There are many ways to make your own sourdough bread and starter. I have been trying out sourdough bread since 2 decades with mixed success. The main key to success is not to give up. Many a times I have discarded a perfectly good sourdough starter due to laziness and being inconsistent with feeding the starter. Home made yeast culture is also tricky and very sensitive which is one reason why many beginners give up with time.
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Smoothies have taken our eating habits to a new level in the past few years since we have all those kitchen gadgets. If you are looking for a quick power smoothie recipe then here is one you should try out. When ever I make this smoothie for breakfast, I feel very satiated for many hours, as a result I sometimes skip lunch. If you have a busy day ahead and no time to cook lunch, this smoothie could be the one for you.
Idli is a popular South Indian breakfast dish. Learn how to make your breakfast prep stretch for a few days by just altering this Idly batter a little to have a completely different but a healthy breakfast everyday. In this post I will be sharing Idli recipe using Ultra Fastgrind wetgrinder.
Top 3 reasons to build a greenhouse
After a successful gardening year in 2018 Organic-vegetable-harvest with the help of our temporary greenhouse. We decided to build a new permanent greenhouse this year. There are many reasons to build a greenhouse or a hot house as it used to be called in days of yore. In this post I will be citing 3 main reasons to build a greenhouse and why we built ours. I will also touch on the subsidiary reasons pertaining to these main ones.
The laws in Switzerland are very strict with regard to building regulations. More over we have a stream flowing through our plot, so it makes it even more difficult. In the meantime our immediate neighbor built a garden shed last autumn adjacent to our plot. So that kind of gave us the hope that our new permanent green house wouldn’t be an objection to the planning authorities.
Top 3 benefits of grinding your own flour at home
Although I am not a medical expert, yet who can debate the benefits of home ground flour. My journey started with the purchase of my Hawos Oktagon grain mill. I posted a Hawos Oktagon stone mill Tutorial in my previous blog post. In this blog post I will be touching on the Top 3 benefits of grinding your own flour at home. I will also be giving a few tips on storing grains optimally and then a recipe to bake your own bread from freshly ground flour.
This Potato Dauphinois with paneer (fresh Indian cottage cheese) is a dish I have improvised from a cook book. This dish is tasty and very easy to make.
Hawos Oktagon Stone Grain Mill
Freshly milled flour has many benefits. We at the Swiss home are proud owners of Hawos Oktagon Stone Grain mill for more than a decade. I have been grinding my own flour for our breads, cakes and pizzas to name a few since I got this grain mill. Admitted this mill is not cheap to buy but in the long run it pays of with the many benefits of freshly ground flour at your fingertips.
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Switzerland is probably world famous for their Rolex and their Swiss Army knives. Likewise, in this blog post I will reveal more of Swiss quality and innovation also in their Kitchen tools. I have many favorites here and therefore it was difficult to pick my list of top 10 Swiss made kitchen essentials to suit any kitchen or cuisine. As a result of living for more than 2 decades in Switzerland I have a lot of Swiss kitchen essentials to write about.
Swiss Grocery shopping
Swiss grocery shopping is getting more and more complicated with many new German players who have entered the Swiss market. We at the Swiss home seldom shop at super markets. Early on we used to order organic food from farmers together with friends to make it more cost effective and economical. This was at a time when organic food was seldom available and an exclusivity of only the health food stores.
Over the past 2 decades, things have changed and we have easy access to high quality organic food all over Switzerland.
Ultra Fastgrind grinder vs Ultra Pride wet grinder review
In this blog post I will compare and review two of my Ultra Wet grinders. Ultra Fast grind versus Ultra Pride. Some weeks back I posted a review on the latest Ultra wet grinder called Fast grind Ultra Fastgrind wet grinder review. In a previous post, I also wrote about the benefits of wet grinding so I won’t be going into those details here.