Things have been fermenting, fizzing, and growing.
Do you like science? If so, now is a perfect time to try experiments. Let’s check back in on the apple cider, sourdough starter and the cute lil’ micro greens.
The apple cider vinegar is a hoot, I love this. Everyday I just take it out and give it a couple swirls, making sure the apple stay submerged underneath the liquid. It smells like a fresh pint of apple cider, it smells amaaaazing! It’s frothy up top, and I can see little micro streams of bubbles coming from the apples. The apples haven’t fully sunken yet. Not sure when that’s supposed to happen, but they still look crisp. I mean…
I decided tonight, about two hours ago, I wanted to try to taste it.
Not great. Not terrible, but there’s only enough sugar added to start fermentation, not to develop great depth of flavor. Like sweetness. Good thing it’s gonna be vinegar.
Stepping out of the kitchen and into my bedroom where I have a little plastic spaceship parked in my window. It took about four days for these guys to right themselves up and root down in the container, but here they are!
Thinking these will be good on a turkey burger with some goat cheese, what do you think? They probably wont be ready to munch and crunch for another 5 days or so, so I have time to decide. I gotta say, it’s really fun having a small patch of greenery in the window. My last patch of micro greens got a lot of pats. Very satisfying.
And on to my tried and true sourdough starter. My pride and joy. My reason for accepting a job that has me working ungodly hours for the fulfillment of passion. My Bitch.
Mistakes were made.
In one week she is blowing off her lid and demanding to be given attention (and food) lest she throw herself onto the counter top and have a fit. My Bitch.
I fed her straight rye and pineapple juice the first day, which if you’re one of my two followers, you’ll already know. Ignored her the second day to let things develop (bitches love when you ignore ’em). Fed her the same diet the next three days in a row (so mon-wed) then switched her diet to 25% rye and 25% whole wheat and 50% water. Her texture began to change a bit after that. She started to loosen up a bit, and by Friday she was beautiful and spongey and smelled of dough and faint pineapple. Today she didn’t stop rising until about 18 hours after I fed her yesterday, so I’m gonna let her keep falling slowly and feed her in the morning. If anything bad happens I’ll write a confessional booth post.
I’ll make a loaf out of her sometime this week, but I want to give the pineapple taste a chance to disappear. Although, we did make a coconut and banana sourdough loaf at my work once and it was soooooo good. I had so many doubts, but my boss insisted and there’s a reason why I am not the boss yet. Still so much to learn.
Cheers
-Rieu
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