commands. If they (as the greatest numbers be commonly the worst) should (as I doubt not that some do) abuse their charge, annoy whom they should help, and dishonor their king, whom they should serve: yet we verily believe, that all you will (in your best judgment) discharge us from such guilts. Thus we commend us to your constant faith, and yourselves to your best fortunes (6). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597519550534-P8UO09X7Z2LAD638W8B9/Elizabeth-I-facts-4.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This is the highly recognizable Armada Portrait, which was commissioned after Elizabeth trounced Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597524207556-F92NIJ264NOKXCHBRZNU/Screenshot+2020-08-15+at+3.39.25+PM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This map shows you what most nations were up to with these routes. The Dutch don’t really need their own during most of this period, since they were mainly working for the Portuguese. You can see that 1577-1580 is the golden period for getting England into this game. I personally find this map most usable if one uses their finger to keep track of where the line one wants is going. Also, the gap in the map dates, I believe, stems from the Crusades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597526457487-TN8ZLM726LJJLXVWPSM7/visscher_070.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 “This map of the East Indies was originally printed in the late sixteenth century to entice Dutch investors to take control of the region and the spice trade from the Portuguese. Note the spices (nutmeg, cloves, and sandalwood) on the bottom edge.” This is from before the Dutch had arrived as a major player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597536908198-9EL92MZCAL9E8G11BD7F/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 Louis XIV. He was, at one point, the most powerful dude in all of Europe. It is from this Louis that men start wearing wigs again, because he didn’t enjoy the balding process and accordingly sought to cover it up. Enter trickle down fashion! High heels during this time were also worn by men, not women. Originally, heels were created to aid men in war-related horseback riding, but that ultimately was appropriated by Catherine de Medici. She popularized it briefly for women, but then when she died, women stopped wearing them because men preferred to be taller. Women also used to wear shockingly tall platform shoes when they couldn’t wear heels before men decided they needed to be taller. A couple centuries later, Louis was super into heels. It became a status symbol to wear them, and anyone without permission to do so probably knew they’d be beheaded for the fashion statement well before it happened to them. Beheading did sometimes happen to them, though. Women didn’t wear heels during this time; just men of extraordinary means and status. Women “get” to keep heels later after men give up on them because women liked them so much. It’s a tragedy, really, that women got stuck with these when men could’ve kept them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597539665502-6BNCYZSUAHHMJO4A7UBL/Untitled-design-19-4.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 TANTRUMS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1597541174892-LKVHCE9RMLLWVSQ67ZV4/05940203c93d72b6f5a339fa330c2f59.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Chapter 4 This tech didn’t exist then, obviously, but this is how “not pretty” it all was. Ross admonished me for not including the following song in place of this picture, and he’s right so I’m giving both. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/9szs66pdx46m73zbbzt6s4nmhr3cp2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fruits-on-the-bottom monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596570259763-GYO5DJLZ7US00UC2AWQ8/ouihero-1498189061434-null-HR.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fruits on the Bottoms These jars. Yoplait knows no one is buying these for the yogurt. Wanna know how I know they know? They changed the jars. I have one plain, and 3 with new and cute blue designs on them. I appreciate that they’re giving us what we want and making the jars cooler. I also know because now they sell lids for them. I just ordered. It was $12.34 with shipping for 8 of them (I wanted both colors). It’s kind of weird to work for a probiotics company and talk about Yoplait, but whatever these jars are amazeballs. CT is gonna get her way and I’m gonna buy 4 more of these because I only have 4 jars but will have 8 lids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596635851014-AZ72SX6O0Z2N6D8IVQ78/processed_20200805_084530.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fruits on the Bottoms You can see this made just a little bit. She had this with coconut yogurt, which she made me dye blue part-way through eating it because she said she couldn’t eat Ocean Water without it being the correct blue color. I’m not showing the blue version, because it really looked gross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596645973439-PBKHSUG7D2SUPXL65E39/processed_20200805_114456.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fruits on the Bottoms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596672160191-8RYGGNDL2ATD56B1QY6K/processed_20200805_190204.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fruits on the Bottoms I forgot about this on the stove until Child Tester said something about things burning. She didn’t mean this, but I sure did scurry on over to the kitchen w/ a quickness! This is the cherry stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596743754872-E1O7ELYDL7KP3MEO9SP5/processed_20200806_145404.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fruits on the Bottoms Due to my poor planning, I didn’t have the pear one left for a shot of all 3 together. I did 2 plum so you could see all three of the designs of jars I scored! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-part-3 monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596986923288-DQ30ME7S9S6N10T6REVX/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Part 3 Kirsty Hughes/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596508150039-OFN5QMBB037F0HB756U7/800px-Eastern_Mediterranean_1450.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Part 3 This is what the end of the Byzantium Empire looked like. Not pretty, mainly. The Byzantine-Ottoman wars took just over 200 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596513000249-7J7MLGZA9HNUWE97AAXJ/1024px-Vinland_Map_HiRes.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Part 3 This is the Vinland Map, presumed to represent what Leif Ericsson was up to, and this journey presumably was based on another prior Scandinavian adventurer’s journey. That guy was named Bárdi Herjólfsson, and he sighted mainland North most peopleno one seem not to know his name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596513361767-94IG2QZQX6V5XNU7VR1E/1024px-Gama_route_1.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Part 3 This was de Gama’s route, and it took from from 1497-1499 to get there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596516048388-R7KODIXSF0N5YPWVJW42/1333.970.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Part 3 Allspice. You can see how Columbus could’ve gotten confused about what he was bringing back with him. Although it doesn’t look like peppercorn, a reasonable person could extrapolate that it was a different type of peppercorn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596517506718-KL1LBJLMDVAC3LOEJME6/Map_of_Portuguese_Carreira_da_India.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Part 3 This is just what Portugal was up to in the 16th. This also leaves out their exploration of Labrador and other northern parts of our hemisphere. “Map showing the various outward and return legs of the Portuguese 'Carreira da India' ('India Run') in the 16th C” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596740529572-SGTMYFMXR3MUSK4RHY0A/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: an Origin Story, Part 3 To be honest, I didn’t expect my Getty search to do nearly so good a job at giving me the nutmeg and mace together like I asked for. This picture is done by Ian Yeo, and shows the fruit split open. That red webbing is called an aril, which is the covering of the seed. This is just like with pomegranate, where the red part is the aril and the inner white bit is the seed. Nutmeg is the seed of Myristica fragrans, and I would really like to grow this tree. I am just outside its growing zone, so I will give it 10 years for climate change to bring me the ability to grow my own mace (and nutmeg). I love love love mace, though nutmeg isn’t interesting at all to me. *Up until a few years ago, when I found out I have aphantasia, I thought people were just saying they saw things in their heads. I had no idea people could for real do that! It’s all black screens in my corner of the minds-world, so I thought this language was used metaphorically. Yes, I dream in pictures. This is common for people who have aphantasia, including those of us on the more extreme end of the spectrum. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/wg7ytfbkn5xbdmm9ezbs3t2hyl9c93 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/half-sours monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596060547766-BXMX3A4M982FTDKRMH1S/processed_20200729_163150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Half Sours I used 8 thin slices of turmeric. If I hadn’t had this, it’s unlikely I would’ve used powdered. 1 large clove garlic (should’ve been 2-3), 1 tiny dried chile arbol, 1 allspice berry, 1/8 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1/4 teaspoon coriander seed, 1/4 teaspoon dill seed, 1/8 teaspoon yellow mustard seed. I put this in a 20oz Mason jar. Whatever tannin thing you’re using should go in here at this time, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596060568802-4YIRNWRSMZLYE4TVIFA3/processed_20200729_163302.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Half Sours Followed by the 4 thickly sliced cucumbers. This is a salad bowl, for reference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596060700154-U7T9FB9OANAX0GFINJ2Q/processed_20200729_163357.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Half Sours Aren’t these jars amazing? I didn’t even know this size was a thing until Jenna gifted them to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596060720069-TVTPTOSU1VVVZM26711Y/processed_20200729_163933.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Half Sours This has around a tablespoon of pink salt. You can use any salt that doesn’t have iodine. I really needed closer to a cup and a half of water, but I didn’t add more salt. I started it like this because I had no earthly idea how much I would need and didn’t want to either toss or save leftover brine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596060737396-XPHRKOEBR7VM1X5LOYCG/processed_20200729_165230.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Half Sours I used a pickle pipe, but did not weight down my cucumbers (as you can see), because I didn’t feel like it. I remembered the next day that Every. Single. Time I pull this stunt that I get mold, so I swapped it out to a fermenting jar. Because these are sliced, I got into them at 6 days. These could take 7-10, depending on conditions and your own flavor preferences. These were perfect, though. Very mellow ferment, but with enough space for them to develop further in the fridge without getting gross if I don’t nom them all down quickly. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story-part-2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596214832718-5SKYMHO1QX9C6GRN7MHV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 Sonja Punz/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596122219244-GI2HTN93L6TOSW6GWVVG/Henry-VIII-oil-panel-artist-National-Portrait.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 This is the Henry VIII y’all probably don’t recognize. This is before he had gone mad, presumably from syphilis or the treatment they used at that time: mercury. Back then, you took mercury for 6 weeks to cure this disease, and we all know why that’s bad. Henry VIII, oil on panel by an unknown artist, c. 1520; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596122504285-QXVWU7SW2D35TMN6CEEA/HENRYVIII_1-633x885.