Writing

Recipes, and everything else.

Seven years of recipes, notes, and working things out. Some of it is older than my certification and reads that way.

  • Potent Cold Brew

    Allow me to introduce the best method of cold brew I’ve found. I’ve tried nut milk bags in jars, the Kilner system, the Ball system and French press system (that one is still a…

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  • Dark Chocolate Espresso Cookies

    This recipe has been a long, long, long time coming. My favorite cookie growing up was one my mom made… it was double dark chocolate and about did my head in. I stopped being…

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  • Kefir Cream Cheese (And Whey for Culturing)

    My son loves cream cheese. When we were living in Ireland the kids were not allowed to go to school with peanut butter in their lunch, which is fair and common here as well,…

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  • Simple Probiotic Oat Granola

    Simple Probiotic Oat Granola is one of those quiet “how are we already out of this?” recipes in our house. It takes a few minutes to mix, cultures overnight, and turns into a lightly…

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  • Coconut Kefir Yogurt

    This is an everyday staple for me. It is gloriously delicious (if you like coconut) and smooth and thick as greek yogurt. I use milk kefir grains to culture coconut milk (always BPA free,…

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  • Cultured Cassava Kefir Pancakes (Gluten-Free)

    These are a thin, rollable pancake, more like dutch babies or crepes. I have been exploring substitutes for our einkorn to make breakfast a little more everyone friendly and to get a bit more…

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  • New Wine, New Wineskins: Why My Work (and This Space) Changed

    A New Thing Originally published August 27, 2020 · Updated with context in 2026 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine…

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  • Cultured Einkorn Kefir Pancakes

    Hey friends! As promised, I’m posting some of my family recipes in the absence of my ability to be creative with my own food at the moment… you know… the stuff I can actually…

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  • Roasted Garlic Cauliflower Hummus (Cultured, Keto, Vegan)

    Alright, my beauties. As most of you know… cultured hummus is my thing, my jam, my baby. I was strained to work within a particularly restrictive budget when we lived in Northern Ireland and…

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  • Cultured Black Bean Dip

    I worked this one out in Northern Ireland, in a stretch where my kids would eat black beans three ways and no others. Refried, cooked down with a ham bone, or cultured. Cultured is…

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