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babyblueetbaemonster · 16 days

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Local Alchemist needed to be stopped.

My formula of restore fatigue:

Spring salad: lettuce, radish, potato, (optional: apple, orange, watermelon). Unfortunately it has Burden side effect. (if choose orange, you'll get a bonus Shield effect) Can also side with Ranch dressing: cheese wedge, leek, onion, garlic. And this one has Damage Agility side effect. It can be fix by removing the garlic.

Potato soup: potato, garlic, leek. This recipe has Frost Shield side effect. Perfect choice for a cold weather.

Corn salsa: corn, tomato, onion, garlic. Unfortunately it has Damage Agility side effect, but you can get Detect Life in the process.

Grilled cheese sandwich: bread loaf, cheese wedge, cheese wheel. Unfortunately it has Damage Agility side effect. I should have removed the cheese wedge. Sorry Baurus :(

Classic ham sandwich: bread loaf, cheese wedge, ham, lettuce. Unfortunately this recipe also has Damage Agility side effect, but bonus Fire Shield woohoo!

Gyudon: beef, onion, rice

Mix berries: blackberry, strawberry, (we only have two kinds of berries?) (optional: apple, orange, pear). Actually, don't put apple or pear in it. They will cause Damage Health.

Crabby corn soup: crab, corn, onion. You can add cheese wedge for bonus Fire Shield (and Damage Agility) effect.

Chili con carne: beef (/boar meat /mutton /venison), onion, garlic, tomato. Side effect is Detect Life. (Beef flavor will grant you Shield effect. Unfortunately Boar meat will have burden side effect and Venison is Damage Health)

Pumpkin pie: pumpkin, sweetcake (/flour /sweetroll). Unfortunately both flour and sweetroll has Damage Personality side effect

Carrot cake: carrot, sweet cakes

Strawberry cheesecake: strawberry, cheese wedge, flour (/sweetcake /sweetroll). The flour version has Reflect Damage side effect. I highly recommend it.

#tes #oblivion #hero of kvatch #baurus #tes oc #oc: acelta #oblivion alchemy could be full of flavor and nonsense #i don't have any mushroom recipe bc i'm not sure about the flavors #but it's cool to know most shroom in oblivion is safe to eat (the first alchemy effect is restore stuff #i love how the 3rd era folks incorporated food in their potions #but my recipes are not perfect for i lack some good ingredients like salt and pepper and butter and cream and broth and vanilla extract...#can i season it afterwards? just a pinch of salt? or sugar? or sauce?#can i put two different flavor of potions in a shaker and make two balanced flavor potions? like drink them in one go?#most potions are made by distillation methods (with alembic and retort) so the flavor probably is subtle #i watch some show with bartender use this rotary evaporator to distill drink ingredients #and the final product is clear liquid with a hint of it's original flavor #so maybe that's what oblivion potion is like. some flavored water #wait... is- is potion like some kind of wired flavor soda?#as a alchemy 100 mad lad i can make potion from a single ingredient so i can literately make a ham water of restore fatigue

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paleorecipecookbook · 6 years

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10 Pro Tips for Fermenting (Plus 8 Recipes)

An unhealthy gut contributes to a plethora of maladies, and is often overlooked as a simple solution to a number of chronic problems like IBS, leaky gut, inflammation, eczema, acne, weight problems, fatigue, and more.

It’s important to pay attention to what is going on in the gut. Are you digesting properly? Are you bloated? Are you getting sick often? Keeping your gut’s “good bacteria” happy is a great way to arm yourself against both common and serious sickness and disorders.

Introducing more beneficial bacteria to your body can help rebalance and promote healthy intestinal flora. Making ferments a part of your daily diet may help to: (1)

Balance your intestinal health

Give you more energy

Ease inflammation

Build immunity

Heal digestive troubles

All About Fermenting

Fermentation was originally acclaimed for its food-preserving capabilities without the need to dry, freeze, cure, or can. Fermentation breaks down raw food into more easily digested components, and preserves the food by inhibiting harmful bacteria growth, and also releases helpful and gut healing bacteria. Ferments are a good source of live Lactobacillus, one of the beneficial types of gut bacteria.

There is a lot of awesomely-heady science behind fermentation. As far as incorporating ferments into your daily Paleo diet, here is the simplified version.

Lacto-Fermentation

Lacto-fermentation is the traditional process of fermenting fruits and veggies. It is likely that your ancestors made lacto-ferments to preserve their summer harvests for the cold and dark winters! The ‘lacto’ refers to lactobacillus, aka “friendly bacteria” or “the good guys.”