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 This is the Henry you probably do recognize; the portrait made 15 years before his death. Ross calls him “Lord Chungus.” We are ending today’s journey before this guy enters the scene. Portrait of Henry VIII, c.1532, formerly in the collection of Warwick Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596219650938-7ML8ERUOTZT2MF6MF7ND/YuanEmperorAlbumKhubilaiPortrait.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 Kublai Khan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596206527611-Y2549EY7UC7Y1PYEHP7H/1024px-Silk_route.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 This map is from circa 1090, which is right before the First Crusades. It’s very easy to see from the lines on the map how pepper was part of these raids on the Middle East. You can think of this as very early exploitation colonial attempts from Europeans against the East, because they weren’t super good at it yet. Practice, sadly, did ultimately make perfect, as we’ll see later in the series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596216648099-6WBB524YLAAWOCEOD334/Pope-Urban-II-Council-of-Claremont.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 I’m assuming this piece is from the 13th- or 14th-century, but am not positive. Either way, it represents the Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II presiding over the Council of Clermont, 1095. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596218629362-1XXUEPPEQP26BKZ30CNC/prayerbookbishleonhardvonlaymingen1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 This is meant to represent Wimund, who by all accounts I’ve seen was hated by everyone. He was a bishop and a pirate/warlord, and eventually another bishop had enough of him and smote him. He’s from the Second Crusade era. Anyway, this guy is also called the Scourge of Scotland, so that’s really how people felt about the matter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596297533794-40SZM3LMSY9RXMDARWXI/2010917peppercorns.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 Sichuan peppercorns. These are still totally used, primarily in China, but much of their use by elites during this time is displaced by peppercorns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596296412179-KOO1RYQ0LST7FLQXMY1W/135923.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 It’s really a ginormous swath of land space that, as you can see, extends into multiple contemporary national boundaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596300623960-RNF0WWPIO3J8YG0V83GK/330px-Lisboa-Museu_Nacional_de_Arte_Antiga-Retrato_dito_de_Vasco_da_Gama-20140917.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 Vasco de Gama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1596219400335-Z9OPSLF6CWE0CXALSN9H/sqj_1504_vencie_atlas_01.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 2 Gifts to kings = status for you. This is what Part 3 is going to be all about. “A king is offered the fruits of a pepper harvest in this 15th-century illustration. (From the Livre des Merveilles du Monde, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Bridgeman Images)” https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/79bxa5ln4y6pdgy3ppn39zxc6ljhg3 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/porcupine-balls-baked-meatballs-with-rice monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595707963302-MKJE7DD78H4ECKQJWRE7/meatballs.JPG THE BACTERIA BLOG - Porcupine Balls (Baked Meatballs with Rice) You know you wanna eat these. I don’t always make sides. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/pepper-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595710317416-TE3ZKQY8NQCFDUGFLHK6/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 Tony Pham/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595779562741-U1L0YQIN6TBV3HM85HSZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 Pepper leaves. Pepper has some of the more beautiful cordate (heart-shaped) leaves out there. Milena Troponova/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595780084791-R41I6LJ12VR9E32P53Y5/1639px-India_states_and_union_territories_map.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 Kerala is at the bottom left of India. The West Ghats range through multiple states in India https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595782960697-6HLK8Z3SYV2JHSCG1HRM/main-qimg-9258325eb3a478d8957df0280f02426e.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 Western Ghats mountain range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595799164401-2H1QWJQA8QLS09ERZELF/0*IuREFmg2J8sIXRB7.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 This is what the spice trade routes looked like around Pliny’s time. Remember that motorized ships, cars, and airplanes didn’t exist during this time, so you can see why it’s so expensive to move spices around. Also expensive because quite dangerous to be a spice trader! This is, with some spices, still true today about the danger part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595796697631-8YOBV50XD447MHR4D0N9/sgzoctyzsfc0skmtoj5w.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 “John the Evangelist page from the Lindisfarne Gospels (c. 635 CE): As is common in early medieval art, the figures in this page appear flat and stylized. The bench on which John sits does not recede realistically into the space behind him. Modeling is kept to a minimum, and the clothing that John wears does not acknowledge the body beneath.” Y’all should check this whole page out, though, because there’s some astonishing art you’d probably like to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595799735505-IA3NTQLTXU2L1FC9ABG3/1280px-Italy_to_India_Route.svg.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 This is how it was basically functioning during this period, and has a lot to do with the upcoming Crusades happening at all. Looking at the map, I’m sure you can see how. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595800517722-FT5JMBB9DHA9ISIYITGA/The-Last-Kingdom-S4-Ep4-Aldhelm-and-Aethelflaed-TLK-1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 This is my favorite Aldhelm, who is not acting douchey like it appears he is without the context for this scene. This is from the 4th series of The Last Kingdom, and I’m choosing to not offer context so you might feel like watching one of my favorite shows, too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595801400320-5UMDV0UGCXIDMROORHTA/aldhelm.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Pepper: An Origin Story, Part 1 Here’s a stained glass representation of St. Aldhelm. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/jn6sb4tg2ag8man4dyd9w3tbyd4dd5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/poundcake monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595387556048-EA269QN88A57K94XGC6H/processed_20200721_135209.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Poundcake Sorry, y’all. It was this or no crumb pic. Cake was halfway gone by the time I realized that the ship to a decent picture had already sailed without me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595353501445-3NVS296KN20ZP9BFSDUU/processed_20200721_124155.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Poundcake This is right after it came out of the pan. I used coffee filters instead of parchment, and it didn’t pan as well as it usually does. Cake is a bit mangled on the sides, but we had a good time eating the bits that were stuck to it! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cucumber-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595176723983-BCKQ3W7XN310ES3D195D/cuc1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story Cucumbers! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595128723730-MKB706CK7KY658Y8QTIX/cucurbitacin-b-3d.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story Here, have a molecule. This is cucurbitacin B, the main one we’re talking about when discussing these guys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595131268067-MIA3922JS4DZ3FP0L69S/Frankish_arms-400x227.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story This is an example of their finery during this time. I showed a different picture to Ross, who sadly told me it was 8th-century. It was a much cooler picture, but alas. I didn’t explain why I was asking, though I could tell he really wanted to know because he is totally a weapons guy. I am not, typically. Except that for him, it extends to literally every weapon ever made. He seemingly knows them all, and is baffled that I nod and smile when he tells me about this or that obscure historical weapon from who knows where (wasn’t listening). I asked him once if there are weapons he doesn’t know, and after a full minute of thinking, he told me he’d struggle to tell the difference between two also obscure weapons that I don’t remember the names of, for reasons I also don’t remember (I tried that time, but failed). What baffled me was that he had to work so hard to find weapons in his brain that he didn’t feel he knew at least adequately. How does someone even know that much about anything? He knows this stuff so well that whenever possible, I used to have him come teach a 16th-century weapons class session to my kids during the semesters I taught The Three Musketeers or whatever other nonsense I was tormenting my kids with that semester that involved a need for some kind of “beyond cursory” weapons knowledge. They loved his weapons classes. Anyway, now he’s found out that somehow, despite all reason, I’m actually interested in this. So I’m doomed, y’all. Doomed. Although he read so much of my writing during grad school that he’s not-so-secretly relieved to normally not have to read anything else I’m up to now, he did end up having to review this post for me (no one was available to Zoom at that time, though Ben graciously stepped in later to do so), and he laughed when he got to this part. He said to tell y’all that the new handle on the axe is wrong, and that it should have a long, straight, pole-type handle. He had a lengthy thinking-out-loud set of commentary on the helmet, but that all culminated in him simply saying that this was a much better choice of picture than the one I really wanted, because accurate, and that these are really beautiful, well-made examples of period arms. He also said, after finishing his review, that this is “the most informative ‘I don’t know’ I’ve ever read” about this post. That’s pretty accurate, I think. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595133265609-LU8ZWRFFTW8QZQAYGLH8/Overview-of-the-Himalayan-orogeny-and-adjacent-regions-formed-at-the-southern-margin-of.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story Map! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595176472826-MDUSV54TAT62VL2DZ9DB/map-of-laputa-arthur-rackham.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story Map of Laputa by Arthur Rackham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595174175059-TK3BSKMJTRXTD9YQDNUA/Sanson_New-Mexico-and-Florida.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story For those of you who need to brush up on some of this history, here’s a map from 1656, almost 100 years after failed English colonial attempts. “Nicolas Sanson’s map of New Mexico and Florida offered Europeans their first detailed view of the American Southwest, and for decades convinced many that California was an island.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595176798474-I6ZVVF18C6AKJFH8EFRE/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story English cucumber, still partly in plastic. Charles Deluvio/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595177049835-0QY8X852SK5RKBCQ8VHT/image.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story Glass cucumber straightener. No lies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595175800806-VZQDHN4STS3R2HGNW0HE/H4724-L78988413.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story Heinz? Legit marketing genius. These are trading cards. He also put out keychains, bookmarks, and all sorts of other cool cucumber/pickle-related ephemera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1595177485430-7HYUX73YDE0V52FRZUL4/cucumber-varieties-good-eggs.