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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The International Flavors of Cooking for Community

What do you do when you find yourself serving meals to a German, an Englishman, a Mexican, a Canadian, an Italian, a Frenchwoman, and an Austrailian?

This is not the beginning of a bad joke.

Every week we serve to a very international crowd.  People from all over the world come to the Bosque to participate in some of the ecological programs, enjoy personal retreats, and learn about permaculture.  Our past visitor map is becoming more and more crowded:

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Feeding the diversity is no easy task.  Millions of taste buds from hundreds of different culinary

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Menu for 50 people, 5 days

This week the Bosque team will be serving 12 meals to 40-60 people.

That means a potential of 720 meals.  That is more than a lot of people cook in a year.

The Bosque Village is hosting a gathering of people interested in learning about sustainability, permaculture, living in nature, plants, gardens, and natural building.  Everyone who attends will also create, and we look forward to participants leading yoga and meditation, theater activities, dance classes, permaculture workshops, and so on.  It is a yearly event and is quite fun.

Fun…  and a bit of work.  For me, it is a chance to show

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