Milk kefir and fresh peaches

How to make a refreshing drink with homemade milk and kefir cultures. 

This is one of the easiest and most rewarding ways to have a probiotic drink you can have.

With refreshing in season peaches and prepared milk kefir you have a lovely summertime refreshment.

There are many places to order your kefir cultures.  I found mine through an internet site and they were very good to order from.  My cultures arrived seamlessly and in 24 hours I had my first of many kefir smoothie.  I loved it. 

You should give it a try.  You will be glad you did.

 

Your directions are included with some recipes.

 

Kefir cultures into the milk.

 

24 hours later and you have a smoothie or you use it pancakes.  Yummy.

 

 

Order over the internet.  I did.

 

Sour Dough Bread

Here is my attempt at making sour dough whole wheat bread today.  It is a recipe that comes from bernd's bakery blog.  I have been following the Wild Yeast blog that is full of recipes and information on how to make the most delicious food.  Bernd's bakery had a link from a recipe he submitted and I found his recipe easy to follow.  I love sour dough and hope to find time to bake many more wholesome and good for you foods.  If you love the taste of sour dough then give the yeast starter a try.  It is a bit tedious as first and I know anyone can make it if I can.  Good Eating.  Jim

Spring is here

This is our garden this Spring.  We have had boatloads of strawberries and four varieties of lettuce to start the Spring.  The strawberries were planted last Spring and I deflowered all the plants through the season so they would get a good start growing a root system and now we have delicious berries everywhere.  The lettuce is romaine, bib, red and green leaf with some mesclun mix thrown in.  Very good and of course all organic makes it all taste so delicious.  The asparagus has given up some great tasting goodness that we have enjoyed as well.  Then there is cilantro, parsley, and a first for me has been the rhubarb that finally survived our hot humid summers to give us some wonderful rhubarb pie.  Whoa that was amazing!  The black raspberry bushes are producing and the birds have had there fill with them.  Next year I will net the plants so we can have berries to make jam.  Tomatoes are planted along with some pepper plants that are all doing well with all the goat manure trucked in.  Green beans, cucumbers, watermelon, lima beans, sunflowers, marigolds and one eggplant are what is left.  Oh, I forgot about the onions and dill.  That's about it.  The Spring has been great so far with plenty of rain and sun to get everything of to a good start.  Now time to keep the weeds and suckers pulled the bugs squashed and enjoy a great harvest Lord willing.