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Why You Should Never Throw Out Fruit Peelings
Jan26

Why You Should Never Throw Out Fruit Peelings

Posted By on Jan 26, 2021 in Christmas Melon, Cooking Tips & Tricks, How To Cook, Leftovers, Melons, Wine Tasting and Recipe | 0 comments

Don’t worry…I’m going to explain why you should Never Throw Out Your Fruit Peelings! At worst, they are added to my compost. At best, they are added to a batch of wine mash, I make a variety of tepache – typically, made with pineapple peels, but you can use other fruit peelings to make a version of tepache – or I make a fruit vinegar. I make small batches of these delights over the year. Never Throw Out...

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A New Member for Fermenters Anonymous
Dec30

A New Member for Fermenters Anonymous

Posted By on Dec 30, 2019 in Featured, Preserves & Canning | 0 comments

Once you decide to go ahead & try creating your own fermented treats at home, you may need Fermenters Anonymous! Someone should start Fermenters Anonymous, simply for avid lovers of fabulous home ferments to share their ideas, successes & failures. Trial & error – that’s how fermenters perfect their visionary projects. What Have We Been Fermenting? Wine: We often make our own homemade wine. This year, we went...

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American Beer Day: How Is It Made?
Oct27

American Beer Day: How Is It Made?

Posted By on Oct 27, 2013 in Adult Recipes, American Food Recipes, Best Beer Brands and Recipe, Ethnic Foods, Featured, Food Holidays | 0 comments

American Beer Day is upon us, and we’re celebrating the World’s most ancient beverage. Having been brewed for over 6000 years, to our knowledge. It has been a very popular drink in past history, and in our present age, has been beset with many layers of modern advertising & marketing. Don’t let the intense television images & other media depicting it to be a rather glamorous drink, rather than the humble...

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American Beer Week is Here!
Oct08

American Beer Week is Here!

Posted By on Oct 8, 2013 in Adult Recipes, American Food Recipes, Best Beer Brands and Recipe, Ethnic Foods, Featured | 0 comments

American Beer Week marks a day of celebration for many, and falls on the 2nd week of October. It’s possible that, worldwide, beer might be the oldest of alcoholic drinks since records indicate that beer has been brewed for over 6000 years. From a time centuries ago, it was referred to as “small ale” and families from the very young on drank it in place of water because many water sources were contaminated serving as...

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How to Make Your Own Ginger Beer
Aug07

How to Make Your Own Ginger Beer

Posted By on Aug 7, 2013 in Best Beer Brands and Recipe, Featured, Ginger | 0 comments

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably had ginger ale more times than you can count, but it’s a good bet you have never tried ginger beer. The two aren’t the same – ginger beer has a fiery, invigorating kick and is fermented just like beer. Some recipes make a very alcoholic drink, with up to 11% alcohol, but you can brew ginger beer with little or no alcohol content if you want. Ginger beer started out in...

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Web Chef Review: PX Vinegar
Feb24

Web Chef Review: PX Vinegar

Posted By on Feb 24, 2013 in Cooking Shows, Ethnic Foods, Featured, Spanish Food Recipes | 2 comments

I am really excited to share this food product with you today, called PX Vinegar, which stands for Pedro Ximenez Vinegar. Pedro Ximenez is a variety of grape, and comes from Spain. This vinegar is reminiscent of a balsamic vinegar in many ways, as it is dark in color. It is bitter, sour and sweet with finishing hints of fig, to my palate. This particular vinegar is made in the Solara method, which is a complicated way of fermenting in...

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Grape Season Means Making Wine At Home

Posted By on Aug 26, 2007 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

It is Grape Season!!! One of my very favorite times of year. Why? Because we make wine at home! My parents have made wine at home for many many years…As long as I can remember, actually. Every grape season, we choose what kind of grapes we want to use, and order them early from a local grower. We usually make our wine with concord, Agawam, and Niagara grape varieties. We pick up about 4 bushels of grapes, and use the grapes we...

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