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That is the Norwegian cheese right? My swedish school children used to bring me that cheese...YUM! Hey WZ, try it on coconut pancakes, it is to die for! Sure Neko, share your recipe as well please.

Gotta love Julia! In all fairness, the "nutritionists" are catching on. My daughter's clinical dietitian perscribed a diet very, very low in grains, legumes and commercial dairy. She encouraged her to eat lotsa healthy fats ie butter etc, veggies raw and some cooked, grass fed meats and...

Moolie, I didn't have time to check out your sites you listed, so I may be repeating them... Kefir smells like plain yogurt when it is finished. Mine forms a creamy crust (raw whole milk) on top so I can't smell it until I stir it in. Kefir isn't as firm as yogurt, it is more like drinkable...

Way cool! Thanks! Do you happen to know how to make lip balm with bees wax? Hopefully this time next year I will have some bees wax to play around with.

How excititng! I can't wait to read more about this! :pop

The grains are the culture and they do grow then split off or you can pull them apart. I split mine when they are as big as, say a tablespoon or bigger. They would work even if you rinsed them well in water and put them in fresh milk, you don't have to save any starter from the first batch...

It will live, don't worry. Just won't thrive as well in skim. I seem to think someone here used skim in a pinch for a while... Kefir grains are very hardy. I've frozen some and dehydrated others and they handle it very well.

It doesn't bother me if the bones have been gnawed on a bit, it is going to be boiling for 2 days, I think that just about kills any germs. :P Everyone in my family saves the gnawed bones for me at the end of the meal. Sometimes I freeze the bones until I'm ready to make broth. :) I keep 4...

Yep, kefir is the most simple fermented food I make. It takes very little effort and isn't all that picky about different types of milk either, although I think it does need some fat, so make sure not to use skim etc... (I've even used heavy cream before and it turns out like custard!) It...

It will be fine for an hour in the fridge, but remember it needs to eat! :lol: Have fun! (You can turn coconut milk into coconut kefir and it is so good! You just have to refresh the grain in milk afterwards.)

Here you don't even have to have a permit to build one b/c it is a free standing/temp structure. Perhaps in a residental setting, there may be other codes. I see them all around these parts though. :)

(Why it is important to go organic.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exBEFCiWyW0

What a freekin jerk! (I can't type what I really want to call him...but it isn't pretty.) I'd be too much of a chicken to confront him b/c I have no man/nor a gun around here to back me up. I would worry too much about retaliation. However, how about calling the police. They probably won't...

I would totally be frustrated as well. Times like these I have to remind myself, "There is a reason for everything." You may not see it now, but it will make sense later...always does. :hugs

Way cool! Fennel grows wild up here too. I've also got some flowering out right now in my garden. I'm going to try to collect it now. Thanks!

And it really gets the birds VERY clean, even the fine hair feathers. The older birds I did need to do a bit of hand plucking in a few spots, but not much. We rented the plucker and scalder for $25 for the day (for both!) from the county's conservation district. (Not including propane...

It went well. OMG I have so much chicken and parts it is awesome! 6 lbs of gizzards, 3 lbs hearts, 12 oz-1 lb of chicken fat, 6 lbs of skinned feet for stock, 3 lbs of liver. I got some really big chickens (8 I think) (some I 've already given away to the help) between 5-6 lbs. The rest are...

It took us (3-5 people) 4 hours from start to finish...that includes waiting for the scalder to heat up. :P We ended up doing 26 all toghther.

I love salami!!! Seems like a simple recipe. :) (No nitrate version: Ok, what about celery juice? I have a recipe for curing corned beef that uses celery juice rather than nitrates etc. http://nourishedkitchen.com/home-cured-corned-beef/ Also beet juice is mentioned on Marks Daily...

I've said this before...I was raised as a "healthy" vegetarian (no fake foods) although sometimes I ate what I wanted at my friend's houses when I was a teen. I'm not telling anyone what to eat just giving you my case study for yucks. My parents always had a HUGE garden and fruit and nut...