
Explore making delicious vegan foods from around the world, including vegan cheese, fermented foods, breads, desserts, and tofu, all from scratch with practical kitchen tips.
Learn to craft delicious fermented foods with simple, no-special-equipment recipes, including sauerkraut, kimchi, preserved lemons, pickled vegetables, sourdough starter, and bread, with practical tips for clean jars and counter fermentation.
Learn to make sauerkraut with a simple cabbage, salt, and massaging method, then ferment in jars with optional flavors like caraway, turmeric, ginger, and dill.
Chop napa cabbage, daikon, carrots, and green onions; mix with a spicy vegan kimchi sauce using Korean chili powder, miso, garlic, and ginger; ferment three days, then refrigerate four days.
Make a brine with warm water, salt, and vinegar. Slice beets and turnips; layer with garlic and peppercorns, ferment three days, then refrigerate four more.
Preserve lemons with kosher salt and a cinnamon stick, ferment in a jar for at least three weeks to achieve a buttery texture and bold flavor.
Create a colorful, crunchy pickled vegetable medley in a dill-garlic brine. Layer cauliflower, carrots, celery, pepper, and cabbage in jars, ferment three days, then chill for four more.
Prepare dill carrots in a warm water and sea salt brine with garlic and peppercorns, cut into matchsticks, jar, rest on the counter, then refrigerate.
Learn to make a sourdough starter from flour and water using various flours. Feed daily for several days, store in a jar with a loose lid, refrigerate after day six.
Learn to bake seeded sourdough bread using whole wheat flour, starter, water adjustments, and seeds; allow a ten-hour rise, coat with seeds, and bake for crust with a hot-water method.
Always wanted to learn how to make your own fermented goods?
Join me for a fun fermentation class from your own kitchen - we will make simple, delicious recipes that don’t need any special equipment!
Enjoy an intimate experience at your own home, as we meet new ingredients and flavours, learn helpful kitchen tips, and prepare yummy recipes from scratch, in a wonderful hands-on experience!
Growing up, both my grandmas and my mom would pickle and ferment all kinds of goodies.
One of my earliest memories is of my next door neighbor’s kitchen - she had a big shelf filled with small and big jars of any vegetable and fruit you can think of - I remember being fascinated by those jars!
Even though it was around me and a part of my world, for a while, I still thought of fermenting as something complicated and intimating.
When I lived in Hawaii, I spent some time living on a biodynamic farm where the owner taught me a lot about fermenting, and we used to have fun fermenting parties in her outdoor kitchen - then I started exploring and experimenting more, and learnt some of my family’s recipes as well.
Not only are fermented foods delicious, they also provide us with many health benefits, like adding important nutrients to our diet, optimizing our immune system, detoxifying our bodies and helping us digest our food.
So join me and learn how to make your own fermented foods!
Special Notes:
Equipment required: blender (optional for 1 recipe – Kimchi)
All recipes in this class can be made gluten-free (except for 1 recipe: Seeded Sourdough Bread)
All recipes in this class can be made nut-free