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Cucumber: An Origin Story A few kinds of cucumbers. I have a tiny lemon cucumber plant growing currently on one of my stunted tomato plants. This plant volunteered to root itself from a pot of plants onto the actual soil because it realized before I did that the pot of plants was going to die before cucumbers happened. It’s now in flower, and I hope that I can avoid the neglect that would kill this tough little guy, too! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/y2cahzgnbp499cl6ekwbpy5b7r2zf4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/brunsviger monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594571143451-820N6H0HADB3KLKR4GBP/processed_20200711_195004.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger I think Sarah gave me these plates in ‘06? Somewhere around then. STILL HAVE THEM! This brunsviger is too light. In Denmark, they tend to use dark muscovado sugar for this, and I had only light brown sugar. Just be aware of that, even if you don’t really care about authenticity. The difference between brown and muscovado sugar really comes down to how they’re processed. Brown is white sugar that’s had molasses sprayed back onto it. I think Domino still does it the old (muscovado) way, but otherwise all American brown sugars are really white sugar. They’ll be labelled otherwise if they aren’t. Muscovado sugar is the OG brown sugar, that has molasses stripped from it in stages, and when it’s the right molasses content, the sugar goes off for the rest of its process before hitting the store. I really should do a sugar origin story one day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594572644793-UOOWU02WMM07DXP4QSKR/Screenshot+2020-07-12+at+11.49.56+AM.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger Yep, this is a screen shot from Google Maps. It seemed most efficient. That wee island on the other side of Sweden is also part of Denmark, and is an island called Bornholm, where my friend comes from. It’s the westernmost part of Denmark, and has been renowned in recent years for its cuisine. Zealand is the island Copenhagen is on, and the bit jutting out from Germany is the mainland portion of Denmark. Denmark has a lot of castles, which I hope one day to visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594508859683-HLRPWPKXGR158KJ5771G/processed_20200710_173608.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger Look at all that glory. I thought it had peaked when it got to here… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594508878705-02T1470RM1PSEYUB04GV/processed_20200710_184913.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger It had not. Bake time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594508900734-T6J5O1RVQXG2WYMS2K6Z/processed_20200710_191508.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594508922115-GYDE0ZCO9ZDRFD73GTXK/processed_20200711_175757.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger Gentle tease your dough into your pan. Be nice to it. It worked hard to rise for you. I can really never decide how I feel about this pan. I’ve been engaging in that internal debate for around 15 years now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594508941860-IABP6QISHATQHX2YVI42/processed_20200711_175803.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger I really don’t care what anyone says. There is not, has never been, nor ever will be a substitute for butter. Because butter. I love butter. Sometimes I eat it plain. CT does this too sometimes, and Ross gives me accusatory looks as though to imply I taught this to her. I did not, but she comes by it honestly nonetheless. Also? This picture looks kind of like a reverse egg, due to the reflection of the overhead light in the butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594508970662-FSK3XTA63OP2VLV83YSB/processed_20200711_180306.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger After that, make your caramel. You do this by whisking the brown sugar into the butter. Apologies for the mess. I really was eating dinner when she rightly asserted that if we didn’t get on top of this omgritenow, I would push it off until the next day and she wouldn’t get to eat any for dessert or for breakfast with her egg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594509023198-MY78K53CKS8ZRS2B4S8O/processed_20200711_180405.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger Deep, but don’t punch through or hit the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594509043315-XZZRZA6NM4Z0DIKNN6BC/processed_20200711_180535.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger Pour that caramel on. Actually? Don’t, unless you’re using the 9x13 I said you should above. My wrist was killing me, so I forgot that I made all the caramel instead of half before pouring it on. What I learned are the following: 1. Brunsviger always needed more caramel, and no one ever knew. I was shocked by this. 2. It didn’t need that much more. 1.25-1.5x the recommended caramel would be perfect. If it gets doubled, you will need to really be a sweets kind of guy to be able to handle the richness and sweetness for more than a couple of bites. CT is one such guy, so this too-much-caramel business was an easy sell in my house. She’s been hoovering this cake. She told me, “it’s better than bread, and it’s better than cake, and it’s better than anything other than brownies. Because you know, mama, nothing is better than brownies. But this is almost as good as brownies.” I didn’t even know she felt that way about brownies. Glad she takes her job seriously enough to give detailed reviews of everything I’m making for work! 3. If you use “that much more,” it’s best if you let it sit a day or two before eating. Then you don’t have to be mad about sweets to eat more than a couple of bites, and can instead eat your whole piece. I took one for the team here and tested this out for y’all. ;) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594571021453-W8VUH737P077TLF5OF4G/processed_20200711_185258.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger Bake it for 25-30 minutes. If you forgot the timer, as I may have, you will smell it when it’s nearly done. It’ll smell like bread and candy intertwined. Once it’s done (tester will come out clean, also, per normal cakes), put it on a rack. Don’t touch it. It’s in the lava stage right now, and you’re going to get hurt if you touch it or try to eat it. Trust that I have tested how painful it would be for you, and learn from my mistakes. I took a video of the lava stage, because it comes out with the caramel still actively boiling, but Squarespace appears to be only okay with videos that have URLs attached to them. I had no URL to offer, so be aware that those bubbles are happening in the moment as the cake is still boiling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594571089754-7EE8QDR671E1LXOOHAM7/processed_20200711_185833.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger You really do want to let it cool for a while. It’s still slightly warm in this picture, but is ready to eat. It’s best when it’s still a bit warm, but still delicious room temp. Also excellent with coffee. Note that if you use crazy amounts of caramel, you’ll have a mess underneath, because some of the butter will separate and also some of the caramel will get down there. You may not be able to get it out of the pan in once piece if you didn’t use a silpat or parchment. I still had to cut around the cake to separate the caramel stuck to the wall of the pan from the caramel stuck to the cake, and it was still hard to get out of the pan. Normally I serve it in the pan, and I will likely go back to that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594571118641-57EYGEIPSG6D87RJ4NZY/processed_20200711_194913.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Brunsviger Time to get your nom-nom-nomivore on! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/poultry-theres-a-lot-of-weird-here monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589303057305-8HQEYU6KOGZO42QUT4HD/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Chicken: There's a Lot of Weird Here William Moreland/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589303212546-F4TDAUKDJUSR1FXPQD11/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Chicken: There's a Lot of Weird Here I just really like the look on its face! Jason Leung/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594231817334-F09ZCHPWJE81CQX47LPI/giblets.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Chicken: There's a Lot of Weird Here These are turkey, but you get the point. Note that it’s common to leave out the kidneys. Left clockwise: neck, gizzard, heart, liver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594233508436-5OYB6OO1AMP18RFGYIUD/Bird_Gastro_System.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Chicken: There's a Lot of Weird Here This will explain things more easily. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ldh4da3yceykyxnpbhzehpxrew5bmk monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593890041091-9WIHLSB1KY5NGGDHE5LC/milk+kefir+stages.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! Left picture: the ideal time to strain it Middle: “Danger, Will Robinson!” You’re getting really close to overfermentation here. This is usually when I strain it, because I often forget I was even fermenting things to begin with. This will result in a more sour kefir. Right: completely fermented. There is literally no more food there, and the grains will be well integrated into the curd (as you know), difficult to strain, with incredibly tart kefir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593890121327-K4AJZNEGJTEF3FYA7BBF/whey+bubbles+top.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! Thank you for this picture, Anna! Although we normally talk about looking for whey bubbles at the bottom of your vessel, it doesn’t always work this way. It usually does, which is why we always talk about it, but sometimes the bubbles are at the top or somewhere other than top/bottom. In this picture, it’s all top action. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/kohlrabi-kimchi monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594144290409-B6XQHDMX9AT6QXOND6TD/kimchi10.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594144498609-AO35Z2DJLQR96W9ESWU6/kimchi2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594144626468-ZRF198JVWUS9CQIA4416/kimchi4.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594144785245-30LA21IC8AZKOTSGXGM0/kimchi3.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594145074088-JIE34D8V6QLVLJDEADBZ/kimchi5.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594144925373-ODREXIXI48DOJOPYD6UK/kimchi6.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594145202777-DAAISGVRHHONS9PS3T29/kimchi7.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594145278561-QUJT6G17J1OAPSCH7CMK/kimchi8.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594145328955-LXDLE1N4DURQMHUXOWTF/kimchi9.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1594144761270-YYI2GW3DP3W0XZTU4UZL/kimchi.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Guest Post by Dave H: Kohlrabi Kimchi https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/kimchi-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593894938458-KJAPHBXLJRFSKD6KV33I/Gochugaru.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story This is Korean chile powder, also called gochugaru. Gochugaru literally translates to chile pepper powder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593906843632-3EU0F6J36H5YZ70C0L5V/processed_20200704_175443.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story This is the baechu (Napa) kimchi in my fridge. It is not a pogi kimchi, because I did not leave the head of cabbage intact. I cut the carrots big, for textural reasons. I admit with zero shame that although I have gochugaru in my house, I use the kimchi kit we sell for my own kimchi and that of the friends I make it for. It’s a massive time saver and is ridiculously tasty, which I need in my life more than I can articulate. Poor Sabrina always has to send me new kits, since I like ours too much to mix the various ingredients up myself. Unrelatedly, I just noticed that I see in this picture that Child Tester did not wipe down the table after dinner as she was meant to. Busted! