here's a rough recipe. it's very easy and i think you can go wild and put other vegetables in it if they are safe to eat raw. (i think that means don't put potatoes in it.) also, don't put any thing with preservatives in it (like that tempting jar of saracha sauce. put it down. do it. don't do it.)
this is what i used:
1/2 head of cabbage (nappa or savoy if you can get it)
1 daikon (like 8 inches of daikon)
3 carrots
1 radish
3 scallions
1 bulb of garlic
about 3 inches of ginger (i didn't do this, some friends are allergic)
about 1 tbl cayenne pepper
5 whole dried cayenne pepper
about 3 tbl sea salt
1 cup of water
this is what i did, or in retrospect should have done:
chop everything up into the shapes and sizes i wanted them to be in.
put everything in a big bowl.
pound down everything in the bowl with a bottle, for like ten minutes.
shove it all into a jar or two jars and then put saucers or cups inside to put the vegetables below the water level. more liquid will be made as the salt pulls water out of the plants. close the jar. leave it alone in a dark place. check on it every day until you like the way it tastes. in a hot nyc apartment where you can't really adjust the heat, it should take 5-7 days.
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how is your amasake? I haven't tried making that yet, and am wondering if you had success
hi john.
the amasake was tricky. i'm worried it could go badly. but turning the oven on 140 and turning it off as soon as it got to temperature seemed to keep the rice warm enough overnight. it might be good as a breakfast cereal or something.
Hi, Carm!
1.) I propose a skillshare: once Moss teaches me how to make kombucha, I'll give you one of my pedigreed kombucha babies on the grounds that:
1a.) You create absurd pedigree templates and affix them to any bottles of kombucha you serve to your friends, and that you insist they do the same if you give them kombucha babies, and
1b.) You stand by while I start my first batch of kimchee.
2.) Holy shit. You made kimchee. That's so amazing.
3.) Does it raise a smell in the house/attract outsized NYC roaches?
kate!
3) the smell was intense when i had it in a bowl, but once i put in in an elegant jar--which i should have done in the first place--it didn't smell enough to bother the haters anymore.
2) shit kate it was easy. you can put whatever you want in it. too. i want to make some ginger-carrot kimchee and some total bizarro kimchees. curry kimchee. chipotle-oregano kimchee. woah yeah. let's do it soon.
1) skillshares rule. i found a kombucha baby source at the co-op
1a) absolutely!
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