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KATALIN KOCSIS
Fermentation & Foraging
RECIPES


Medicinal Birch Masala Chai
One of my newest mushroom creations. Birch polypore is a medicinal mushroom. If you are interested in its medicinal properties , you have several great websites and articles for more details. My dad had prostate cancer. That's why i got obsessed with medicinal mushrooms, trying to help him with anything i could. Back that time i was harvesting the mushrooms and dehydrating them, bringing them home and teaching dad how to make a tea with them that is good for cancer. If anyone


Mushroom candy
One of the most magical thing i keep making that continues to blow people's minds is 'my fermented mushroom chocolate candy'. It takes quite some time and effort to make, but this is true for most of the most delicious foods in general. I will share my method anyways and you can judge if u want to try to make it yourself or u prefer to find me somewhere in the country and buy a couple from me. :) WHAT YOU NEED: mushrooms, i find it easier if i have fresh shrooms BUTT! i tried


FATSO' PROJECTS
About a year ago i started to experiment with animal fat and koji. It was always a 'scary topic' i guess, to all of us who are dealing with koji, as the only word we remember here is 'rancidity'. Most of the koji books connect fats to rancidity, so we fermenters are intentionally trying to avoid any minimum amount of fats to avoid off flavours during ageing. About a year ago i took a jar of fresh pork fat with me from home (Hungary) and mixed it with some of my beautiful buck


TEASER: Forage to Fork
Let me show you some bits from my 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 is the real deal. I cover the whole year with my recipes, stepping month by month and cooking off some dishes - savoury, pudding etc using the special ingredients of that special time of the year. " This is one o
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