Fermented Foods at Every Meal Book Review

I received a copy of Without Grain by Hayley Barisa Ryczek in exchange for my honest review.

I think by now most of my readers understand the important of probiotics in our diets and how helpful fermented foods are to get them into our bodies regularly. But sometimes it is hard to really be regular with serving these foods and days can go by without anything on our tables.

Well Hayley Ryczek understand this challenge and she has come up with a solution for us with her new cookbook, Fermented Foods at Every Meal. In this lovely book, Hayley covers ten basic fermented foods and shows us how to implement them in meals daily. The ten foods she covers include creme fraiche, kefir, dried fruit chutney, fermented ketchup, fermented ginger orange carrots, sauerkraut, fermented sweet pickle relish, sweet and spicy tomato mango salsa, and yogurt.

Then she shares a number of recipes in each chapter using that particular food. So for instance, in the sauerkraut chapter she first tells us how to make sauerkraut and then she gives us 9 recipes that use sauerkraut so we can make it and use it during the week and not get bored, because we are eating it in so many interesting ways.

I am looking forward to finally making creme fraiche and the trying some of the recipes she gives for this fermented food. I have never made it before and it is one food that works well with the low carb, high fat diet which my husband and I are following right now.

I love the pictures in the book. They make me want to try some of the different recipes.

The only negatives for some people is that not everyone is going to be interested in making dried fruit chutney (I don’t think I will make that one) or sweet and spicy tomato mango salsa. Again as someone on a low carb diet this two are both out for me.

But if you are serious about getting more fermented foods in your diet, this cookbook is a great resource. There are easy to follow instructions for each of these basic fermented foods and then lots of great recipes to spark your creativity and bring variety to your diet.

I have the opportunity to give away 1 copy of this lovely cookbook to one of my readers. Giveaway opens Monday August 29th and ends Labor Day, September 5th.

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And I also recommend another cookbook of hers called Without Grain.