Saps els gossos, que sempre volen el plat de l'altre? Doncs sembla que els humans fem el mateix.
Ho fem amb les medicines, i ho fem amb els aliments.
Ara mateix hi ha un munt de gent fent Kimchi i kombutxa i koji, i molt poca fent olives.

I no tinc res en contra dels fermentats foranis, però aprendre coses noves, sense conservar els coneixements propis, ho trobo absurd.

No se m'acudeix un aliment més mediterrani que les olives. I a més, com a fermentat, són meravelloses.

A part de ser probiòtiques, les olives en sí són plenes de compostos benèfics, i a més s'adoben amb herbes medicinals, que alhora tenen molts compostos benèfics, que les olives atraparan de forma molt eficient, fent-los disponibles a la nostra digestió.
Perquè hi ha compostos liposolubles (solubles en oli) i hidrosolubles (solubles en aigua), i les olives contenen oli i aigua i per tant els poden extraure tots

I a més a més, són delicioses.

#olives #ferment #ferments #fermentacion #fermentos #probiotic #medicinal #CuinaCatalana #herbesremeieres #plantesmedicinals #olivas #aceitunas #microbiota #microbioma

Ferments, Sessions three & four: Mud mephit slide, wake, fey chwinga

In session three the focus was on Keesrah. A duet session handled on Discord due to let turnout, session three was a fine example of the intent behind The Ferments campaign — always find a way to play D&D.

Session four was held at Logan Brewing in Burien, as is typical. Keesrah and Guarese attended.

What did the other characters do? We’ll use downtime to talk about the use of their homesteads as bastions, Xanathar’s downtime actions and/or improving their defenses for Militia Actions. And, due to player feedback we’re including traps in Militia Actions to embrace the case where a homestead may be solo or light on membership.

The Ferments reading;

• One sheet
• Common knowledge
• Sesion one
• Session two

Session three

Keesrah heads into the scrub mountains for food to celebrate the visit of the liquor-creating family of halflings from downway. Her mom is on the trip.

During this trip in horrific weather a mudslide forces a change in path, and eventually she is attacked by mud mephits. It’s a fierce encounter on the edge of failure. But together the two managed to hold off the mephits.

Later in the trip home they notice a fox, Rennard. Using spellcraft, Keesrah learns that fox is the companion to Taier Henkel. Tier is missing, and presumed dead.

Keesrah and her mother, Velthuria, need to cross the mudflow to return home. Using some craft, luck and Crow the Raven the two managed to safely cross the mud mephit slide. Keesrah is punched by a mud mephit swimming through the flow.

After the flow and storm subsides Keesrah and Caile (the brother) head into the hills to talk to the Henkels and then the Drudzhars. One of these conversations goes much better than the other.

As a sign of fellowship, and because of Caile, Taier’s memorial is to be held at the Trading Post — there’s also easy access to the liquors from the visiting family.

The celebration goes well, except for the fight between Caile and Keesrah.

Learned clues

• Keesrah Maltunyn learned that the Henkel halflings get along with Clan Drudzhar.
• Caile is friendly with both the Henkel halflings and Drudzhar.
• Taier Henkel washed away in the mephit mudslide.
• Keesrah rescued Taier’s fox Rennard.
• Taier’s body was encased in mud by chwingas claiming he gave them a piece of his soul.
• Chwingas released Taier when Guarase Spinebloom said he’d find them another bit of soul — maybe his.
• Ken raiders with an ambush drake made their presence known. One donated its soul.
• Guarase earned a Charm of Heroism granted by the semi–domesticated fey chwinga that now live in the Spinebloom’s rice marsh.

Session four

This was the first session featuring the Spinebloom homestead. It is a series of mostly underground dome structures in a desert environment. Many Spineblooms have some druidic magic and they use this and their traditional growing methods to have the least influence on the environment as possible.

The same river that goes past the Maltunyn’s flows to the Spineblooms. Since The Ferments are infested with extreme elemental influences the desert and scrub mountains are close than is practical in a typical world.

Keesrah and Caile travel along that river to try to find Taier’s remains. That journey includes meeting Guarase who helps them search. There is a mud casing hidden in the rice marsh the Spineblooms farm.

Unfortunately there are also chwingas, little elemental sprites whose morality is not the same as humanity. These chwingas rescued Taier, but kept him cased as a way to protect him during the mephit mudslide.

In order to get Taier free the chwingas demand another soul. Somewhat confused, Guarase agrees. Then the goliath figures out that they mean his soul.

During this exchange the non-chwingas notice two advancing elves and an ambush drake. Keesrah sends Caile and Taier home.

