Category Archives: Food

Fermenting sauerkraut in a crock

We love fermenting!
Sometimes we ferment our own sauerkraut.

Depending on the volume it can take at least 2 weeks up to several months.

If you don’t have crock pot weights, use a plastic bag filled with water.
(See below)

Mixture: Salt, juniper berries, dill, celery seeds and caraway.

  • Rinse Cabbage and clean. Cut out and discard the hard white center.
  • Take the largest leaves from one cabbage and lay them out at the bottom of your clean and rinsed out crock pot.
  • Shred the rest of the cabbage.
  • Add a layer of shredded cabbage over the laid out leaves in the crock pot. Sprinkle some of above mixture over this layer. Compress by stomping down with the stomper.
  • Repeat the layering process until you used up all the cabbage, salt, and juniper berries. After each layer stomp it down.
  • Pour all the luke warm water over the cabbage. That will activate the fermentation process.
  • Place clean crock pot weights over the cabbage and close the crock pot with the lid. Pour water into the ring of your crock pot and make sure there is always water in that.
  • Wait several weeks until cabbage is done fermenting into Sauerkraut.

Some books about the subject we own

Slavink en hamburgers

Notes:

  • Varkenssnippers 700gr
  • (Flinterdunne speklapjes) ik had omwikkelspek (3 zakjes)
  • 12-16 gram zeezout bij malen in
  • voor 500gr pittige gehaktkruiden

Variant:

  • 300 rundergehakt
  • 12 plakken gerookte ontbijtspek
  • 1 teen knoflook
  • 1 ei
  • Snuf peper en zout
  • 1 theelepel mosterd
  • 3 eetlepel paneermeel
  • 1 eetlepel gedroogde peterselie

Mijn vleesmolen

Bestron AMG600 – Elektrische Vleesmolen

Tips: Zorg dat je vlees goed koud is! Anders loopt de vleesmolen vast.

Cured Salmon Gravlax

Most of the times i use my cold smoker to smoke the salmon, below is a experiment i have to revisit!

Gravlax (Swedish: [ˈgrɑ̂ːvlakːs]) or graved salmon is a Nordic dish consisting of salmon that is cured using a mix of salt and sugar, and either dill or sprucetwigs placed on top, and may occasionally be cold-smoked afterwards. Gravlax is usually served as an appetizer, sliced thinly and accompanied by hovmästarsås “mustard sauce”, in Denmark as rævesovs, literally “fox sauce”, and in Iceland as graflaxsósa), a dill and mustard sauce, either on bread or with boiled potatoes.

In olden times, the salmon was buried in the ground to ferment. I packed mine in foil and buried it in the garden for a few days.

TODO : Post recipe!

Smoking nuts

Making your own smoked nuts beats storebought anytime!

UPDATE: We like them so much, making them several times a year.
In 2019 i bought a large offset smoker, so .. more nut at the same time.

Marinating

Using my weber

recipe i use (NO 1)

UPDATE 2021: Add paprika powder to spice it up .. (Thanks Vincent for this great addition)

Staircase pictures

Maybe you also have a white area to fill, here is a suggestion.

For years we collected picture frames, weird and ugly.
We wanted to have a collection of images in our staircase, to fill the white area.
The images are all something we like, have interest in or are personal.

It needed to be on 3 walls, so here was my first design.

Around the corner picture frame i made