Kombucha: how to make it – a beginners guide

Booch? So you’ve heard of it, but actually have no idea what it is, aside from a weird hippy drink? Kombucha is a fermented tea, made from a symbiotic culture of yeast and bacteria, which is called a Scoby. Kombucha, or booch is a light, slightly fizzy drink. The yeasts and bacteria are meant to…

Sauerkraut for beginners

This is the easiest and most basic sauerkraut recipe, perfect for beginners! Super easy and cheap all you need is: 1 finely chopped cabbage and salt. To make: Put ingredients in a large and very clean, bowl finely dice 1 cabbage (If you have one on hand, I suggest you use a food processor, so…

Cucumber and Yoghurt Dip

Cucumber and Yoghurt Dip. This is such a simple recipe and is really popular with the kids. We have this as a dip for polenta fingers and felafel and use it as a dressing for salads. To make: In a bowl put: 1 cup plain unsweetened yoghurt 1/2 cucumber finely diced Squeeze of lemon juice…

Sourdough Starter using kombucha

To make the sourdough starter: In a bowl mix 1 cup of gluten free flour and 1 cup of active kombucha. I used a mixture of gf flours, combining rice flour, chickpea flour, tapioca flour and gf bread mix. When it got quite wet and runny I added pysilium husk. Nut and seed based flours…

Ruby Sauerkraut

I made sauerkraut today! Super easy and cheap all you need is 1 finely chopped cabbage (I used purple cabbage) , 10 juniper berries and salt. I also added 2 grated beetroot, 1 grated apple. To make: Put ingredients in a large and very clean, bowl finely dice 1 whole purple cabbage (If you have…