Learn How to Ferment Anything with Nourished Kitchen

Posted on : 05-11-2012 | By : Jill | In : RealFoodMedia
Spicy Dill Sauerkraut, Stage 2

My Spicy Dill Sauerkraut, with and without carrots.

Have you heard about the benefits of naturally fermented foods like yogurt, kombucha, sauerkraut and pickles, sourdough bread, and naturally cured meats? Ever wonder why they’re so good for you? Did you know you can make them at home? It’s fun, easy, cheaper than buying them ready made, and you can control the ingredients.

Jenny of Nourished Kitchen is launching a new 13-week long fermented foods online course this month, “Get Cultured: How to Ferment Anything” and she is offering a special launch price of only $147 (and keep reading to learn how to get an additional $50 off!). That’s less than $12 per lesson for all this:

  • 14 comprehensive online multimedia lessons
  • 52 online video tutorials
  • 60+ print tutorials
  • 100+ recipes for naturally fermented foods
  • Downloadable print materials to take notes & organize your recipes
  • Sample shopping lists
  • Equipment recommendations
  • Exclusive interview with Donna Gates, founder and author of the Body Ecology Diet
  • Recorded conference calls so you can get your questions answered over the phone with Jenny (if you miss the calls or just want to listen again, they’re recorded–listen any time!)
  • Premium instructor support
  • Discounts from companies Jenny knows, uses, and trusts

But wait, there’s more! :) If you sign up by May 22, you’ll also get the free 36-pg e-book Get Cultured: Probiotic Recipes from the Nourished Kitchen.

Check out Jenny’s intro video describing the course:

Food sensitivities? Most of the recipes are allergen-free, and she offers a gluten-free sourdough bread recipe, and instructions for making yogurt and kefir out of coconut milk if you don’t do dairy. See the full outline of the course here.

Sign Up Now and Save $50!

Jenny’s offered Farm Food Blog readers a way to get her course for even less!  Use the coupon code SAUERKRAUT by May 22 to take another $50 off–making this course only $97. That’s a steal–Jenny’s a natural teacher as well as a great cook so the course will be easy to follow and the recipes will be delicious.

So click here now: “Get Cultured: How to Ferment Anything” and don’t forget to enter the coupon code SAUERKRAUT on the shopping cart page to get $50 off. Remember, the coupon code expires May 22!

Still not sure? Jenny offers a 30-day, no questions asked refund policy, and the e-book is yours to keep!

Lactofermented Vegetables

A variety of lactofermented vegetables from my garden.

Homemade Pork Sausage

Posted on : 05-08-2012 | By : Jill | In : Recipes, TheFood
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Tasty pork sausage for breakfast with omelet muffins (recipe next time!).

It’s nice to make your own sausage from ground pork, so you can control what’s in it. It’s so easy to add a tasty blend of seasonings and shape the meat into patties. Tasty with eggs for breakfast, or as a main dish for dinner.

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon fennel seed (where to buy nonirradiated herbs and spices)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt (where to buy sea salt)
  • 1 tablespoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional, to make it spicy–adjust to taste)
  • 1 tsp dried sage, optional–for a more “breakfast sausage” type flavor (I like it both ways!)
  • 1 teaspoon garlic granules or 1 teaspoon garlic powder or 2-3 cloves fresh garlic, crushed
  • 1 pound ground pastured pork (where to buy sustainable meat)

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Cream of Asparagus Soup

Posted on : 04-30-2012 | By : Jill | In : Recipes, TheFood
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Cream of Asparagus Soup by Jill Nienhiser for Farm Food Blog.

When a friend gave me ten pounds of asparagus recently, I knew I had to come up with more ways to use it than my typical light steaming with lemon and butter. I asked for favorite preparations on Farm Food Blog’s Facebook page, and Jennifer McGruther of Nourished Kitchen provided the link to her favorite Asparagus Soup. If you don’t know Jenny’s blog yet, I urge you to check it out, sign up for her newsletter, Like her Facebook page, etc. She’s a wealth of information about traditional foods and has beautifully written posts with gorgeous photographs. She has awesome meal plans and online classes on cooking traditional foods, too.

I tried her recipe as is, and then since I still had plenty of asparagus, I experimented a bit with a few changes, as shown in italics in the recipe below! Enjoy! (more…)

Asparagus

Posted on : 04-30-2012 | By : Jill | In : TheFood
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Spring Asparagus by Jill Nienhiser for Farm Food Blog

Spring means abundant asparagus around here. A friend just dropped off ten pounds to me–her friend who has a small farm is overrun! So I’m looking for more ways to serve it than just steamed with butter and lemon.

The Plant and Its History

White, green, and purple asparagus. Photo found on several sites; source unknown.

Asparagus is a flowering perennial plant that provides tender young edible shoots in the spring. It’s a cousin of lily, onion, and garlic, and is native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. When the buds start to open, the stalks get woody. It has greenish-white bell shaped flowers, as well as a small red berry that is poisonous to humans. The stalks have been eaten by humans for 20,000 years, and a recipe for asparagus appears in the oldest surviving cookbook, the Roman Apicius’s De re coquinaria, Book III (4th century CE). (more…)

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-27

Posted on : 04-27-2012 | By : Jill | In : Tweets

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