Tag: umami

• Test Kitchen – veg’fudge?

  

  Recently i enjoyed some mind-blowing koji parsnip for dinner. It was the ‘celebration’ dinner actually after the successful dry January and elimination diet… i cooked some very simple risotto and served it with koji inoculated parsnips. I am not going to lie at this point – after a dry month i got quite drunk with […]

  Kat

  February 14, 2022

  culinary, elimination diet, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, home cooking, kitchen, koji, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian, wine

  brine, dehydrating, dinner, fermentation, Foodporn, fudge, inoculating, koji, kojifudge, parsnip, rehydrating, roasting, swede, test, test kitchen, umami, veg fudge, vegetables

• 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 – cashew kojeese 2nd round

  

  Apologies for the wait. My fluffy tablet crashed and i ‘kindof’ lost all my data (including my almost ready book) so i was struggling with the online part of my life recently. Anyways. So i did a second round of my cashew cheese project inoculated with koji spores. This time i was trying out some […]

  Kat

  October 13, 2021

  culinary, dairyfree, fermentation, Foodporn, glutenfree, home cooking, kitchen, koji, noma, sugarfree, technique, testkitchen, vegan, vegetarian

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• TEST KITCHEN – vegan nutji’ :)

  

  I used to make different nut blocks as a vegan alternative for dairy cheeses – you can see here back in the day.. . \i tried different molds already like roquefort and camembert – very interesting results here – but my real favourite was always a simple well seasoned lacto ferment. Now when i could […]

  Kat

  August 23, 2021

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• TEST KITCHEN – real kojeese’

  

  — i share these experiments to learn from mistakes and growing together with knowledge – but i also dont take any responsibility if you follow my way and getting into some troubles. I can not be blamed and be responsible for any consequences of misreading and/or misunderstanding any information written herein, so be crazy as […]

  Kat

  July 28, 2021

  fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, home cooking, kitchen, koji, photography, technique, testkitchen

  ash, aspergillus oryzae, awamori, black, challenge, cheese making, contamination, cultures, curd, kojeese, koji, milk, oryzae, rennet, spirit, spores, umami

• 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

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• 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

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• TEST KITCHEN – AMAZAKE

  

  Keep continue ‘KOJILAND’ post. So i was playing all around with amazakes – usually with a mistake of leaving it fermenting a touch longer than i wanted to. Sweet amazake: 1 part koji rice, 1 part steamed rice and 2 parts of water (for example, 250g koji rice with 250g steamed rice and 500g water) […]

  Kat

  April 3, 2021

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• TEST KITCHEN – KOJIland

  

  I started a new project. Being in Noma actually made me feel really close to and interesting topic – i always being overcrazy for any sort of fermentations, but now i met face to face with KOJI and after the first sniff i realized i want more. And more. And even more. So much to […]

  Kat

  March 30, 2021

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  amazake, chamber, cocktail, experiments, fermentation, flavours, food lab, Foodporn, growingkoji, incubation, koji, koji spores, mold, oxidation, rice, sour, spores, steamed rice, steaming, sweet, test kitchen, umami