Category: infusing

• TEST KITCHEN – celeriac bacon?

  

  Ok. How far your brain can go? How insane I can possibly be? How many people are hanging a roasted inoculated dehydrated smoked ages celeriac bulb in their bedroom loft? Do I really want to know? As I said before a couple of times – my ‘geniusness’ will be appreciated only after my death. Or […]

  Kat

  January 10, 2022

  art, culinary, dairyfree, diet, elimination diet, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, glutenfree, infusing, kitchen, koji, sugarfree, technique, testkitchen, vegan, vegetarian

  ageing, awamori, bacon, celeriac, charcuterie, fermentation, koji, smoking, vegan, veganbacon, veganfood

• TEST KITCHEN – bread tea…

  

  Dear Diary :) – i started some weird sauces 5 months ago… by challenging myself to see what sort of surfaces I am able to grow koji on. Plus because I’m working in a bakery one thing I always have – LEFTOVER BREAD. So I was growing koji on sourdough, on brioche buns, croissants and […]

  Kat

  December 25, 2021

  bakery, culinary, fermentation, Foodporn, infusing, kitchen, koji, technique, testkitchen

  ageing, amino, bread, breadsauce, brioche, complexity, consomme, croissant, growing koji, jar, koji, shio, sourdough, umami, umami tea

• TEST KITCHEN – Kojiriac’

  

  Hello THere! I’m back with another interesting bit. You all remember I grew koji on beetroot not long time ago. I did it again – just using one of my big love as a vegetable – Mr Celeriac. I wanted to try this anyway – but also as a part of my koji-cooking-off menu for […]

  Kat

  December 13, 2021

  culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, glutenfree, home baking, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, koji, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian

  awamori, awamori koji, brine, brined, brown butter, celeriac, celeriac steak, dandelion, delicious food, experiment, fermentation, foraging, glaze, koji, koji menu, koji water, kombucha, salt baked, test kitchen, walnut

• ‘TEASER’ – Forage to Fork

  

  Let me show you some bits from my upcoming foraging cooking book – so you can decide easier if it’s the type of book you want to keep on the shelf or not. After the introduction, the first part of the book is about the little plants growing around. The second part of the book […]

  Kat

  October 26, 2021

  art, culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, home baking, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, memories, photography, technique

  book, bookproject, foragedfood, foraging

• TEST KITCHEN – kojeese ageing

  

  Hello hello Everyone. Thanks for joining me. Not going to talk too much sh@t apart from the things you are here for. :) So approx 25 days ago me and my very sweet cheesemaker Chef friend Szabi jumped into some crazy cheesemaking project while we inoculated our fresh raw milk with white rice and black […]

  Kat

  August 9, 2021

  culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, friends, home baking, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, koji, noma, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian

  ageing, ash, cheese making, cheese-making, delicious, experiment, fermentation, flavours, Foodporn, inoculated, kitchen, kojeese, koji, molds, orange wine, palinka, pizza, spirit, test kitchen, wine

• TEST KITCHEN – COTTAGEESE’ part II.

  

  Still in proccess. Some notes on my Cottage cheese black rice koji. Was resting in the same jar for a month time. The weather was crazy – sometimes even 40 degrees so avoiding the ‘rancidity’ i placed the bottle in the fridge from time to time. Nice ‘cheese-juice’ developed on the bottom. * Put the […]

  Kat

  July 24, 2021

  art, culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, glutenfree, home cooking, infusing, koji, noma, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian

  aging, carrot, cheese, cheese cloth, curing, fermentation, fermenting, koji, sour cream

• TEST KITCHEN – watermelonji’

  

  Next ad hoc test to try. Only because my brother in law left a small cube of watermelon in the fridge a couple of days ago… i though it could be interesting. And bingo! So if u follow me probably remember that i started to macerate some cheese pieces in a mixture of black koji […]

  Kat

  July 13, 2021

  art, culinary, dairyfree, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, glutenfree, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, koji, noma, sugarfree, technique, testkitchen, vegan

  24 hours, boozy, cheese, fermentation, fermenting, herbs, koji, koji kin, macerating, palinka, salad, salty, savoury, spores, tomato, umami, vegan, vegan steak, watermelon, watertomato, wild

• Wild flower power

  

  Im staying at my sis’ countryside house for a month in this summer to have some precious family time and also relax and trying to re-think my life and the purpose of my work and passion etc etc… So they live up in a small hill in a tiny village – in Kővágószőlős . The […]

  Kat

  July 11, 2021

  culinary, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, glutenfree, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, technique

  acid, balance, bugs, countryside, edible bugs, edible flowers, edible insects, family, familytime, flowers, Foodporn, foraging, forest sage, insects, lady's bedstraw, lemon balm, mint, oregano, pickling, pickling liqour, risotto, sage, spicies, sugar, vinegar, wild plants

• TEST KITCHEN – blackojeese’

  

  Hello Hello! After some traveling from A to B then B to Z and X then back…. finally i am in the same ‘time and space’ with my beautiful fermentation chamber, my pretty tiny rice cooker (new member of the test kitchen) and the *Oryzae spores of course with a handful of rice to cook […]

  Kat

  June 27, 2021

  culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, friends, glutenfree, home baking, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, koji, Sweetporn, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian

  aging, amazake, awamori, black koji, cheese, citric acid, curing, dinner party, fermentation chamber, fermenting, Foodporn, fresh cheese, healthy, koji, mold, shio koji, spores, test, testing, testkitchen, umami