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593892135568-8XSD9XF3UDUGT78VTF5V/earlywriting.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story These pictures indicate linguistic history of kimchi in Korea in 963CE. There is dispute as to whether kimchi was adapted from Japanese or Chinese vegetable preservation techniques or if kimchi has a uniquely Korean origin. The authors of this study make a convincing argument that kimchi is, in fact, uniquely Korean. Many other studies also clearly demonstrate that kimchi can only be uniquely Korean in its origin. The work pictured here is different from the Chinese one mentioned above, and is written around 700 years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593904861608-7JX00C0L2OIO4F6RWPI2/Historical-writings-showing-A-jo-ju-referring-to-kimchi-and-B-sung-song-referring_W640.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story “Historical writings showing: (A) jo (菹) referring to kimchi; and (B) sung (菘) referring to cabbage in the Hunmongjahoe (訓蒙字會) by Choi (崔世珍; 1343)” (Ibid). Cabbage? Check. Kimchi? Check. All from 1343CE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593907284876-9KHPGNZ8PNVU51NC6K9X/5216570508916.image.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kimchi: An Origin Story I didn’t know I needed a kimchi fridge until I started writing this post, but I do. From everything I read, LG makes some particularly nice ones. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/9tzpshztp4hs87pjn6sz3p6g7y4as7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593371372370-WL0KQM9SUDPJ73VNGF4M/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/rye-chips monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593620421924-65SPKV1I8KGRBENRN73N/processed_20200701_111650.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Rye Chips His hand looks freakishly large here, due to the weird angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593364452975-XWL1UGH27D5FDI2EZNNM/processed_20200628_121159.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Rye Chips Ideally, you all won’t be doing this while injured, as these should all be roughly the same length and thickness, but i’m giving myself extra grace on this front since they're being cut up. They also should be smoother. You can probably see the order in which I shaped these. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593367038624-CSDQB5LYQODM4EASC4NN/processed_20200628_125702.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Rye Chips They should look basically like this, but they will be a little darker if you bake them fully. Remember also that because I’m using dark rye, my final product will be darker than yours is if you’re using regular rye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593613061888-7AGW92QZ4SLELF03MJ5N/processed_20200701_090903.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Rye Chips Those are pretty just as little bread slices and would work well topped with something as a not-twice baked type of snack! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593620444992-O8EZZNNXEVF0IJ0R1N9M/processed_20200701_111957.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Rye Chips https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/honey-an-origin-story-part-3 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593012395097-EIT91FRBJBAWJU40KHWS/HuberHive1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 This is the Leaf Hive, also called the Huber Hive. As you can see, it opens like a book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593012537758-Z8XJUPTEU52S9VAHV7PU/leaf+hive.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 Contemporary adaptation of a Leaf Hive. I rather like this one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593013510445-YFQ4RG4T31PMYWUSMYHK/LangstrothHive.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 Here is what the components are like, with the queen at the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593013614516-HWSI8PP7SV71GD1A5EIV/lh.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 Langstroph hives! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593013677104-O5DXFER1A3UDQBCRILUE/2985.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 With people involved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593289806963-4LYPV3PVKSF1CJLLAT3G/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 Comb honey. Hunter Trahan/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593298388317-2STPLK0XTUDD7WB0G4ZG/61WM5lztpwL._AC_SX522_.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 If your honey bear cost $2 and came with honey in it, it’s not all honey in there. It’s worth noting that from most countries of origin (real or purported), testing honey is not mandated by federal law, so the price is the best indicator if you’re not buying local honey. This is also why local honey costs so much more - you’re paying its actual price rather than the price of honey infused or flavored syrup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1593298560188-6DV33B2FE4NH4AO0WIMQ/honey3-1rp8aze.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 3 This is Hawaiian kaiwe honey, which I have never tried also really want to. It is naturally this color. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/4azclbrg9fkgy96mdcexa3fnx4gbra monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590202409388-O8ZWRLCH7WB4DJ0Q0W85/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/bacon-cheddar-and-jalapeo-beer-bread monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592605650709-0UWYFGKHJ236YNLWJ93P/processed_20200619_172412.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Bacon-Cheddar and Jalapeño Beer Bread You likely can tell that I took bread out of a hand while it was being eaten for this pic. The person was okay with this and thought I'd taken one before the cut the loaf open. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/honey-an-origin-story-part-2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592407323526-NZVG64GWKRX0L9KVRN2U/WINTER_GREENERY_SAMPLE-1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 This represents the Melissae, which are basically (oversimplification) bee/honey goddesses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592689715742-OX5X4UJIZEHOZPBZDVY4/how-the-bee-got-its-sting-1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 This is another rendering of Zeus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592419386001-KZUDBC0N5X0C359D62FW/bee+harvest.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 Bee harvesting in Mesolithic Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592418701074-011PIXXXAJFP375CKXZM/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 This image is of the base of a funerary cone. It’s housed at the Louvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592419888170-QZKI7IAO6FP9VG9DLSFQ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 Tel Rehov apiary. I should like to visit this one day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592496818086-TI1MBIEQM0XGN23WNQZ0/Balli-Cerez.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 Honey soaked nuts. I am not motivated to make my jars look this pretty, even when they’re gifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592690139485-VVXSFB7JIA5ZV4MQPHN2/330px-Shennong_bencao_jing.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 This is from a version of Shennong Bencaojing (Shen-nung Pen-tsao Ching) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592496522940-Y2HJIOPF1IPX401UICVP/Planet%2BBee%2BGoddess.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 This is Brahmi, a bee goddess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592668814905-QA57V0LYDN21KVWDVJT3/kintu.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 I have special affection for myths and folk tales that involve rainbow bridges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1592669679675-4TS8ZBDWMJC0DFDCC3UW/Mictlantecutli-and-Quetzalcoatl-Codex-Borgia.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 2 This image depicts a portion of the story above. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/6gfpm6zbnwdzmhdyaw487kk7ex2d7l monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590202409388-O8ZWRLCH7WB4DJ0Q0W85/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/russian-spelt-loaf monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585750390873-6NIFT4DIB9YBJHA6HUP6/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Russian Spelt Loaf https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/honey-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591810920410-OPE15P9FX0KVL0V22KC5/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 1 Amelia Bartlett/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591810986601-R4ZE1SY9NMUBKGNV1AC2/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 1 What a cute little guy. She looks to be on something minty! Roberto Lopez/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591811838978-ZLGCVE9EYY4COMC2R3YL/1626px-Apis_cerana%2C_Asiatic_honey_bee_-_Khao_Yai_National_Park.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 1 The eastern honey bee (Apis cerana)! This little lady is out and about, seeing the sights. Their native range spans from portions of eastern Russia down throughout southeast Asia, portions of the Near East, and the Indian subcontinent. They were introduced to some other areas of the world by humans, and are now considered an invasive species in Australia due to its displacement of other, native pollinators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591812829285-T14369F56MIJQWXQ8LO1/koschevnikovs+Honeybee.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 1 Koschevnikov’s honey bee (Apis koschevnikovi) is native to Indonesian and Malasian areas. These also can play nicely with the easterns above. Their range is dwindling due to human encroachment in the evergreen rainforests they occupy. Not tons is known about these bees relative to others, but they are able to coexist with eastern honeybees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591814622569-7120IFXN5EXWYM4Z9Y5F/Apis_mellifera_subsp_scutellata%2C_Phakama%2C_a.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 1 African bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) is a subspecies of western honey bees, and are from Africa, which I bet you guessed! Specifically, their natural range runs throughout central, eastern, and western Africa. If you go south, you get different bees. These little guys are 50% of the much-feared Africanized bees. The other half are regular honey bees. It should be noted that these Africanized bees are really not any more violent than western honey bees, but rather simply respond to threats more quickly and with more soldiers. The Africanized bees apparently are redomesticated and a popular choice for beekeepers in Brazil. Didn’t know! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591814921430-2QC0KGF6L9W0GLQJTDS8/ApisLaboriosa1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 1 The Himalayan giant honey bee (Apis dorsata laboriosa) are found only in the Hymalayan Mountain range. I am listing these ones because these guys are the biggest, measuring upwards of 3cm (1.2”) for a single bug. You can get high from the spring honey they make, because it has a lot of rhododendron pollen. A single hive can contain upwards of 60kg (130#) of honey! Need some really big bees to need that much honey for a hive! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591820134958-J2ZXOBH4EV9QQ65NM1TN/beneficial-39B-GCMGA1196_red_%26_black_mason_bee.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Honey: An Origin Story, Part 1 The red and black mason wasp is my personal favorite pollinator. Although they can sting (and do sting food for their babies), it takes an act of the gods to get them to do it for defense. They are super friendly little critters, and if they get to know you they will sit on your knee or laptop if you’re working outside during their breaks. Most of my garden is pollinated by bumblebees, an assortment of wasps, butterflies, and flies. We get honey bees in my garden, but my assumption is that the industry of all the others isn’t leaving much behind for them because they’re less common than basically any other native pollinator (or other invasives) that I can think of. Less than 10% of my garden is ornamental, the rest being comprised of food and medicinal plants. Oh yeah! That wasp in the picture is male. The females have red shapes on their heads instead of cream. