Home-cured Corned Beef and 1000 Island from Scratch

I’ve wanted to make synthetic-nitrate free home-cured corned beef for a couple of years now and I’m so grateful I finally took the plunge!  It’s actually really easy and hands off. And I can definitely contest it is way more flavorful and healthy than the sodium, “natural flavor” and preservative laden store bought variety. As a side …

Perfect Sustainable Seafood Pasta

Get Cultured Ktchn Hey friends! Are we loving this fall weather or what?! And this fall food?!?! Mmmm, warming spices, pumpkin and other squash varieties… PERSIMMONS? Okay, I know most people don’t eat persimmons… and I know they have nothing to do with seafood pasta… but I literally wait in excitement for them all year long and just had …

Basic Vegetable Lacto-Fermentation Recipe

Get Cultured Ktchn One of the easiest ways to enjoy the benefits of fermented foods is pickling vegetables via lacto-fermentation. Not only is the flavor incomparable to vinegar preserved pickles, but they provide a host of probiotics. Also, they don’t require any special equipment to make! And isn’t that a huge bonus in our hectic lives? Our intestinal tract is full of billions of …