Wild Strawberry Honey Spritzer - very luscious and sweet, has a mild strawberry flavor, just starting to culture a tang. this particular one doesn’t have any carbonation.

Egyptian Bouza Beer - very rough and sour, made from mostly sprouted rye grains, it is a quick 2-3 day ferment and has little alcohol, but is very filling.

Sauerkraut - The plain cabbage always seems to evaporate off all the brine, then it becomes dry and rots. I haven’t had a good plain Sauerkraut turn out yet, the sesame kraut worked well, and the kimchees work too, but so far I have yet to get a tasty plain old kraut.

Spicy Live Kimchee - This is the most exciting venture!!! Mariah helped me a lot and it went much faster with two people. We put chilli powder in it this time, and green cabbage, onions, lots of grated carrots, and grated ginger, and just a teensy tad bit of salt. I’m so excited !!! yes haha!

Sourdough Bread - I took the spent grains from the bouza and mashed into a dough, it’s been resting out on the kitchen counter all day. I’m going to bake it tonight. SandorKraut says to cook it enough to make a hard shell on the outside, but not enough to cook the inside. That way you have a self-contained unit and you can just let it sit out and continue fermenting in the middle for a few weeks. It sounds interesting, I’ll let you know!

Do you remember trying fermented foods? What did you think?

i just ordered 24 pounds of raw, unheated, coldpacked honey from Pacifica for $124, including shipping. It is going to be here within a week…and even cooler…I got one 12 lb jar of Eucalyptus honey, and one 12 lb jar of avacado honey…how-freakin-cool?

drop a comment if you want to know how to order it, or if you want me to send you a free sample to try out…it’s beyond perfectly divine. you ain’t had no honey like living honey.

i’ve already got a cult…next we’re going to start building honey cathedrals, and writing honey scripture. want to join? are you…soft n’ lush and woman, and like to be naked and get muddy and run around the forest? oh good….i’m sure you’ll fit right in.

This is the color of the avocado honey…only I’m ordering the BIG jar of it..check this out…

I’m gonna be so loaded…i need to get bigger crocks now!!! kitchen meadville here I come!!!

they’re killing us all, white, black, blue, red, or brown, don’t believe me? step outside and start walking.

here are some very cool people I found today…i like the Cheeseslave woman a lot, it’s so nice to see people talking about raw milk, agro-industrial terrorism, fermentation, and so much more! thankyou!!! i tend to forget that there are other people out there that are aware of these things, because sometimes it really depresses me when I think about it all, and it doesn’t seem to concern most people.

you don’t see me trying to fix things either, for shame…!

on a side note I fixed up my TinTin++ script for the mud called Duris. Duris is one of my favorite pastimes over the years. I haven’t talked about muds much here, but perhaps I should. You can check out the homepage here. You have to have a ‘telnet’ client of some sort in order to connect. If you are using windows, then zMUD is a good client to use. If you have a linux box, TinTin is MUCH more powerful.

It’s a really fun little community, very real and scary sometimes too and i really like to spend time with these people, but sometimes i feel that i do it too much :P Maybe if I just talked about it more, and played on it less it’d turn out okay.

I also wrote a VIM syntax file for editing tintin scripts that is really pretty and I like it. You can download it here.

Here is a picture of what your mudscripts look like under this syntax…

Pretty huh???? yes…yes my pretties.!! That is a script I am working on called durisframe, that overlays a sort of sedentary ‘HUD’ to duris’s fast paced scrolling environment, that allows you to keep track of certain statistics…like your health, or what spells your L21 conjurer currently has memorized, how many kills you’ve made, the health of your groupmates…etc It’s pretty useful, and when I clean it up and comment it a bit, I’ll post it here. All that is thanks to Scandum, who has put heroic amounts of his energy into creating and maintaining tintin for all us mudjunkies out there.

I just received kimchee in the mail at work today! I’m been wanting to do this for such a long time…it started out with me rapidly becoming addicted to these small 15oz jars of ‘Rejuvenative’ brand fermented kimchee at the grocery store. They’re soooooo Freakin Good, i want to start screaming at people. I’ve been trying to imitate making them for a while but with little luck so far.

The catch here is these little buggers are $10 a jar, and last me aprox 10 mins with a little self restraint…lately i’ve been running out of the self restraint and unwilling to forego my kimchee addiction, I manuevered for a better position…ordering the stuff online in bulk.

This kimchee is made by the deer garden foods people and sold on the website http://www.rejuvenative.com, on this website not only can you order much larger quanities of kimchee but you also can get an assort of fresh raw nut butters, raw cold pressed oils, other fermented veggie delicacies, and live fermented salsa. Anyway, thankyou deer garden folk…I hope this is the start of a long and beautiful relationship!

So about this kimchee…welll it’s pretty tight stuff. The ingredients are dirt simple. And consequently you can also make it yourself, here is a link to my post Spicy Living Kimchi.

* certified and grown organicly
Cabbage*, carrots*, onions*, Celtic Sea Salt®, ginger*, ground dried red peppers*

And besides being wickedly delicious, absurdly addicting, and frantically exciting, it makes you FEEL GOOD! This is full of life, and your body knows it. I’ve been having a rather rough time being happy lately, but with a Very Large jar of kimchee sitting in my fridge right now, I don’t even give a shit. Send me down the tubes, kiss my ass goodbye, but i’m taking my kimchee with me dangnabbit!

I had several hours of almost dedicated research time at work today and this is what I’ve learned.

Most importantly.
Coffee is my friend. Chocolate fudge does NOT help me concentrate. Syndk8 is wonderful. Full of information, now if I just knew what to do with it all.

I do not learn well by exhausting myself with reading, need more ‘doing’.

I need better systems of organizing information that can trans-correspond [yup] between work and home. Currently testing out Gbookmarks for quality links, and backpack for further investigation and browsings.

I wish I had paid a LOT more attention in web design class back in high school. That would have been nice.

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On a different note, I made some purple potatoe and parsnip soup for the practice last night, it was delicious! The recipe was out of Jessica Prentice’s book Full Moon Feast. I’m cooking dinner at wolfkeep this coming sunday night and I’m trying out lots of recipes beforehand. I have a lamb shoulder to roast too…anyone like roasts and want to share some sekrets?