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/28rxbrfkpxjz4bxe98djp2zc8rabm2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590202409388-O8ZWRLCH7WB4DJ0Q0W85/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/new-zealand-rye-pancakes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591565079569-0VV0ALK56Z5WRPAIKXV5/processed_20200607_161449.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - New Zealand Rye Pancakes This is my favorite pan. It’s way too small for much of what I need a pan to do, but it’s lovely and reliable. This is one of my 19th-century cast iron pieces, and my grief will be everlasting if something amiss should happen to it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591565060263-780IJWBAHUSYIT2QYP5I/processed_20200607_161520.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - New Zealand Rye Pancakes https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/fruit-ferments monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591024593382-HCUUW8BQSXGMLMEGKRJI/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits Markus Spiske/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591024865684-USFF273U4E68R1VW1W1Z/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits Vivek Doshi/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1591029217568-UTSZ5PPBWW15E2YBLCKP/processed_20200601_112711.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Fermenting Fruits These are honey strawberries. I love that plate. My friend Farah sent it to me. I also love that spoon, which Ross whittled for Child Tester. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/f6lyc54gct3kjzbtzdfl2knnmmyy4m monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590202409388-O8ZWRLCH7WB4DJ0Q0W85/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dutch-baby-aka-american-pfannkuchen monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590197446166-EM73XUQ350SQYBUJV3S4/processed_20200507_174810.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - BH's Dutch Baby AKA American Pfannkuchen! I’m not wholly certain you can see that this isn’t level, but it’s not level. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-save-backup-cultures monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433131560-O3PMEPUPET8LTGODAHVC/processed_20200525_135245.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Other than the odds and ends on the far right, this is all my dairy, sourdough, and water kefir. Some of these are still being converted over from wet to dry, for reasons that are now clear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581874511826-YLH8YUFJ5R05RZA4K44O/IMG_6387.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433354495-147MLDIRIMG2SAYMA1P2/processed_20200525_140015.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Milk kefir on the right, water on the left. This is my preferred brand of breast milk bags. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433245185-DQWG19COF68U612L3ZYB/processed_20200525_135329.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Frozen ale yeast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433282581-HGLXAQMLW1677358O3AQ/processed_20200525_135559.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Room temperature ale yeast. I’ll find out if it’s dead next time I go to use it, and if it is, so be it! Those are tinctures and jellies in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433321558-N8KMP5MKK0PNT43526D6/processed_20200525_135646.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures This is room temperature-stored starter and krausen from an elderberry and wild plum mead that’s still in its big jug and will be two years old in (and ready to bottle!) in October or November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590433114955-94E6VWERQ1MYKKXYQ7H6/processed_20200525_135150.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Right to left: kombucha (tiny piece of SCOBY but mostly starter tea on top of jun hotel, home-cured and marinated olives (look for posts on this in the fall and winter), red wine vinegar (this is malbec; it’s the only one I really love). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590434184187-RHSKKCX9U1AXPCKQGVGD/processed_20200525_141533.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Save Backup Cultures Lemonade bottle is the kombucha, and it’s there waiting for until I can see the friend I saved it for. Water kefir is the rest of those swing tops. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gskyf52566ma4a3ta7r2krpzrmzfk4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590202409388-O8ZWRLCH7WB4DJ0Q0W85/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/braised-celery-and-norwegian-cod monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590437821558-9Y28QJPKL2HIAR6WK9OB/do+what+you+want.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Wild Norwegian Cod with Braised Celery and Potatoes Real talk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590437625164-KF1YGY9CLDJTPKFVNYP9/processed_20200525_150740.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Wild Norwegian Cod with Braised Celery and Potatoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590437656541-R9DRWXN0XGKLHF94SR1J/processed_20200525_151155.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Wild Norwegian Cod with Braised Celery and Potatoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590442982400-45OIVF6M6HR51HP5F2XC/processed_20200525_164127.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Wild Norwegian Cod with Braised Celery and Potatoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590445417792-XZ1XRJK9B383EUY2JIOQ/processed_20200525_170624.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Wild Norwegian Cod with Braised Celery and Potatoes https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/celery-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590073918450-LC4X1ADRU8K0KF2W24QE/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Celery: An Origin Story Apparently celery is not popular enough to merit many pictures of it by itself. My Imperfect Foods delivery isn’t coming until after this post is done, so this works perfectly! Kelly Sikkema/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590151279234-4AQIRR7Y00TUJC5TJCVL/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Celery: An Origin Story I hadn’t seen this ad, but it came with the caption: “Broadside for Paine’s celery compound in 1883. Cocaine was one of the ingredients, and the compound was claimed to cure a wide range of ills, from scrofula to ‘female weakness.’ (David Karp)” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590158984204-EKX2QQ90OEJG857Y5FHE/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Celery: An Origin Story Celeriac. It’s a weird looking root. Yuval Zukerman/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1590162007639-GRX901PVE1ZJWL9STI7E/291959.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Celery: An Origin Story This is a great book, per the entire series, if you don’t know it! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mg4pzyc52nlke2ehkfzc476bs5scdf monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/tuna-casserole-runny-activation-batch-yogurt-edition monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589685694309-8OEG77RCH3GM1ZDJCMPF/processed_20200508_184423.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Tuna Casserole: Runny Activation Batch Yogurt Edition! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-i-really-bake-when-im-not-baking-for-yall monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675141796-KAMLFIXIB2L3E516ZXKN/processed_20200516_163451.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675169829-X2AE1HAK3KPUCYEP78MD/processed_20200516_163534.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I really just swiped my hand through the middle of the flour. You can probably tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675222009-FRPSV7CCC66XY23AJKFH/processed_20200516_163637.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675249883-Q968G8T2OEW6IWQVGYFU/processed_20200516_163758.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Randomly decided there should be cheese in the loaf. That is a spatula, also. While I often prefer to mix everything with just my hands, spatulas are the next best thing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675273299-T5P84OTUC9GNNVJDRJ6O/processed_20200516_163838.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Can’t have too much cheese! There’s probably a good cup or so in here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675293691-DE3ZPWCQ3C1MLWWZGPIR/processed_20200516_163959.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I am not the beer drinker in this family. There were more Lonestars, but this was the better size for my loaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675315611-NWW2XQEYBSW4WR2WCULE/processed_20200516_164042.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Literally added the beer, put saran on, and left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675388477-RGD3XCRJZ9PCFP7MZ032/processed_20200516_182138.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster That’s not true. Standard is 15-30. For someone with hands the same size as your average 10 year old possesses, I sure do fat finger a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675433853-HZ3NZRFDGK9BURUOF319/processed_20200516_182221.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I’m too short to knead with the bowl on the counter. Kitchens are not made for short people. Also, I really love this show, and it’s excellent to bake with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675458781-4ELYGXNZDU4QHMU51DKY/processed_20200516_182254.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Noticeable change in elasticity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675480164-JNJ47R54OFEE10EWAP4A/processed_20200516_182310.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Somewhat smoother, also more elasticity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675505171-NW8CTIZ4YBO0TZUQOMEW/processed_20200516_182340.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Ditto ditto. When the pizza shows up, you cover your dough and go eat! I ate a lot. Child Tester (age 7) impressively ate all but 1 slice of her 10” pizza! I was shocked! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675545434-BG9DY2HENBWTYFXRJC30/processed_20200516_182602.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster No really. I could go for a nap about now. I too ate a whole lot. 3 slices, a bunch of fried mushrooms, and a salad. I don’t feel pukey, but close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675573291-406SGB49N3ZQDWS9Y1NJ/processed_20200516_183112.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster See above notes with my estimates on how much of what is in here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675602878-ROH64KWZPSZT89UKVBZF/processed_20200516_183727.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Huge difference 5 minutes makes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675631769-PB3RQM6NRCDWOQQZZR0V/processed_20200516_184330.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589675660022-TLW8EHSO03ZSWJRWMZB7/processed_20200516_184613.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster For real. I am fully aware that there’s spilt pizza cheese there. I look at it daily, judge myself silently, and close the oven door before telling myself, “I’ll do that later.” Meh. Not like anyone is coming over to look at it, anyway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681435804-OSY9SCKCLXBPT2UGT72I/processed_20200516_205409.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster I know you can’t tell, but it did grow. Not as much as it would have, had it had a proper rise and sufficient kneading, but good enough for me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681456177-GTF7FA9NRHEZ8E5DPM8H/processed_20200516_205541.