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Soft cheese is a fantastically healthy cultured food that is as versatile as it is delicious. It is a high-moisture, spreadable cheese that is eaten fresh. Soft cheeses such as cream cheese, ricotta or mozzarella can easily be used in recipes, or dolloped on top of pasta, salad, or warm pitta or flat bread. These cheeses have a moist, creamy consistency and can flvoured with a wide range of possible additions to make the flavour your own. Fruit, nuts, veggies, herbs, or spices: anything can be added to a soft cheese to make spreads, dressings, toppings, or afternoon snacks. Making soft...

As a live culture consisting of active yeasts and bacteria, a kombucha scobys will do best if it is allowed to sit on the counter culturing one batch of sugared tea after another. However, life can interfere at times and if you are facing the possibility of needing to take a break from making Kombucha, here are some guidelines for how to take a break without damaging the Scoby.   Short-term Breaks (less than 6 weeks) While many people only brew their kombucha for 1 to 4 weeks (depending on personal taste preferences), it is possible to allow a batch...

How do i know when my milk kefir is ready?..... When your Kefir looks like this basically. You should have little currents of clear liquid pooling round your grains in the curds. When your kefir looks like this, bottle it.  

Many people have heard or seen kombucha and when they hear of water kefir its likely to be compared it to kombucha. Exactly what is the difference between kombucha and water kefir? Are their benefits of one over the other? Should you be drinking both? So what exactly are they? Kombucha is fermented tea made with a kombucha starter culture (there are many names for the culture including mushroom, mother, scoby). The mixture is allowed to ferment at room temperature for 5 to 30 days. It can be consumed plain or with added flavoring such as fruit or juice. Kombucha contains a number...

The awesome thing about water kefir is that you can really flavor it however you want. It is very forgiving and you can be as creative as you’d like. Everything from fruit, to juice, to herbs, to flowers. The sky is the limit for creativity! and there really is nothing nicer than sitting on a sunny day with a chilled homemade bottle of water kefir! image credit Kellie Anderson (Food To Glow).     Before we get started, here are a few things to remember: For all of these recipes, proportions are given for 500ml flip-top bottles. If you’re using smaller or larger...