Guarase and Keesrah fend off the elves, while the drake and those elves destroy a third of the rice marsh including many chwingas. When one of the elves is dropped unconscious in the marsh a chwinga captures its soul.

The elves also damage a Spinebloom home.

Keesrah and Guarase learn of more threats to The Ferments, more friends that could be made and the challenges to come in a land that threatens their livelihood.

#ambushDrake #chwinga #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #Ferments #homebrew #mephit #PlayingDD #recap

Ferments, Session two: Punch chickens, Malk the taker, Lenny the lynx

The second session of The Ferments campaign, an East March style took place again at West Thundermoon Trading Post.

Again, the session started with rolling on the random encounter chart. Only one of the encounters happened, as there was a lot of great roleplay between the characters.

That encounter was with “Chickens with arms and fists” also referred to as “punch chickens.” These larger-than-a-turkey chickens have humanoid arms coming out of their wing joints and are semi intelligent.

The Ferments reading;

• One sheet
• Common knowledge
• Sesion one

Session two started with a brief recap of the last session and a reminder of the nature of the East March campaign — problems come to you.

Then Keesrah spoke to her brother, Caile, about the situation with the open door up to the game trails. That conversation leads to the discovery that the brother is dating one of the goliaths in the rival clan up in the hills. Keesrah leans on the young love bird to keep the doors and gates closed as the brother mocks Keesrah for the fight with the fire snakes.

Ellis, a guest (another PC) enters the compound seeking materials for their homestead. He’s taken over an abandoned plateau homestead nearby. Those religious zealots left the region nearly 30 years ago during the time of the born generation. With decades of wear on the home, mill and other equipment Ellis will have to work hard to reopen the spring-fed mill and granary.

Needing smithed goods, Ellis chats with Keesrah’s father, Cay, and the goblin Malk. During those conversations Keesarh and Ellis learn that Malk is not merely a refugee, but has strong goals to learn how to take the magma and steam power from The Ferments to the Queen.

This learning is specifically called out in the quick recap as a note for all players. As was the brother's love interest.One piece of advice I try to follow is to remind players of the clues their characters learn. Our memories of a game are more fallible than our characters' memories of their lives.

Learned clues

• Malk (goblin leader) is a taker. They want to take whatever they can from The Ferments that helps the Queen.
• Keesrah’s brother has a lover up with the Goliath Clan Drudzhar.
• Ellis homestead was previously abandoned by religious zealots during the Born Generation when magic returned.
• Someone is creating animal hybrids.

Those first three clues are from the conversations between the characters and the named NPCs.

The fourth clue was an interjection because I could tell the table needed some action, plus there were two random encounters rolled and we hadn’t gotten to either.

Using the open door to the game trail from session one, and the obvious wealth of the trading post as inspiration the punch chickens were the easier of the two random rolls to integrate.

Punch chickens

Three punch chickens are discovered by Ellis’ lynx, Lenny. The lynx flushes them out of one of the merchant booths. Those armed chickens are carrying some goods away, sprinting towards the open door.

What are punch chickens?

Statistically they are axe beaks (Black Flag page 371) that punch rather than poke. Their special ability of Evasion turns out to be too significant for 2.5 combatants.

Deadly encounter

This is a deadly encounter with two characters and one combatant animal companion. The action economy combined with consistent dodging means both characters are dropped unconscious. The final roll comes down to Ellis’ lynx versus a wounded punch chicken. The lynx lands the fatal blow.

Keesrah did bar the door preventing a simple escape, so even if they had completely failed there was a narrative success available via the peasants and non-heroic NPCs.

Keesrah’s mother, Velthuria, helps the group heal.

During the recovery the group used some social checks to learn that the punch chickens likely originate from a group that myths call the Children of Chorl (an evil transmuter who tried to create various hybrid creatures).

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #EastMarches #Ferments #PlayingDD #recap

Ferments, Session one: Smog buggy and fire snakes

The East marched on West Thundermoon Trading Post.

Wrapping up a typical day, Keesrah noticed a thick, acrid cloud coming from the east. At the same time a not-unusual goliath walked up the packed dirt road from the south.

The goliath, Guarase Spinebloom, reached the gates of the wooden palisade enclosure a few minutes before the smog buggy. Keesrah starts closing the doors.

The smog buggy encounter was one of three random encounters rolled by the three players taking part in today's session.

In a thick accent, the boss of the smog buggy, a goblin with driver and second passenger, demands/requests entry to escape “fire snakes.”

Keesrah messages her mother. This takes nearly a minute because it is the spell. She opens the gate and lets the rancid smoke engulfed clackety buggy into the trading post.

