I have been experimenting with various ways to make coconut water kefir. My first step was to rehydrate some water kefir grains I had been given by a local fermentation fan last year and get them bubbling. I had previously made coconut kefir with dairy kefir grains which also works quite nicely, but I was eager to try the water kefir grains since I knew they love mineral and sugar rich water.
The water grains really loved the coconut water, although it did take them about three weeks before they started to reproduce. They loved them so much that I only had to leave them in overnight before straining them instead of the 48 hour cycle that plain water kefir likes. To be honest I didn’t really like the smell and I found that my personal preference is to use dairy kefir grains to make coconut water kefir. I also discovered that when using dairy grains to culture the coconut water, if they start to weaken you can add them back into dairy for a while to get them reactivated. Just give them a couple weeks before using in coconut water again.
The Abkhasians had a way of life that is out of reach for modern man, or so it seems! One of the arguments that is often used to promote modern medical technology (vaccinations etc) is that we are living to be much older than we used to. I must point out that even with all of our advanced medical te ...
I was recently looking at some of my first posts about the GAPS diet and realized...it's been a year! I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. So let me see if I can manage to say something coherent about our experiences over this past year. I still feel that my gut needs to do some serious ...
I originally stumbled across this great Instructable detailing how to make a straw slow-cooker, and was so thrilled by it that I soon made one myself. After the first attempt I discovered that it made a great incubator for home-made yogurt (I currently incubate my yogurt for around 24 hours for maxi ...
Saurkraut made with kefir grains gives you kefirkraut! Originally developed by Dom, please check out his site: Dom's Kefirkraut in-site for a full description and history of the recipe. There are lots of other great recipes and interesting resources over there, which I am sure all the fermentation f ...
Well I've been feeling a bit bad about not posting many recipes lately, so I just wanted to share this one. Recently we've started adding juices to our kefir--yum! Very easy fresh and full of friendly enzymes, probiotics and vitamins. 3 apples
3 medium carrots
1-2 inch piece of ginger
1 c of ...
Neosugars, Raw, Supernatants, Centrifuging, Ultrafiltration, Processed, Homemade... I have been reading the book Probiotics: Nature's Internal Healers by Natasha Trenev, she has some good pointers about things to watch out for when buying probiotics. Although I generally prefer to avoid technolog ...
Reposting of the information about kefir put together over at www.bovinity.webs.com. A wonderful and well-researched look into how kefir can help with cancer, herpes, IBS, immune disfunction, allergies, colitis and leaky gut among many other things. Alternate names for milk-based Kefir Grains (a ...
This year, while searching through various old cookbooks for pecan pie recipes I came across a lovely fresh apple relish (Apple Kitchen Cook Book by Demetria Taylor), which I just had to try. It was fantastic! Especially tasty with fresh, local apples, it works particularly well as a relish with tur ...
This is quite a lovely idea for people who make their own yogurt at home--a herbal infused yogurt. It is VERY simple, yet exotic--using only milk, yogurt culture and your choice of aromatic herb(s) or spice(s). Some delightful herbs I have used are keffir lime leaves, lemon verbena, rosemary, mint, ...
I have been experimenting with various ways to make coconut water kefir. My first step was to rehydrate some water kefir grains I had been given by a local fermentation fan last year and get them bubbling. I had previously made coconut kefir with dairy kefir grains which also works quite nicely, but I was eager to try the water kefir grains since I knew they love mineral and sugar rich water.