There is beneficial bacteria present in the air, on your skin, and also on the skin of fruits and vegetables. This bacteria feeds on the naturally occurring sugars and starches of the fruit or vegetable that you are fermenting, encouraging the growth of more beneficial bacteria which in turn metabolizes the sugars and creates a brine of sorts, which is lactic acid.

The lactic acid produces an anaerobic and acidic environment, in which probiotics can thrive. Keeping your item submerged beneath this beneficial brine is important since oxygen exposure to your ferment risks pathogenic bacteria, or the bad type. Additionally, stray mold spores getting in and disrupting all the work that your “good bugs” are up to can contaminate and ruin your ferment.

Anaerobic vs. Aerobic Fermentation

Lacto-fermentation produces lactic acid which can only be created in an anaerobic environment, one that lacks oxygen entirely. Krauts, pickles, kimchi, chutneys, and other fruits and veggies that you can ferment at home will rely on this anaerobic environment.

Aerobic fermentation is when oxygen is present. Ferments like beer, wine, apple cider vinegar, and kombucha are exposed to oxygen in the beginning stages to develop flavor and to create the proper pH levels. The sugars present are converted into ethyl-alcohol in the case of these tasty beverages.

Small Batch Is King

Ferments are spontaneous by nature. So you will be hard pressed to find big business lines of food ferments, like yogurts, pickles, and krauts that actually have active probiotics. Large scale production of many food stuffs rely on consistency and sterilization. The art of fermentation is a far cry from these large-scale protocols.

If the container of your favorite store-bought fermented food uses tricky language, like “MADE with live and active cultures,” that doesn’t mean that it still contains those after processing is done. All fermentation—commercial or homemade—starts out with live and active cultures. Commercial, big-batch lines treat with heat for a longer shelf life and consistency of product, thus killing any live cultures that were once present.

Some storebought ferments are possible thanks to small batch producers that continue to use the lacto-fermentation methods. These items are usually found in health food stores in the refrigerated section and expressly say “contains live and active cultures.” It may even state that they do not use high heat to pasteurize their products, thus leaving the gut-healing properties intact. Small batch is best!

Not All Pickles Are Ferments

Most pickles you see on the shelf at your supermarket are stored in vinegar and are not fermented. Vinegar is a tasty way to pickle but definitely lacks any enzymatic or probiotic benefits.

Traditionally fermented pickles, also called sour pickles, are fermented by using a simple solution of unrefined sea salt and clean chlorine-free water. Lactobacilli is present on the outside of the cucumbers and creates lactic acid which then pickles the product.

10 Tips for Fermenting At Home

Perhaps you take a probiotic supplement, or you have found your favorite line of small-batch local kraut teeming with live and active cultures, but the best way to get fermented foods into your life is to make them yourself! Here are some tips for home-fermentation, and my favorite, very simple, recipes!

1. Don’t Expect Perfection the First Time

Do not be discouraged if something doesn’t go perfectly the first time. Fermentation is a spontaneous practice. Environmental conditions, contaminants, and the bad bacteria can and do happen from time to time. The more you ferment on your own, the more you will learn and can tweak your recipes, whether it’s the amount of salt you use for taste or tweaking the amount of time you leave your jar to ferment. Hint: it happens faster in warmer and humid months, but requires more time in the colder, damper months.

2. Know Whether It’s Mold or Good Bacteria

A tinge of green or clear liquid floating to the top of your ferment is a natural separation of liquid and is harmless, go ahead and stir it in and enjoy. If your item has a smell beyond a touch of sulphur or is slimy and heavily molded with colorful reds, brown, and black, toss it out. The air got in there somewhere in the process and disrupted the anaerobic environment. Keep on trying and tweaking, because once you get the hang of it, fermenting is fun!

3. Salt and Water Quality Matter

When fermenting, always use high quality and uniodized sea salt and unchlorinated, clean or distilled water.

4. Get the Gear

Using official fermenting crocks, lids, weights, and airlocks is much more foolproof than attempting the first time with random jars. You can ferment in a variety of homemade vessels fitted with homemade lids and the like, but if you are new to fermenting, getting the official gear is a great way to get started. It will also help you get more comfortable with the process before you get creative with your fermenting vessels.

5. Sterilize and Prepare

If you are using homemade fermenting vessels, like mason jars, be careful to sterilize first and also to ‘burp’ them often to release the pressure built up from the fermentation process.

6. Taste As You Go

You can taste your ferments as you go to get an idea of where they are in the process, but know that the more you open and expose your ferment to oxygen, the more at risk it is to developing bad bacteria. Use clean utensils to taste, and always clean utensils or hands to press and pack down your fruits and veggies below the brine.

7. Brine

If there is not enough “brine” being created from the massaging process, make your own brine of one part salt to four parts water. It is important that your ferments are always submerged beneath the brine while fermenting so that they don’t develop bad bacteria with exposure to air.