Mere feet behind them are fire snakes.

This was not a euphemism. They are snakes, made of fire.

Fire snakes were also rolled on the random encounter chart.

The fight is swift with another Trading Post visitor, a halfling with six tiny terrier companions, Luke with a silent and non-appearing q in his name. Luke is a cleric and joins in the defense. He was picking up farm implements from Keesrah’s father, a smith whose forge burns over an open lava seam.

Luke, Keesrah and Guarase try to defend these goblins. They have difficulty conversing with the goblins. Though the goblins know common (Telsian as we’re using cultures not languages)the two dialects known aren’t similar between the Ferments-born and the Essians (goblin born).

A unique use of Create Water by Luke reduces the fire snake effectiveness for a round, while also limiting the spread of fire in the walls.

During the fight the fire snakes kill one of the goblin minions and damage everyone, as well as a bit of the palisade. It’s a win, but with a hefty loss.

A mistake the DM, me, made was having four fire snakes. Standard fire snakes have too many hit points for three 1st level characters, even with their allies.As soon as I realized the error I dropped them to 13 or 14 HP. That meant the fight was very difficult, but not a campaign ender.

A morale roll means that the smog buggy driver will likely never leave the trading post again. Their best friend is gone, burnt. Malk, the goblin boss needs to repair their buggy, which is also crispy, and find a crew and find the resources to use as fuel. The goblins normally use tar trees, but outside of Essia those are extremely rare.

Malk and Keesrah’s father talk about the possibility of using lava to fuel the smog buggy.

After a bit of rest, and setting up a guard by Keesrah’s family the group tries to recover. They talk a bit.

Looking around the Post they notice the overflight of dozens of hunting birds. The Maltunyn family rivals up in the hills almost always bond with birds. At a heightened alert, the group of Luke, Guarase and Keesrah notice that one of the smaller doors out to the game trails is open. Keesrah’s younger brother is gone.

The overflight was the third random encounter rolled.

Key learnings (SlyFlourish would call these secrets).

• Goblins are searching The Ferments for a resource that can fuel their smog-tek.
• Fire snakes are now aggressive, rather than passive. They will chase outsiders in the area.
• Keesrah’s brother snuck out at night. That raised an alert from the adversarial clan nearby.
• Community helps community. No matter the challenge and the danger.

This was the first session of The Ferments, an East Marches Campaign set in the World of the Everflow.

It is an experiment in using random encounters, defensible places, and a West Marches style to talk about community, control of knowledge and love of pets.

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #EastMarches #Ferments #PlayingDD #recap

Tan simple i barat, i alhora tan efectiu i polivalent.

El vinagre.

Ja vaig escriure'n un article a la web fa temps . Era un article molt complet, però em vaig deixar una cosa. Una d'important.

Quan hi ha algú malalt a casa (com ara que corre tant de covid), l'aire s'hi omple de toxines i, en el cas de moltes malalties infeccioses, també de patògens. Com més càrrega de patògens i toxines diverses, més fàcil és que les nostres estratègies preservadores es vegin superades, i emmalaltim.
Aquest aire malsà, és el què antigament s'anomenava miasma.

Per tant, sempre que hi hagi algú malalt en una casa o altre espai tancat, una de les coses més importants a fer serà mantenir la salut de l'aire que s'hi respira. Netejar-lo de miasmes.
Per aconseguir-ho, l'estratègia núm.1 clarament és ventilar.
Però ni tan sols això és 100% efectiu i, a més, depenent de l'època de l'any, ventilar molt voldrà dir refredar massa la casa.
Per sort, tenim altres recursos. La Natura proveeix.
Podem difondre olis essencials, però més barat i sostenible que això, i igual d'efectiu, serà cremar plantes aromàtiques (encens) i difondre vinagre. Si enlloc de vinagre fem anar un acetat de (vinagre macerat amb), per exemple, farigola, ginebró o eucaliptus, molt millor. Per difondre'l, el pots posar a bullir (compte amb ensumar-ho directament - l'àcid acètic pot provocar un broncospasme), o posar-lo en un recipient sobre una font de calor, o en un cremador d'essències que no sigui de ferro (el vinagre corrou els metalls oxidables). A més de purificar l'aire de miasmes i mantenir la salut de la llar, aquest remei mediterrani mil·lenari, és un gran desodoritzant.