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster How exactly does one lose a napkin holder? Did it get purged and I don’t remember? If so, why would I purge it? Rice flour is the more common flour for bannetons. I normally use whatever I’m baking with, but… it was here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681478193-1SE8VRLO8HUEG0CNPY0I/processed_20200516_205629.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Jack provides an exceptional tutorial on this. I may have used this in other articles. Jack is adorable with all his boyish enthusiasm, which makes it much easier to pay attention. Second shapings give loaves better structure and rise. They also help to compensate for lazy kneading. I think it’s clear, though, that all I’m really trying to do is have a loaf in the house while I get the Berkshire ready for lardy cake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681508756-PWFHNOERZUTPFZ4VCZWE/processed_20200516_205715.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster If you put them in these (or bowls, or whatever you’re using that isn’t just parchment paper to hold your dough during second rise) upside down, it’s easier to get them out and into the oven. Lot less risk of degassing your loaf right after you’ve taken (or kind of, in my case) the time to rise it. I have no expectation of a fantastic rise from this one, but we’ll see what happens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589681534124-G45LN3LU6VODQLZ590UV/processed_20200516_205812.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster This is why I do almost everything on my laptop. My phone typing is nearly unintelligible. Translation: “It gets an hour to do second rise. I would normally do at least twice that, but I’m tired.” I was tired before I started this adventure, if we’re being fair. I fantasize daily about 12-hour sleeps. I miss those a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589684353984-X6YGYI8KZ7NJ45CTOXQ0/processed_20200516_215738.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster You can also tell that it just hasn’t risen much. Again, I expected this. I also still don’t care. I’m looking for delicious, not tall. Although I definitely will judge a loaf by its crust, I tend not to consider height. Once the oven beeps, this is going in no matter what. It will still be delicious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589686914226-4KVQYAOZDGH51P95PZFO/processed_20200516_222946.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster It’s here that I decided this was not going to be a photo series that only appears in the FB group, and that it’d be more useful if it were accessible to all. You can tell because I am basically not captioning these pictures anymore and am instead using more text text. As opposed to photo text. I’m not sure if there are different terms other than “text text” and “photo text”/”captions.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589687779194-BKID260VUVTH2ZJVX09M/processed_20200516_225512.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster NOT DONE!!! Turn that bad boy around and let it cook longer! You can clearly see that I didn’t cut that S properly. It should have been deeper, which would have stopped the split that happened in its middle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589688831202-GVXL2RWDQABQXI3IJODU/processed_20200516_231123.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster 15 minutes later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589724830527-ZWD8R87Z849WJBZNM7R3/processed_20200517_090857.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589727355326-YKKJ2X06DU15MCSTT9O8/processed_20200517_095110.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Looks better. My oven has some serious hot spots. You can tell by the uneven browning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589727516832-S1XSVQG5JF6YJR6131TH/processed_20200517_095724.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster Compacted crumb is unbaked crumb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589730477994-75K5FC8DS4D1YNX3ZW1O/processed_20200517_104613.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How I REALLY Bake, When I'm Not Baking For Y'all: A Tale of Fixable Disaster https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/mrbk7dh5rj4b7sw4ylgea4gpn99kb7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588989930953-NXNGACYREVSE6D35RK7W/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/labneh-delicious-yogurt-cheese-of-yes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588260923018-ZJ2CLPTTLVZ8MZ3BB0MA/processed_20200402_072712.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Labneh: Delicious Yogurt Cheese of Yes I don’t know when I will have pretty pictures again, but I suspect it’ll be when school is happening outside my house! As you can see, though, basically cream cheese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588260950106-8MIXAGUKWO280F9L56RH/processed_20200403_112156.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Labneh: Delicious Yogurt Cheese of Yes That’s za’atar on there. I had to get these pics on the sly from above their heads. Really could’ve used an invisibility cloak for this, because did get both caught and fussed at! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588260973901-6WYA75CUMIN3FAQMN9PG/processed_20200403_113020.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Labneh: Delicious Yogurt Cheese of Yes This photo represents what the Child Tester had to say about it - finger lickin’ good! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dry-beans-part-2-what-do-i-make-with-these monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588879681832-QHL07KLSN51QGU08Z6FS/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dry Beans, Part 2: What do I MAKE With These? One can never have too many baskets. Never. Elias Sorey/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1589113248099-CDQFWREOFE92Q8CYBMIF/forgetmenot.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dry Beans, Part 2: What do I MAKE With These? These are forget-me-nots, in case you didn’t know there was a flower for them. I haven’t told Child Tester about these, since there’s no real space in the garden for them right now. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/yhmn88776bs9ankxnwl8aphf7tezys monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588374395382-O466BHRUUNAA9JGZAAGL/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/sourdough-baguette monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588260769422-CEC5AYWRZ2PU3HQWGYH8/processed_20200420_223009.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Baguette Quarantine baking also appears to mean you never get a good picture of the final product. This time, I was the primary heathen involved in destroying that opportunity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588260822612-YXGWO8WO4F10OL924H0R/processed_20200420_232505.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Sourdough Baguette You can see the scoring issue in those middle loaves, I’m sure. 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I feel like BBQ is on the menu for my next #takeouttuesday now! Jacob Stone/Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1588467691116-AYZ9R94UB0WTSX64IT12/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dry Beans, Part 1: How Do I Cook These?! Legit, I often would wonder if she were switched at birth if she didn’t so look like him! But somewhere, there’s got to be a Tuscan she got her bean craze from! 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My heathens don’t wait for posed pics when it comes to sharlotka! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1587143437814-JE2WP8VMRNZ2YCFYVHV7/processed_20200416_165947.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Peach and Blueberry Sharlotka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1587143417505-DKLXDHOLWCIG1N28S5S2/processed_20200416_170120.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Peach and Blueberry Sharlotka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1587143396938-PT1BO8TICSI7P7BWVL90/processed_20200416_175925.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Peach and Blueberry Sharlotka https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/botched-breads monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586974158117-W9Q0DQUVGX6A8WI231YU/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997438133-LR3EZSAM71W89E3W2144/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997538271-CBQIOS04GWOX4B09N6NL/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586997872038-IQQ3OSVTKEM4S1UPWYIZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Botched Breads! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/2ha4rmbknl37889n698xa6ebpjez7m monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585013129462-C5JOYK3R89FQWF5U5Y77/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/simply-egyptian-sourdough-starter-recipe monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585750227938-FR3ZPL8VDLFA3D54W4K7/processed_20200326_160923.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Simple Egyptian Sourdough Starter Recipe https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/dair-questions-milk-substitutions monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586368766484-3O86XKPUW7E18WSX6GAP/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Milk, Butter, and Cream Substitutions Y’all remember the good ol’ days of months gone by, when dairy shelves still had dairy on them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586371337427-I6SKAO01GCEJR2SOIIWH/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Milk, Butter, and Cream Substitutions I want to eat this right now. My mouth and soul’s opinion is that there is no replacement for butter if you’re trying to make croissants. You’re just gonna need to wait, because you’ll cry less if you do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586373116800-HLLVZ5BME3FYGR1FQ2IM/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Milk, Butter, and Cream Substitutions Yaaaaaaas. The lifebloooooood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586373491572-7T17BRZIY6628GSJATZS/buttermilk.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Milk, Butter, and Cream Substitutions If you didn’t know, this is a great book, even if you can’t use it in your baking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586380910672-82D0YM7IGY4SBNYMMOKW/vegan+milk+flavors.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Milk, Butter, and Cream Substitutions This super handy chart I took a screen shot of gives a bit more info on alternative milk options! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586381502184-5HM83OZ5RC2X30WA4APU/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Milk, Butter, and Cream Substitutions ‘tis all you need, plus a bit of water, for milk! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/4kfp8zdh9662d9sp3rbmhab6t63c4b monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585013129462-C5JOYK3R89FQWF5U5Y77/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ischia-sourdough-starter-ciabatta monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583352039622-TU7NHTIXNPF0KRUWTOBM/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ischia Sourdough Ciabatta https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/milk-a-how-to monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586030040919-1OQRC1LG71A5KAMNZOVU/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions As though by magic, Covid-19 has transformed simple pictures of eggs in cartons into food porn! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586028879401-F71VJ65FKI5AT350YVCD/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions Use the juice for your baking adventures, then roast the beans at 450F/220C/Gas Mark 8 for 15-30 minutes for some lovely, crunchy, leblebi! Cloves or just salt and pepper are popular spice options for this treat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586029524258-S8XYWAE56VGT4OJNCOGV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions These here are a type of flax flower, which is what produces your seeds! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586029928393-M1FVPWTNYSJSV1RZW4ZZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions If you’re cooler than me and like bananas, here’s the start of a beautiful friendship between bananas and your baked goods! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586030602928-B2D1Y6CPEXRCAERR4SWX/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions Despite my generalized dislike of the texture of non-fried tofu, I really would like someone to put a container of this salad in front of my door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586033254192-0LR2L5K0HK8BU3TOYWOM/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions Dulce de leche - the very very most yes thing you can do with sweetened condensed milk, other than replacing eggs with it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586033116305-ZW3Y99S8OP6G5K7LO3YH/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1586033398088-6G0DGSSDLAPT2AXBOP0N/egg+replacer+chart.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Dairy Questions: Egg Substitions A roundup of some of these options (and a couple not covered) from Pintrest! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ky3dzyr56rp3kcbmrd5bpfb32rymab monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585013129462-C5JOYK3R89FQWF5U5Y77/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gluten-free-rye-bread monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585167123380-Z0E4VUDRBB9NH579B3KK/processed_20200323_111740.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread Sorry for the quality of the pics, y’all. It was that or no pics at all because family was going in right then! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585108587198-0VLZHKVCQW4WTJKITS5F/OH+HELL+NO.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread I love this woman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585172154366-I4P01MRMKCA0I7YBJ876/Resized_20200323_142134.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread More cheese crumbled than bread. I ate this one over the board so y’all could see for yourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585167095380-6I5HJZANZPVTQ2YWRHH4/Resized_20200323_111257.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten-Free "Rye" Bread https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/resources-for-the-home-cook-part-2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585534422816-GWOBLXCU82MI25KHZ6Q0/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 2 Yet another kitchen I’d like as my daily! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585617374636-PC80YSR0DQBHCR2XY2U8/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 2 This is a legitimately interesting tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585619382210-MWEXNU952YIW18X7C7AZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 2 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/b7p5b37axj8fl9fb4wwten3zd9ch3k monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585013129462-C5JOYK3R89FQWF5U5Y77/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585513474067-8JW94Z7L69U4CBVQSOLM/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie I only eat dairy in cheese and butter forms if I’m not testing a product, but I feel confident the addition of passionfruit could get me to quickly change my tune on that! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585514495010-B7OA878A2RRPOQ49CEUV/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie This may legitimately be the saddest bread picture I’ve ever seen, because it is so real life right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585515784434-4BQOFC0NX8KW8591KICR/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie A little somethin’ somethin’ to get you started on ideas for all that yogurt! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/einkorn-sourdough-loaf monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580931039165-LXMMPSXAHB2DY84WWM9S/finished+loaf.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Einkorn Sourdough Loaf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580932421170-I73E32M4BCT84CITLAL7/shaped+loaf.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Einkorn Sourdough Loaf As you can see, lazy-style batard-ish. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/resources-for-the-home-cook monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585329083755-P8LIYNMSHIBLHS1KFMIW/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 They still look friendly, don’t they? Also, I have a lot of want for that kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585491751136-S9HIHQ7CTFPPWJCV8OXM/Conversion-Chart.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 This site’s chart is not as comprehensive as some of you might like (because lacks the full range of flours), but it will get the job done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585492799023-IU3NWVE8NQCQ0W85KGX4/salter+scale.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I’ve had this thing so long I forgot that it used to have that metal plate. I wonder where that plate went, anyway! I’d show you my actual scale, but then I’d have to clean my kitchen first and I just cannot with all that right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585493616217-JQ2PL964Z48TQ47N5K0S/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I should like to be on the beach right now. I am instead cooped up in my apartment like everyone else. Baking restores my calm, though, so win win! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585495401825-WFTRL2P5ZV6J56I7JRN8/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 Libraries are the real houses of knowledge: free, widely available, frequently digitized, and can teach you basically anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585495822054-5LPZRXYN6AYG770545YZ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 Do the Dew. Except not Mountain Dew - Research Dew! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585499157312-KCBSI8YCPZIOHQ02HLVZ/the+butcher+shop+1500s.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 What a cool painting! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585500500504-SI1GUVWZ8DKACKHCMMMR/Oregon-Trail-900x530.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 TBH, I find I die a lot more often of cholera in this game, but dysentery seems unfun as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585500663773-P1LJ9I0E3XYIO57VFKBI/soylent+green.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I almost went with a Charlton Heston meme, but this was too funny to ignore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585502656701-TBRRWH0Y366Y35S3DG6A/FKBRLQNRRQ9RFK1RI0TQE0R0E0DR60R020Z090L0IQ00IQTRN0Z0M0DQ3KBRX0JQI0URJKJQW0H0W0.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Resources for the Home Cook, Part 1 I’ve never hated a caterpillar before, but I hate the white-marked tussock moth caterpillar because they are currently terrorizing me with some sort of Biblical-style pestilence. Thank you for letting me abuse this forum to rant about this. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/jeygk3zr4fjcnjh73tdsn2m6xpfbcw monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1585013129462-C5JOYK3R89FQWF5U5Y77/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/a-selection-of-kraut-recipes monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581121285853-G9G9MMUZ2NXMQZ0KWFIV/3+krauts.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581120930464-H4NXUPPL5NLKHRNK7L55/PURPLE.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes It’s pretty, right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581120960258-Y2XGR4POC6SDI9FTI4BI/SLAW.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes This is my favorite. You can see I forgot the caraway this time. Ah well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581120993589-22YU3KTFTSIBWS2SPQ7G/UKHA.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - A Selection of Kraut Recipes Occasionally we eat this raw, but this one is mostly for cooking. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/how-to-make-vegetable-ferments monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1582843171312-P0AVL2QKMM6ATZ5K6595/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments There is nothing about kimchi that doesn’t make me happy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584910563066-L0RV8PTS0BL4G3YEFK97/SomeOblongAdmiralbutterfly-size_restricted.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Stay safe. Stay home. Wash your hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583361260968-YEQ67ETVRFBZLLWURGEL/DogsGrays.0.0.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Are you really going to tell me that this dog doesn’t look amazing? Only think that could make it better is if the kraut were fermented instead of pickled! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583421820004-O5ZSJXVECOPVMBIGI0PQ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This right here is “the start of a beautiful friendship” between you and some half or full sours! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424186439-WI9BSWOTIONZUS355D4G/Brine-Chart-for-Making-Pickles.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This one is nice because it also gives you volumetric. If you’re doing chile pastes or olives, you’ll double the 5% amounts to help prevent mold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424236279-8LN41VOSWQ59BLBDB0T9/brine+chart.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments I like this chart the best, though, because it gives you some guidance on which vegetables go with which brine percentages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583424502268-MCK3RJVHMO2QM4RDX94N/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments Olives! This is, hands down, my favorite fruit. I eat olives nearly every day, most of which are home cured. My bags of olives tend to come with a lot of leaves, so I save those for my herbalist practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583425116016-F7BYYS8FCUBH5C25CAE7/half+sours.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - How to Make Vegetable Ferments This is a super simple recipe for half sours https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ask-allie-special-edition-probiotics-and-immunity monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584569011128-T97E1DOP84A80IP7ZGUE/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584569587715-VE521HWAUMTQVW7MMOJ7/organs-of-the-immune-system-illustration-18584a.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity This will be handy in understanding the organs of the immune system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584570102085-K0MVX0A1R47XA6EZM6ZA/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity Washing your hands, alongside not touching your face, are the two best things you can do omgritenow to help your body avoid pathogens. That, and STAYING HOME! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584571233421-IVTY19125EL9UUVVN9JY/iStock-524530218-Converted.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity This is the basic process of immune response. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584575634582-6F61TSPTDD1Q89OV1LRK/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity You know you want to. Actually, I’d kind of like to eat that ASAP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584708814951-S66B499XEG93P5BH8IHW/cloudy-with-chance-meatballs-2.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584730804925-00ZC4P6D3KNTHP0RRVHI/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity I feel like I wouldn’t handle whatever is going on here nearly so well as she seems to be. Aren't you glad you’re staying home, so no one can put stuff up your nose? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1584731610187-86YLQ21NT3A93S9G81NW/454px-Wash_your_hands_poster_CDC_-_Wellbee.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie Special Edition: Probiotics and Immunity Stay clean, STAY HOME, and stay healthy, y’all! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ask-allie-5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583350241428-FZ6SCD94HGCQSTRAG0PE/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/viili-colcannon monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581192393955-YQ7OMOAONG9OD75A8K8K/colcannon.