Learn how to make apple scrap vinegar at home in just a few simple steps. You can use it the same way you’d use apple cider vinegar! Lady Lee’s Note… When you live this homesteading lifestyle, you develop an allergy to throwing food away. You see… It takes so much energy to grow food that…
Pickled beets are delicious and are a great ingredient to have on hand. They are vinegary and sweet and can last on the shelf for a long time. Growing up in Israel, beets were on the table at pretty much every meal. But always in the form of a beet salad, never pickled. In fact,…
Preserving peppers in vinegar and salt is super easy. It takes minutes to put this dish together and it’s a great way to preserve peppers. Let the jar ferment for a few days and once it’s ready it’s a healthy and tasty snack or an addition to salads or sandwiches. Lady Lee’s Note… One of…
Pickled garlic scapes are a delicious snack or side dish. They are firm, tangy, and healthy. Pickling garlic scapes is also a great way to preserve them for the long term and keep them at room temperature. Lady Lee’s Note… I have to admit, that to this point in my life, I don’t have a…
Fermented green tomatoes are tangy, healthy, delicious, and super easy to make. This is not only a great way to use and preserve unripe tomatoes but it’s also a delicious snack or side dish. Lady Lee’s Note… I had a little bit of a mess in one of my tomato rows in the garden this…
Pickled green tomatoes are easy to make and are delicious! They are tangy and healthy and a great way to use and preserve the last tomatoes of the season, the ones that often don’t have the chance to ripen all the way. Years ago, I decided that I hate tomato cages. It was hard to…
Fermented garlic scapes are an easy, healthy, and delicious snack! They can be added as a side to any dish and are a great way to preserve garlic scapes. It takes only a few minutes to put together a jar of these fermented garlic scapes! Garlic scapes are this premium crop that we eagerly wait…
Fermented cauliflower is a healthy sort of food that is great to have around. Instead of reaching for something sweet, fermented cauliflower can be a quick and healthy snack! This is also a great way to preserve cauliflower. Lady Lee’s Note… Cauliflower is one of those vegetables that you can use in a million different…
Fermenting beets is easy and the result is both tasty and healthy. It’s a great way to preserve your harvest and enjoy it longer. In this tutorial, I’ll show you just how easy it is to ferment beets. My favorite way of eating vegetables is fresh out of the garden. During the growing season, that’s…
Fermented radish is an easy way to preserve radishes. It takes minutes to put together and the end result is a delicious and healthy snack for the whole family. Lacto fermented radish is not as sharp as raw radish so even the kids love it! I used to grow radish in my garden but I…
Fermenting turnips is easy and quick! The fermenting process turns the turnips into a probiotic food that is both delicious and very healthy. This is a great way to preserve turnips! Confession time… I hate turnips. Ok, I don’t hate, HATE turnips but I just don’t like them much. I never grow them in the…
These lacto-fermented green beans are so easy to put together! It literally only takes minutes and it’s a great way to preserve green beans. Lacto-fermented green beans are a healthy and delicious summer snack! I grow a ton of beans in my summer garden. I grow pole beans, bush beans, and sometimes I also grow…
Fermenting cucumbers is an easy way to preserve the summer harvest. In Israel, lacto-fermented cucumbers are basically Israeli pickles, the ones I grew up consuming by the gallon. let me show you how to make Israeli pickles! There are so many ways to make pickles. Honestly, I didn’t know that there were so many ways…
Fermenting tomatoes is a great way to preserve tomatoes without cooking them and it takes minutes to prepare a huge jar. Learn how to lacto ferment tomatoes and use your fermented tomatoes as a side dish, in salads, or add them to sandwiches. My vegetable garden always consists of tomato plants. The garden just doesn’t…
Fermented jalapenos are super easy to make. They are a great addition to any sandwich or salad. They are spicy and salty and garlicky. Lacto fermenting jalapenos is also a great way to preserve jalapeno peppers. Lady Lee’s Note… I started growing jalapenos in my garden a few seasons ago mostly for others (I sell…
In this post, I’ll show you how to preserve lemon peel. There are a few ways to do this, but in this post, we are going to use oil and salt for this preserved lemon rind. It’s delicious! I love eating it with any chicken or fish dish or adding it to any sandwich. It…
In this post, I’ll show you how to preserve whole lemons the way my mom does it. I guess it’s the old Moroccan way of preserving lemons since she is Moroccan and learned it from her mother. You won’t believe how simple it is! My parents live in Israel, where I grew up. I now…