Del vinagre, en parlarem molt al
👉curs de remeieria tradicional mediterrània👌,
perquè és un dels ingredients necessaris per elaborar molts remeis, com ara els oximels i els acetats.
https://jardidelesbruixes.cat/de-salut-i-vinagre/

#medicinatradicional #medicinatradicionalmediterrania
#vinagre
#ferments
#airborne
#salutnatural
#alimentaciosaludable

Day 3 with The #Ferments.

They're very active which is a good sign. The brine which has been a wonderful purple colour is now starting to go cloudy, this is another good sign as the good lacto bacteria are taking hold.

I've ordered some pH strips to test the acidity to make sure it's going down. I suspect it's fine, as there's so much CO2 being produced, the brine is overflowing the jars.

One thing we did not consider is the ferment proximity to our other fruits and vegetables... it must be torture! Just look at the photo... ;) ;)

Some nettle fermented plant juice in the making next to some seed sprouts in the growing. #GrowYourOwn #Ferments #Gardening

Today's #fermentationstation

top shelf: ginger carrots - morracan lemon & limes - sourdough starter

bottom shelf: ginger beer - dill cucumbers - rejuvelac - mint apples - kefir

(sourdough bread not shown)

#fermentation #lactofermentation #ferments #kefir #carrots #lemons #limes #cucumbers #apples #sourdough #ginger #rejuvelac

@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @actuallyaudhd

What's your #morningroutine?

Regardless of when I wake up, I stay in bed 'til 7am. I then strain my #kefir. Feed my #sourdoughstarter. Check my other #ferments. Feed the #dog and take him out to pee. Eat oatmeal with chia and flax seeds, banana and fermented apples. Drink a cup of kefir. Do my #duolingo. Hop on the #bike. Shower, get dressed and then out the door to run errands.

Outside of that #routine my day is a #shitshow

Yo, how do you make sure not to get #botulism when making flavored oils? I have some #fir needles that I straight up stole from a privately owned forest and I want to put them in some oil and then spray it all over my food like a maniac. But I don't want to be killed by some little stupid #bacteria. All the boring websites say either get ph-value of below 4,6 or get some salt, which makes sense for #ferments or get 121°c for 3 min if #canning. But what about in oil? It is #anaerobic, so risky

Discover how to make refreshing homemade ginger beer ale with our easy-to-follow recipe.

#ginger #gingerbeer #gingerale #ferments

https://www.recipesandroots.ca/recipes/ginger-beer-ale

Learn how to make vibrant and flavourful #sauerkraut with cabbage, carrots, ginger, turmeric, and beets.

#ferments

https://www.recipesandroots.ca/recipes/sauerkraut-with-cabbage-carrots-ginger-turmeric-and-beets

Learn how to make delicious homemade sauerkraut with this easy step-by-step guide.
#sauerkraut #ferments #cabbage #cultures
https://www.recipesandroots.ca/recipes/sauerkraut

What...‽ You can even ferment legumes‽‽ 🤯 #fermentation #fermentedfoods #ferments

Kefir, ginger bug, sourdough starter, sauerkraut, lacto-fermented apples. #ferments #fermentstodon #lactofermentation

My #kefirgrains are happy and healthy AF and now I have too much to know what to do with them all. #kefir #ferments #fermentationproblems #fermentation

Apple was helping his mother bake bread for the first time.

He watched as she mixed flour, sugar, water, yeast. She kneaded the dough, and then let him try.

‘That’s it. Press it down with one hand and then the other. The you can mush it together.’

A few minutes later she said that was enough. It was time to let the bread prove.

‘How does the dough rise?’ Apple asked.

‘Well, the yeast #ferments from the sugar.’

Apple looked puzzled.

‘The yeast eats the sugar and lets out gas. The gas makes the dough rise.’

‘Bread rises from yeast farts?!’ Apple was thrilled.

#MastoPrompt #microfiction #writing #ferment

No sé si hay por aquí a estas horas alguien a quien pueda interesarle, pero finalmente he escrito sobre el #kéfir en mi blog. ¡Espero que os aclare alguna duda!

https://enriqueam.xyz/blog/002-kefir-que-y-por-que.html

#kefir #fermentación #fermentado #fermented #FermentedFood #ComidaFermentada #FermentedDrink #BebidaFermentada #ferment #ferments #fermento #fermentos

#Sunchoke #fermentation #recipe continues apace. Inspired by #kimchi— it’s sunchoke leaves, carrots, scallions, and some seaweed to keep it vegan but still a little fishy.

The paste is chili, garlic, ginger, and some stinky bob for a little cilantroyness. It released a lot more liquid than I expected! But the sunchoke leaves definitely shrunk down. Now it’s in the crock; I’ll check in on it in a week!

#ferment #food #ferments