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viili Colcannon Look at all that extra butter. You want to eat this, don’t you? https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/viili-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583337703904-J7W9Q0WT8M6XVDBAR0OE/Viili+and+strawberries.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viili: An Origin Story Viili is all about the ropes and slime! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583338682573-T8OZR6URSMXXVOZPT1ZQ/Hyaluronan.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viili: An Origin Story This is what heteropolysaccharides can look like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583339009724-WI9TC0YXPAHDO323B2VQ/L.lactis02.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viili: An Origin Story He’s pretty cute, huh? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583342856807-1K62ATBXZ6V4DXZRTFER/moldy+viili.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viili: An Origin Story This is what moldy viili looks like when it’s cultured. You eat the mold too, which is sweet and creamy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583343384870-9AU5J1ALR82ATOUWTPC2/TwoGeos-01.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viili: An Origin Story You didn’t think I’d leave out the picture of our hero of the moldy viili, did you? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583344051687-ZGDDYHR70E3D1A0570CN/oh+the+ropes.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viili: An Origin Story If this is not the texture you’re looking for, go short viili. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ask-allie-4 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583333296346-QAJZ5OGJ538O0ZJ6KTCV/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583333562568-USSCO6LZXUZ2XNUKYZJJ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583334481674-4KY35BMCQ4XD5KD5T235/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1583336398319-PEN5LRXFCWK1L537S4XX/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/viking-ish-wild-rye-sourdough-loaf monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580173137536-2R2TT473DILX4N3BPS98/processed_received_233106381018415.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viking-ish Wild Rye Sourdough Loaf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580155286864-P812C6KHUFZDV9OM9RE3/VSM2Bread.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Viking-ish Wild Rye Sourdough Loaf These troughs are housed in the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. 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We can’t all be perfect, I suppose. 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Also, read this article. It’s crazy interesting! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ask-allie-2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1582387658221-PB3OLA01H2LKCVZ48SZJ/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/new-england-spelt-sourdough-pizza monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580780522055-S9IID67EBKNUH2U9J5XN/SPELT+PIZZA+BAKED.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - New England Spelt Sourdough Pizza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580780751109-CRJOZAHZD2G5MKBJC514/resting+spelt+pizza.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - New England Spelt Sourdough Pizza All mixed up! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580780646276-A60BH2Z6NP2GKFMK1LE3/rising+spelt+pizza.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - New England Spelt Sourdough Pizza Kneaded and in the bowl to rise https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/whats-up-with-wheat monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580579432331-9E89X6JU06T188QATJEX/1024px-Wheat_close-up.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? This is common wheat. Image courtesy of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat#/media/File:Wheat_close-up.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580657496956-HE1AEBT1F3OG7GL7M6TY/cartman+i+do+what+i+want.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? Y’all, this is the single greatest aspect of my job. True Strike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580580819324-JQR9W78D1DPUPCDFH86U/WheatAndFlour_Lead.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? Image courtesy of: https://www.world-grain.com/articles/11521-lactic-acid-shows-promise-in-wheat-tempering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580657936134-ODMIO5GJDNRBGB31JYWD/wheat_samples_kit.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? 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Spelt! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580785784536-NCGE86WOSLIPG3NMB6A5/durum-wheat-1.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? Durum! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580785999198-KBMWG611ER9HS99EI9W5/Kamut-plant-770x350.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? Khorasan! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580840844509-EGIC94IZT254VC8I9RJZ/glutenin-gliadin-gluten.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? This is what gliadin and glutenin look like together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580841579451-BO7II8GCCUZW0E1471D3/gliadin+molecule.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? This is a gliadin molecule, just in case you wanted to know what it looks like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580842917493-8QDHMM5D6MAR4R3TU7UD/SilverImaginaryElephant-size_restricted.gif THE BACTERIA BLOG - What’s Up with Wheat? https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ask-allie-1 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1581892027306-5EW0FEHLUTH9PH3MZ1PE/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/piim-jasons-deli-copycat-recipe monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580492873637-0Q147TZHSHNCFALSAHF7/caramel+colored+piima.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Piimä Jason's Deli Copycat Recipe My partner whittled that spoon, and I love it! https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/piim-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580489135659-ARY0S1Q2ERN3H8DPCPI6/piima.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Piimä: An Origin Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580487907376-Q405ZGNB8J5DWC3KC6CJ/image-asset.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Piimä: An Origin Story Looking at this, it’s hard to be confused as to why Scandinavians consume so much dairy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580487313751-GY03FUU7J7CCKZ30TM1A/pinguicula-vulgarus-79286-4.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Piimä: An Origin Story This is common butterwort. It grows wherever it can. Image courtesy of: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/butterwort https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580487651827-KSWKOV418PK0787ZP64W/Adirondack-Wildflowers-Roundleaf-Sundew-Drosera-rotundifolia-Boreal-Life-Trail-28-July-2012-91.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Piimä: An Origin Story Here is our sundew! Image courtesy of: https://wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-wildflowers-roundleaf-sundew-drosera-rotundifolia.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580489011535-85ZTZVYLGVNNIF3XHBR3/one+yogurt+to+rule+them+all.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Piimä: An Origin Story https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/russian-rye-buns monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580916970092-QBOZ9LK78X1UR3ICUXGE/bottom+view+finished+buns.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Russian Rye Sourdough Buns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580918042990-3HON6C5L5VN01Q2X1WZK/progress+pic+dough+balls.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Russian Rye Sourdough Buns Portions of balls of dough, oh my! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580918272623-2AC3HJYO0QXWE2HERR2S/completed+dough+balls.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Russian Rye Sourdough Buns Here’s what they look like finished - note that I did not ensure these balls were smooth. That’s on purpose so they crack better https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580918421923-TK47IEFYFDK6PQYS0SNH/top+view+finished+buns.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Russian Rye Sourdough Buns The little lovelies remind me a lot of the bread version of macarons de Nancy. Which is a cookie that’s dear to my heart. https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/ask-allie monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580930177446-5L05IH1D1GVIA7DHU671/Ask+Allie+logo.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Ask Allie https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gluten-free-sourdough-muffins-part-2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580399998113-C6YRCK3IOUNM99C7JJB1/gf+sourdough+muffins.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580402971029-VHOVYPKMVGI9R3L64QAY/eugene-sorghum.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 2 I can’t think of sorghum without thinking of Eugene. Sorrynotsorry https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/gluten-free-sourdough-muffins-part-1 monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580397203369-76BQXQ2LC1J6JO51SI0V/processed_20200129_181527.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580325326433-Q5Q0UIMJF0AENEB8MMXO/monty-python-image-3_758_427_81_s.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 1 The Rabbit of Caebannog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580339324787-JDTXGF2FC73WPUTZ0HP4/buttercream-frosting-1-683x1024.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 1 This is a picture of buttercream frosting, but your mixture will look pretty close to the same. Image courtesy of: https://ohsodelicioso.com/lick-the-beater-clean-buttercream-frosting/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580339844305-JFOED8WYJ4QURTJQSLXY/turn03-590x358.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 1 I really like Seth Numrich. Just sayin’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580405358087-55JD7LC5XW04ZC9Q6F57/sarah+powerlifting.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 1 The aforementioned Sarah, who happens to be a powerlifter. She probably doesn’t need a stand mixer, but I bet she’ll use one anyway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580396893362-PAQ2PU6KI1SCZ85ZDTVW/youcandoit.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Gluten Free Sourdough Muffins, Part 1 https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/bara-brith monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1579832439911-IJYVVW3S5U97FRUC6DUZ/finished+bara+brith.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kombucha Bara Brith It was really hard not to start eating immediately. That’s how much I love you guys. Just sayin’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1579793174071-OK623G9D05X2UUY3CXYT/BB+mug.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kombucha Bara Brith This was a gift from my sister-in-law, and is still my favorite cup (I regretfully admit that its mate broke). Can you tell I used to be an English professor? Who else would carry around such a pedantic mug? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1579793288001-TFQOO6OUSKMNGFCCBZTA/BB+tea+and+fruit.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kombucha Bara Brith Just remember: if doesn’t have to look delicious yet. You will forget about all your hesitancy once you bite into this glorious loaf! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1579832571991-34Y37KD3EVVRDB8OKEZV/Bara+brith+batter.jpeg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kombucha Bara Brith Didn’t think it’d come together so well, did you? https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/kombucha-an-origin-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1579022681701-8PJ6IG249MB4TTEQWS1T/kombucha.png THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kombucha: An Origin Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9beaab29f2cc1a1ce897ce/1580179597100-UQEIS4PH4W2KZUBN4CM8/first-emperor-of-China.jpg THE BACTERIA BLOG - Kombucha: An Origin Story Qin Shi Huang. 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