October is generally a time when the days start getting shorter, the nights get cooler, and we experience the first frost here in Northern Illinois. This fall, though, the weather hasn’t really seem to get the message that it’s dark by 6:30 p.m. and today as I drove by the bank and saw that the …
Fermentation – Simple and Delicious
Photo credit: That Bill Fellow via Visualhunt / CC BY-SA Before I started fermenting things in my kitchen, I had a very different mental picture when I thought of "fermentation". I imagined something with a strong sour smell, maybe something putrid, a mad scientist-like character watching something bubbling and brewing and spilling over …