8. Salt Balance

If your final product is too salty for your taste buds, add a few tablespoons of water. Do not rinse, since that will also rinse away the good bacteria that you so carefully crafted.

9. Texture

Chilling your cucumbers, cauliflower, carrots, berries, etc. in an ice water bath before you start to ferment helps to perk them up! A 20 minute ice bath will help the items maintain a good texture by the end of the fermentation process and improve their taste, especially for people who are sensitive to food textures.

10. Experiment With Eating

You can eat your ferments on their own, but you can also use your ferments as a condiment. Add them to the top of eggs, salads, incorporate into collard wraps, and use as a side dish with steak, chicken, and fish! If you’re new to eating fermented foods, easing in and getting creative with how to use them will make them easy to eat.

8 Recipes to Ferment At Home

1. Classic Kraut

1 medium green cabbage

1 tsp sea salt

In a clean large mixing bowl, shred cabbage and sprinkle with salt.

With clean hands, massage cabbage for about 15 minutes or until ample juice has formed.

Pack the massaged cabbage into your fermenting vessel and pour liquid over. Pack the cabbage down so the liquid line is well above the cabbage. Place your plate or weight atop the packed cabbage and fit your lid to the vessel. Leave out on countertop or in pantry.

Taste over the course of two weeks or so, or until your desired tanginess is achieved. Store in fridge for up to six months.

2. Red Cabbage and Beetroot Kraut

1 small to medium red cabbage

1 medium beet

½ tsp caraway seed or juniper berry, freshly ground

Several sprigs of fresh dill, chopped or torn

In a clean large mixing bowl, shred cabbage and beet and sprinkle with salt.

With clean hands, massage cabbage for about 15 minutes or until ample juice has formed.

Stir in caraway or juniper berry and dill.

Pack the massaged cabbage into fermenting vessel and pour liquid over. Pack the cabbage and beet mix down so the liquid line is well above the cabbage.

Place your plate or weight atop the packed cabbage and fit your lid to the vessel. Leave out on your countertop or in pantry.

Taste over the course of two weeks or so, or until your desired tanginess is achieved.

3. Coconut Milk Yogurt

1 can of full fat coconut milk, or just the cream from 2-3 cans

1 T raw honey or grade B maple syrup

1 probiotic capsule

In a sterile jar, add your coconut milk and honey. Pop open the probiotic capsule and stir the contents into the sweetened coconut milk. Lightly screw on the jar lid and place in oven with the light on for 7-9 hours. Do not turn ON the oven, you want a warm-ish and draft free zone for the cultures to “cook.”

If you would like a thicker yogurt, use only the cream.

4. Raspberry Preserves

1 cup of fresh and clean raspberries

1 T raw honey or grade B maple syrup

1 T of leftover brine from kraut or yogurt

Mash or blend berries and add to sterilized vessel.

Stir in sweetener and leftover brine and fit with lid.

Let hang out on your countertop or in your pantry for about two days. Do not leave out past two days.

Refrigerate and enjoy atop yogurt, pancakes, as a spread, on Paleo ice cream, etc.

5. Real Pickles

4 lbs of cucumbers, scrubbed clean

2 T sea salt

Enough water to cover cucumbers completely, about 3 qts

3-4 cloves of garlic, peeled

2-4 horseradish leaves

Handful of fresh dill

½ t mustard seed

½ t black pepper

½ t allspice

½ t coriander

½ t chili powder

Stir salt into distilled or spring water until dissolved.

Add all items to fermenting vessel and pour over brine.

Fit your fermenting vessel lid and let ferment for up to two weeks, tasting every couple of days. Store in fridge when your pickles are pickled to your liking.

6. Savory Fruit Kimchi

1 small napa cabbage, shredded (reserve outer leaves)

¼ yellow onion, thinly sliced

½ red bell pepper, thinly sliced

½ mango, cut into thin strips or batons

½ c pineapple, crushed or small dice

1 carrot, grated

1 small jalapeno, thinly sliced

1 thumb of ginger root, peeled and minced or grated

2 radish, thinly sliced or mandolined

3 green onion, thinly sliced on a bias

3 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced

1 lime, juiced

small torn handfuls each of cilantro, mint, basil

1 t sea salt

1 T coconut aminos

1 T fish sauce

1 t Korean chili flake (Gochugaru)

Add all of your prepared veggies, fruits, and herbs to a bowl and sprinkle with salt.

Massage for about 15 minutes or until juices are released and vegetables are all softened.

Stir in coconut aminos and fish sauce and pack tightly in your fermenting vessel. Be sure the liquid line is well above the veggies. You may use the tougher outer leaves to cover your packed veggies if you would like the little extra protection from air contaminants. Use your fermenting weights or fit with your weight plate and cover.

