Nothing to do with me, Dear Readers, I am not reading an old action filled comic, these are the noises she made after she drank some of a very special brew that has been hubbly-bubbling in a bucket in the YumYum HQ!
She has lots of Horseradish growing at the garden and came home with this very knobbly looking root, I thought, as she did also, that she was going to make Horseradish sauce but having discovered the loss of the Magimix knife, that plan had to change.
The strange root was banished to the white chilly larder until.. "Eureka" she cried "Hamburg Parsley with a little bit of Horseradish would blow any sock off".
But before she could go anywhere, she had to discuss air locks and grommets with cousin Bruce, who being his father's son, knows all about such things!
(Uncle Bob, Bruce's father, her uncle, hence we can say "Bob's my uncle".. was a spirit and wine maker).
So off and down she went to Brixton, a quick wiggle across the street and down onto Nursery Road and a right turn brought her underneath the arches and to a Master Brewer who sells you all the necessary equipment for not too much money.
HeeHee.. Back on the bus.. forget about us.. her bad humour banished.. she was very grumpy this morning for some reason.. could it be to do with the fact I gave her right hand a nasty hard crunch last night?
Less said about 'that' slip of manners the better.
Moving swiftly back to Brixton, she stuffed the equipment into poor old Wicker Wheelie and jumped a bus going up hill to Streatham.
Bartek, (Central Parade, Streatham) is the only place you can find Hamburg Parsley, lordy, we jurst lurve this stuff! Oh YUM!
Home again.. home again.. jiggedy jig! She gave the vegetables a good scrub, made a brine solution out of sea salt and whey and then chopped the vegetables straight into the liquid.
Having given them a good stir with a wooden spoon, she topped the bucket up with filtered water to within an inch of the top, placed a glass saucer on top of the vegetables to weight them down and put on the lid.
Which has an airlock and grommet fitted into it. She'd sterilised everything before starting the vegetables and just had to fill the airlock halfway up with water.
I know someone who will jurst lurve this! It's that Goaty Woman, aka Debbie of Ellie's Dairy, she thought the beet Kvass and whey fermented vegetables were 'pretty good' last week end, haha, just wait until she tastes these concoctions!
Also in line for a session with a fermenting bucket are a huge amount of our own red onions, oh yes, slurp that durp! But these are going to be done in a monster of a bucket, a proper 23 litre wine making bucket. We grew lots of them this year and cannot think of anything nicer than glass jars of red whey pickled onions.
She's off to the Farmer's Market at Parson's Green tomorrow to meet up with Debbie, for whom she has a BIG bottle of our own home made Beet Kvass. I am just crazy-daisy about those delicious fermented beets!
And she'll come home with several pints of raw Goaty milk with which to make the Kefir, which is where she gets the Whey from with which she ferments all our vegetables.
Yes, I know she could get it by straining yoghurt but we don't use shop bought stuff like that, she makes everything from scratch, like Ricotta which has not been made recently.. uh hum, do you think she'll take that hint?
Whoops.. it is B-E-D time for this Dolly.. PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip.. Must not bite her hand.. very naughty Beaky.
GeeGee Parrot.
July 19th, 2014.
She has lots of Horseradish growing at the garden and came home with this very knobbly looking root, I thought, as she did also, that she was going to make Horseradish sauce but having discovered the loss of the Magimix knife, that plan had to change.
The strange root was banished to the white chilly larder until.. "Eureka" she cried "Hamburg Parsley with a little bit of Horseradish would blow any sock off".
But before she could go anywhere, she had to discuss air locks and grommets with cousin Bruce, who being his father's son, knows all about such things!
(Uncle Bob, Bruce's father, her uncle, hence we can say "Bob's my uncle".. was a spirit and wine maker).
So off and down she went to Brixton, a quick wiggle across the street and down onto Nursery Road and a right turn brought her underneath the arches and to a Master Brewer who sells you all the necessary equipment for not too much money.
HeeHee.. Back on the bus.. forget about us.. her bad humour banished.. she was very grumpy this morning for some reason.. could it be to do with the fact I gave her right hand a nasty hard crunch last night?
Less said about 'that' slip of manners the better.
Moving swiftly back to Brixton, she stuffed the equipment into poor old Wicker Wheelie and jumped a bus going up hill to Streatham.
Bartek, (Central Parade, Streatham) is the only place you can find Hamburg Parsley, lordy, we jurst lurve this stuff! Oh YUM!
Home again.. home again.. jiggedy jig! She gave the vegetables a good scrub, made a brine solution out of sea salt and whey and then chopped the vegetables straight into the liquid.
Having given them a good stir with a wooden spoon, she topped the bucket up with filtered water to within an inch of the top, placed a glass saucer on top of the vegetables to weight them down and put on the lid.
Which has an airlock and grommet fitted into it. She'd sterilised everything before starting the vegetables and just had to fill the airlock halfway up with water.
I know someone who will jurst lurve this! It's that Goaty Woman, aka Debbie of Ellie's Dairy, she thought the beet Kvass and whey fermented vegetables were 'pretty good' last week end, haha, just wait until she tastes these concoctions!
Also in line for a session with a fermenting bucket are a huge amount of our own red onions, oh yes, slurp that durp! But these are going to be done in a monster of a bucket, a proper 23 litre wine making bucket. We grew lots of them this year and cannot think of anything nicer than glass jars of red whey pickled onions.
She's off to the Farmer's Market at Parson's Green tomorrow to meet up with Debbie, for whom she has a BIG bottle of our own home made Beet Kvass. I am just crazy-daisy about those delicious fermented beets!
And she'll come home with several pints of raw Goaty milk with which to make the Kefir, which is where she gets the Whey from with which she ferments all our vegetables.
Yes, I know she could get it by straining yoghurt but we don't use shop bought stuff like that, she makes everything from scratch, like Ricotta which has not been made recently.. uh hum, do you think she'll take that hint?
Whoops.. it is B-E-D time for this Dolly.. PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip.. Must not bite her hand.. very naughty Beaky.
GeeGee Parrot.
July 19th, 2014.
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