Dare I be grain-free?
That is the question :)
Fire Cider – Try
Thought I'd share this one with you.. I didn't get my hands on elderberries this season, so I decided to give fire cider a try. It has all lovely spicy (and firy) ingredients in there, so it has to be good to support the body's system in the fight against the 'winter...
Workshop Weil-Am-Rhein on September 25/26
A new beginner workshop coming up in Weil-am-Rhein on September 25/26th! Be sure to register! Both English and German speaking participants are welcome! Participants will get ginger, water kefir, milk kefir and kombucha cultures. Sourdough can also be taken along for...
The Cranberries (and your gut flora)
A report published in "Applied and Environmental Microbiology" discussess the ability to metabolize complex sugar molecules from cranberries by Bifidobacterium longum. Bifidobacterium longum supspecies longum, which is one of the good guys in our gut flora is...
Fecal Microbes in front of City Hall Park
An interestingly 'educational' project in front of City Hall Park, where E. coli magnified 10 000x , along with a huge earthworm, a nematode and a human embryo are exhibited.
Thank you Participants – WAR Workshop!
A heartfelt thank you to all participants of the Weil-am-Rhein Workshop; 1, 2, 3, 4, hier kommt Ingwerbier (und andere probiotische Kulturen)! It was my pleasure to assist you in experimenting with all the different cultures! Hopefully until some time soon!
Bread intolerance detector – results part I
I really hate that this section is called 'part I'. Yes, indeed, unfortunately there will be more parts to this saga. One of the easiest ways I thought I would find out once and for all if I don't tolerate gluten is to bake gluten-free bread. Thereto, I made a nice...
“Wash your hands” today (and on all other days ;))
May 5th is the World Hand Hygiene Day! You may have heard of the increasing problems with antibiotic resistance. People casually entering the hospital for a routine surgery end up being infected with almost incurable bacterial infections. This problem is huge and on...
A simple cheese
I experimented with preparing a quick cottage cheese-like cheese with herbs. Thereto I used a relatively old milk kefir, (as opposed to fresh from the batch), from which I squeezed out most of the liquid using 2 towels. The resulting curd was put overnight for...
Chickpea Flour Bread
I am currently testing a new sourdough with chickpea flour instead of regular flour or any of the usual flours used in bread. Some of you might have gotten that I have issues with digesting normal bread and sourdough bread. So I thought that one of my experiments in...