Our Favorite Kimchi Recipe

Last winter ginger was our ingredient of the season. You can find our archive of ginger recipes here.

This is our well-tested kimchi recipe, and it’s a recipe that I’ve been wanting to share/document for a while.

What is kimchi? Most simply, it’s a spicy Korean side dish made from fermented vegetables, commonly a mix of cabbage, radishes, garlic, ginger, and chili.

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What to do with it? It’s (obviously) a common side for many Korean dishes. In our house, the most common way to eat kimchi is as an addition to a jazzed-up bowl of ramen. Sometimes we get creative with our uses. I love adding it to an egg salad sandwich.

If you’ve never had kimchi, you may want to start by sampling some in a restaurant or from the grocery store. Once you’ve found a version that you like, you can start to experiment by making your own!

Check out our simple recipe below.

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Fire Cider!

Ginger is our ingredient of the season, and you can find our complete archive of ginger posts here.

Have you heard of Fire Cider*? Some consider it a magic elixir others consider it crazy hippie medicine. No matter where you stand on the topic, we can all agree that it’s a bit hard to swallow without a good dose of honey.

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This is a post has been on the back-burner for a while. I’ve been wanting to write it and share one of our trusted winter elixirs, but at the same time, I don’t like to spout magic without having a bit of science to back me up.

In the end, I decided to share a recipe for fire cider along with a few links and a suggestion that you do your own research into food as medicine.

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