Can’t get your pickles or sauerkraut to stay under the brine during fermentation? It can be frustrating to go through all the effort of chopping, shredding and stuffing your ingredients into jars to ferment… only to find them a few days later with fuzzy mold growing on the little bits that stick out of the…
Mediterranean Cauliflower Pickles
Dried herbs, garlic and lemon are used to flavor these tangy, probiotic, mediterranean cauliflower pickles. These pickles are packed with probiotics, and filled with vitamins that are great for your skin, anti-inflammatory, and energy boosting. This recipe uses lacto-fermentation, also called brine pickling, to turn the veggies into a healthy, probiotic food. Brine pickling is one of the simplest…
14 Fermented Foods To Help You Cleanse and Detox This Spring
Fermented foods are the perfect way to eliminate toxins and refresh your body in time for Summer. After a winter of indulging in heavy comfort foods, like me, you’re probably ready to restore balance in your body and just feel lighter. Here are 14 Fermented Foods To Help You Cleanse and Detox This Spring so you…
Top 10 Fermented Food Recipes of 2015
2015 was quite an eventful year for me. My husband and I bought our first house, we both got new jobs, and Fermented Food Lab has grown tremendously over the last year. I am so grateful for you and the journey this blog has taken me. Looking at how my recipes did in 2015 I came across…
Spicy Garlic & Dill Pickled Green Beans
My Spicy Garlic & Dill Pickled Green Beans are absolutely delicious! Sour, garlicky, a little spicy and crunchy. These would look great on a charcuterie plate with an assortment of cheeses, meats and olives. Would be amazing in a Bloody Mary or as a quick probiotic snack. Green beans are an easy vegetable to ferment, because…
Tips To Ferment Vegetables Safely & Prevent Mold
I was raised NOT to leave food sitting on the counter. So you can imagine how horrified I was when I was following the Body Ecology Diet and came across the section on making fermented vegetables. Hell no… no way… no way… I skipped that section and moved on. But something happened… You know when…
Fermented Zucchini Pickles
Wow, have I got a treat for you! Garlic, ginger, turmeric and a few slices of onion flavor these pickles to sour, zingy perfection. Stained golden yellow from the turmeric and sliced thin into rounds makes them fit perfectly on sandwiches and burgers. My garden has been producing loads of zucchini. I can only eat zucchini so…
Pickled Thai Carrot Sticks
Gingery, sour, light lemongrass flavor and spicy, but still crunchy and sweet in the middle. Pickled Thai Carrot Sticks are healthy, delicious, and a great snack. Carrots are one of my favorite vegetables to ferment. They always come out delicious and keep their crunch. This recipe was inspired for my love of Thai Food. About 12 years ago I…
What is that white milky stuff on my fermented veggies?
So, what is that white milky on my fermented veggies? Occasionally when I make fermented vegetables a white milky substance forms on the top of the pickle brine. If this happens to you…don’t freak out. I recently made a big batch of fermented carrots and 2 days into fermenting them a white milky substance formed on…
Pickled Skinny Asparagus Snacks
Hello Friends and happy Friday! Get ready for this super yummy and healthy snack. It’s crisp, fresh, tangy, garlicky with a hint of hot pepper. I highly recommend making these Pickled Skinny Asparagus Snacks. So, don’t forget to add these to your list of weekend must-dos. This recipe is inspired by the produce section overflowing with…