Want to learn more about bacteria? Get ready for a ride with this TED talk with Bonnie Bassler. Listen carefully and you will come to realize just how important good bacteria are to put in your body. It is all about out-numbering the bad guys. Profound TED talk. Listen up. Listen twice, maybe three times. [...]

Now we’re talkin! Here is Irene’s beautiful collection of cultured foods. She has been taking the Essential Cuisine Dietary Makeover and I think she made over her whole kitchen. Wow, everything she made is delicious. The Tumeric Tonic? As soon as I learn more I will tell you! Isn’t this beautiful. Way to go Irene. [...]

Yeah for our Dietary Makeover students!! Today one of my students dropped by a coconut kefir and her cultured veggies. Oh my, they were so good. On the left is a picture! Now, here is what is extra cool. She used fresh coconut milk, which means she combined coconut water with coconut meat. She also [...]

The 4-week Dietary Makeover begins with making cultured veggies. In following along with the class, I am making a big batch, which I do once a month anyway. This month’s recipe is going to be a bit spicy, as in hot spicy. I will harvest them on March 12th, giving them 10 days to ferment. [...]

This is the breakfast, lunch or dinner fit for Queens and Kings! Wow! That beautiful porridge is Ogi, fermented millet. After a couple days of fermentation I warmed it and added some raisins and a little coconut oil. Then I topped it with walnuts and added some cultured veggies and coconut yogurt to make a [...]

Just look at this beautiful celery!! There are so many ways to make fermented foods, and there are so many fermented food recipes. Then there are cultured vegetables, which is what I am becoming at master at! Well, or so I think! After considerable research I decided to try a new way to make cultured [...]

Yes, that’s right. This recipe won the award for best tasting cultured (fermented) veggies at the AgFest 2011 here on Maui. I like to call them Cultured Superfoods! Recipe: 10 cups cabbage – 3 small heads chopped or grated(save outer leaves for canopy) 5 cups red cabbage – 1 head chopped or grated (save outer [...]

Hi Susan, Since I began these few additions, I noticed @ first I didn’t care for the cultured veggies, now I like them.  I almost crave more of them once I begin eating them.  I just brushed and flossed my teeth with no blood when I flossed!  This is amazing.  Also, my stool this morning [...]

First comes the fresh coconut which you can see above. Then comes the work. With a machete the coconut must be opened, precious coconut water drained and made into kefir. Then the meat is scraped out and made into a yogurt. Now, this is no easy task, but so worth the effort. I use young [...]

Woohoo! Seven days ago I taught a class on how to make cultured veggies (think sauerkraut). The ingredients were: red and green cabbage, beets, carrots, parsley, kale, sea veggies, and salt. We placed them in a large crystal glass bowl, covered them with large cabbage leaves for a canopy, then a large shallow bowl (upside [...]