Let ‘cook’ for about two weeks, of until desired taste is reached.

7. Kimchi

1 small napa cabbage, shredded (reserve outer leaves)

¼ yellow onion, thinly sliced

½ red bell pepper, thinly sliced

1 carrot, grated

1 chili pepper, thinly sliced

1 thumb of ginger root, peeled and minced or grated

2 radish, thinly sliced or mandolined

3 green onion, thinly sliced on a bias

3 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced

1 t sea salt

1 T coconut aminos

1 T fish sauce

1 t Korean chili flake, (Gochugaru)

Add all of your prepared veggies to a bowl and sprinkle with salt. Massage for about 15 minutes or until juices are released and vegetables are all softened.

Stir in coconut aminos and fish sauce and pack tightly in your fermenting vessel. Be sure the liquid line is well above the veggies. Use the tougher outer leaves to cover your packed veggies for extra protection from air contaminates.

Use your fermenting weights or fit with your weight plate and cover. Let ferment for about two weeks, of until desired tanginess is reached. Be sure to continually press down your fermenting items below the liquid line.

8. Cashew Cheese

2 cups cashews, soaked overnight, rinsed and strained

Distilled or spring water

1 lemon juiced

1 t sea salt

2 probiotic supplement capsules, broken apart

¼ tsp black pepper (optional)

1 clove of garlic, minced (optional)

2 chives, chopped (optional)

To a high-powered blender, add your soaked cashews and enough water to come about halfway over the nuts.

Start blending on low, slowly increasing speed, working the batter with a spatula, and streaming in a little bit of water at a time as you go, until you have a very smooth and creamy mixture.

Add lemon juice, salt, and the contents of both of the probiotic capsules. Add other optional ingredients if using.

Fit a fine mesh sieve to a bowl so there is enough room in the bottom of the bowl to catch liquid beneath the sieve, and line with a cheesecloth.

With the help of a spatula pour out ‘cheese’ mixture into the lined sieve to strain overnight, up to two days.

Refrigerate and serve.

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didanawisgi · 7 years

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The evidence

Despite the hundreds of thousands of posts on kombucha praising its medicinal and health effects, I was unable to identify a single clinical trial for any specific use. There’s a systematic review by Edzard Ernst dating to 2003 that also failed to find any clinical trials or even case series that suggest kombucha has medically beneficial uses. So there is no evidence to demonstrate or even hint at efficacy. Based on what’s known about the active ingredients, there’s no reason to expect it would offer any medicinal effects other than the consequence of low levels of alcohol or caffeine.

The toxicity

Given this is usually a home-brew concoction, there is the significant risk of contamination. In contrast to the lack of benefit, there is good documentation of the potential for harms associated with kombucha:

an alcoholic developed jaundice after two weeks, which resolved after discontinuation

dizziness, nausea and vomiting that resolved with discontinuation and restarted with rechallenge

toxic hepatitis that resolved with discontinuation

metabolic acidosis and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, resulting in subsequent cardiac arrest and death

metabolic acidosis, cardiac arrest (with recovery)

anthrax infections of the skin through topical application of kombucha

lactic acidosis and acute renal failure

lead poisoning secondary to making it in a ceramic pot

Given the potential for kombucha to grow potentially dangerous pathogens, it’s particularly important for those with compromised immune systems to avoid the product. Given the risks, pregnant or lactating women should avoid kombucha as well.

Kombucha sells out

Kombucha isn’t limited to the home brewer anymore, there are several commercial suppliers such as Synergy (touted by Dr. Oz, of course) and the requisite story of the breast cancer survivor who credits kombucha for her health (but not the chemo and radiation she also accepted). The claims come fast and furious: the fermented liquid heals all and cures all – digestion, immune system “boosting”, amino acids that “detoxify”. You can now find it combined with different juices and flavors, for those that don’t like the taste of the original. The recipes are the same, and the final products are not pasteurized, a situation that caused products to be pulled in the United States until producers found ways to stop the alcohol from exceeding 0.5%.

The bottom line

The best that can be said about kombucha is that it probably won’t kill you. There are no documented health benefits, so unless you really like the taste, there’s no clear reason to consume it. As I have written before, health decisions should be based on an evaluation of the risks and benefits. In the case of kombucha, the benefits, other than the subjective, are unsubstantiated. The risks are real, but also rare. So if that bet still looks attractive, kombucha may be for you. To each his own fermentation. As for me, I’ll stick with my own favourite fermentations: IPA and wheat beer, and pass on the moonshine panacea.

#kombucha #alternative medicine #herbal medicine #integrative medicine

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