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When I started baking breads, years ago, I was looking for recipes thinking this is the most important part. As I started kneading, proofing and baking (and making mistakes) I realized that the recipe has almost no meaning, in the sense that all breads are the same: flour (various kinds), salt & water. Even if […]

Here is a Progressive rock genre influence map that I drawn, it is based on my personal taste, no new bands, but mostly 70s. There were some bands that I was very sure about, especially the ones that are close to the corners, like Soft Machine which is clearly more jazzy, Gong which are psychedelic, […]

I’ve been fermenting vegetables for some time. Fermentation is the process where beneficial microbes break down sugars in vegetables, creating acids that preserve them and add flavor. Fermenting is done in a closable glass jar, with added salt (and sometimes water, depend what you ferment) and letting it ferment (in room temperature), on your countertop […]

Firstly If you would like to read a beginner’s guide to fermentation click here. And without going in to all the science behind fermentation, here is fermented pepper sauce recipe. it’s very simple: What I like about fermented sauce is that it’s a live product, unlike posturized sauce you’ll buy on the store, which is […]

I did not write in this blog for quite a while, but when I did feel the urge to write, I was wondering what’s my motivation? a way to express myself? trying to connect with the outside world? How is it that I’m hardly writing on Facebook, but yet I write posts about pepper sauce, […]