Recipes

Explore my larder of recipes. Every recipe detailed here has been tested and consumed by me and my family. I don’t recommend anything that we don’t eat ourselves.

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Making water kefir - first forays

Water kefir contains around 10-15 strains of beneficial bacteria and yeasts. For us, it is a healthy and refreshing drink.

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Dearbhla Reynold’s tomato salsa

This cabbage free tomato ferment is adaptable, quick and easy to do.

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Chocolate sauerkraut cake

I kid you not - sauerkraut cake is a “thing” and has been for some time. If we eat carrot cake, why not sauerkraut cake?

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Vital ketchup

This stuff is a little addictive, but in a good way. It is great as a pasta sauce, on pizzas, mixed into a bean stew, a chilli or a bolognaise.

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Fermented cherry tomato bombs

I get loads of tomatoes ripening at the same time in one brief, but glorious glut. Fermenting is a brilliant way of conserving the glut.

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Beet kvass

I used to hate beetroot as a child. Which was unfortunate because my mother did love making us beetroot sandwiches.

Jo Webster 7/8/21 Jo Webster 7/8/21

Record-breaking sauerkraut

This is our Guinness World Record-setting Sauerkrautathon sauerkraut recipe. It is pretty special, even without that accolade!

Jo Webster 5/4/21 Jo Webster 5/4/21

Rejoice the radish

Radishes are easy to grow. And easy to pop into your mouth almost straight from the ground. Delayed gratification is a bit of a challenge for me, but if you can resist eating your radishes long enough to make this ferment, you will be richly rewarded.