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.
Dearbhla Reynold’s tomato salsa
This cabbage free tomato ferment is adaptable, quick and easy to do.
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?
Fire tonic
I have been making fire tonic for my family for years now. I make apple cider vinegar myself and this forms an amazing living solvent, which then extracts constituents from the herbs I soak in it.
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.
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.
Beet kvass
I used to hate beetroot as a child. Which was unfortunate because my mother did love making us beetroot sandwiches.
Record-breaking sauerkraut
This is our Guinness World Record-setting Sauerkrautathon sauerkraut recipe. It is pretty special, even without that accolade!
Four thieves vinegar
Making herbal vinegars is a deeply satisfying process. They have been used therapeutically throughout the history of medicine-making because vinegar is a good living solvent and extracts many herbal constituents effectively.