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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June 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: General, Green kitchen, Preservation, Recipes | Comment for Community

Making Kimchi

chardkimchi

The day kimchi came to the Bosque was a very fine day indeed. Since Charles, an amazing visitor from Tucson, led a small kimchi making workshop over 2 years ago, we’ve always had a crock of the stuff bubbling away in our kitchen. Our first batch, pictured above, was a spicy chard kimchi.

Kimchi is a traditional Korean side dish made of vegetables and seasonings. Most often, kimchi is made with napa cabbage and seasoned with spicy pepper, garlic, and ginger. But there are a million ways to make kimchi. It can

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October 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Preservation | 6 comments

Gundru

A jar of gundru ready to be fermented

What do you do when your gardening team provides you with two five-gallon buckets full of radishes?

I winced.  Cringed.  Blech. I can barely bring myself to add a couple of radishes to a salad, let alone deal with hundreds of the things.  One of the ladies I buy food from in the market always tries to give me a few bundles of radishes for free.  I’ve taken to a little white lie:  “Oh, no thank

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May 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Preservation, Recipes | 5 comments

Mandarin Marmalade

basket of mandarin oranges

Our mandarin tree went nuts this year and produced hundreds of fruits.  It is gorgeous.  I’ve been watering it with some of the kitchen grey water, hoping to make the fruit a bit more juicy, and it has helped some.  Unfortunately, the mandarins are very tart, and usually still a bit dry.  We will put some manure from one of our composting toilets into the orchard to try to increase production and flavor of our fruit.

But… what to do with a bunch of mandarins that

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March 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Preservation, Recipes | 3 comments

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