Bosque-kraut: A sour cabbage I love

I play around a lot with fermenting foods and souring veggies. My absolute favorite is spicy, firey, salty, tangy kimchi. However, a lot of people can’t take the heat or the combination of flavors… or, they just prefer something milder.

Which leads me to this compromise. I’m not a huge fan of sauerkraut in its purest form: cabbage and salt. I mean, I’ll eat it. No problem. But for me it can be bland or boring (especially compared to gingery garlicky goodness of kimchi).

So a few weeks

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Eat for the World

soccer

Brian and I sat down to watch the only sporting event I have seen on TV since moving to Mexico 3 years ago: the 2010 World Cup final match between Spain and Netherlands.  I didn’t particularly care who won, and I have to be honest that I don’t care about soccer in the slightest.  What I loved about watching that game was thinking about how many people, all over the world, were watching the match with me.

715 million people watched the 2006 World Cup finals.  Imagine the 20 largest

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Kitchen Greywater

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Greywater is waste water from kitchen and bathing use.  Our grey water from the sink and shower drains goes out of the house, through some gravel filtration and into a garden, providing water to some ornamental plants and a lime tree.

A few months ago I decided those plants were hogging entirely too much valuable water, and have placed a five gallon bucket in my kitchen to help share a bit of the water-love.

When we rinse beans and rice or have leftover cooking water, we dump it

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