Oh-oh....Butter Love at first taste! New product right next to Kerry Gold ($3.19).
Cultured, Salted Butter, produced in Brittany, France ($2.99) Ingredients: Cream, Salt, Lactic Acid Cultures. Doesn't say grass-fed, but how many factory farms are in Brittany? So new, no info on-line. So does this count as a fermented food? Because if it does my calories will soar. I also bought a bag of the Organic Carrots in beautiful colors for my first fermenting attempt. |
I had never read about cultured butter before. Now I am intrigued and want to try it. Thanks for sharing your find.
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What type of jar are you going to ferment your carrots in? I ordered a Fido jar from Amazon and it should be here tomorrow. I plan on making a batch of sauerkraut. I want to buy some other size jars and experiment with other vegetables. I am wanting to ferment okra, garlic and jicama to begin with. |
Check out that Vermont company Jean linked on the Gut thread...it explains how it is made and all the retailers where you can buy Cultured Butter if a TJ is not handy.
I am starting out simple. Found wide-mouth Mason Jars at a thrift store, bought new lids and bands this morning. I like this carrot and ginger combo so much from the Farmer's Market, this is what will try: http://stupideasypaleo.com/2013/07/...ginger-carrots/ |
Janet,
I did go to the link Jean provided and found out I can buy the butter at The Fresh Market or Earth Fare. I will be at a Fresh Market this week and I will look for it. I also want to go to TJ Maxx's while I am in Aiken because they carry Fido jars and I would love some smaller ones to experiment with. I want to ferment garlic, jicama and okra. Thank you for sharing the ginger carrot recipe. That sounds really good. If anyone is on Facebook, I have been spending a lot of time on this page, Donna Schwenk's Cultured Food Life. Donna also has an internet site with lots of good information and recipes. Christmas Kraut sounds so good! I just have to get passed the dried cranberries since I eat low carb. I might just have to make that recipe a holiday treat. Fido Fermentation is also a FB page, I joined and I am enjoying. |
I have never been to Trader Joes. The nearest one is 50 miles away. What I do have in town, even within walking distance, is my local food coop, which has its roots in the 60's but has grown into a moderate size grocery store, with a nice new building and plenty of great products.
Jean |
New Coconut Milks at Trader Joe's:
Native Forest Organic Unsweetened Coconut Milk, both Classic Full fat and Light. http://www.edwardandsons.com/native_shop_coconut.itml Still carries the Coconut Cream too. Can indicates only a 140 calories and 2g carbs for 1/3 cup, $1.99. Also a new "Green Dragon Sauce" HOT, less than 1g carb http://www.traderjoes.com/digin/pos...ragon-hot-sauce |
I wish my local TJ's carried the full-fat coconut milk but all they ever have is "Lite" and they do carry a TJ-branded so-called "coconut cream" but when I looked at the ingredient list it was just regular coconut milk with thickeners added to it, so neither of those are on my TJ list. I do wish it was closer than 35 miles away though as it does carry many things I like and I'd be happy to shop there more often.
At my local shopping center they were starting to clear ground back in the spring, and someone said a Fresh Market was going in there, which I was rather excited about. But then I went on vacation and was away for well over a month, and when I got home it was still just a partially cleared mound of dirt with no sort of activity going on - so certainly no Fresh Market in the near-term future. Then again it was sometime in 2011 that I read that a Trader Joe's was going to open in Jacksonville in the fall of 2013, and I thought at the time that it seemed like I would have to wait an eternity. Now I've been shopping there on and off for 2 years (35 miles from me as I said, but less than two miles from where my Pastel Society holds its meetings, so I tend to make visits there after my meetings). So a local Fresh Market might still be in my future. :D (though I'd love another TJ's even more) |
Fresh Market is very expensive...it was the butt of a funny advertisement by a local competitor about paying for the classical piano music. Lovely experience, great bakery and candy selection (for the family) and a few specials like the Tuesday ground beef for $2.99...but I drive by the one near my house to go to 3 miles further to TJs.
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Went to TJ's yesterday and found:
Pork belly Uncured bacon ends and pieces for a ridiculously low price Rack of lamb that's ready to pop in the oven and heat (will be Sunday dinner along with a stir fry from the garden--the kale and Swiss chard are out of control) I love their almond meal for making more hearty stuff, like low carb peanut butter cookies. It's less expensive than almond flour, which works better for more delicate things. |
Beware that Fresh Market imports their beef from Uruguay.
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I don't have a Fresh Market near me, but just out of interest - "beware", why? Uruguayan beef would be all grass fed.
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Because it undercuts domestic cattle raisers. When that happens more and more go out of business and if that trend continues one day we won't have any domestically raised beef.
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I see. And you're right.
Unfortunately, undercutting is exactly what's happening, and more and more people wouldn't eat any beef from cattle reared on genetically modified corn at all, if they had a choice in the matter, or if there was even wider access to grass fed meat at a similar price point to the mass market sold domestic cuts. |
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