A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

Vicki Marie — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:34:39 GMT

I like to add a little flavored stevia to my kefir. Sweet leaf makes a liquid that you just drop in with flavors like Vanilla Cream, Chocolate Raspberry, Lemon Cream, etc. My teenage son, who is very picky, loves it. I got my grains off Dom's website mentioned here and love them. When they grew, I took some out rinsed them off and started making coconut kefir from them which works wonderful. I found in the winter it took longer to ferment so I just put the jar in the oven with the light on (oven off) overnight and they are done in the morning. My tummy loves it when it's room temperature and fresh.

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

Blue Gem — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:53:45 GMT

Edith from Mandurah, I live in Rockingham and I have some Kefir, but I don't know how to contact you.

I have tried the kefir with honey previously and it's nice, but I usually just drink it and use it as salad dressing with some herbs.

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

emu3 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:04:49 GMT

Being a keifer maker, we enjoy ours in a salad! Drain a large can of crushed pineapple; add juice and water to make 1 cup to a package of gelatin; warm and stir until dissolved on stove top; cool to room temperature. Now add the pineapple and 1 cup of fresh keifer. Stir then chill 4-5 hours for your next tasty salad. Great with a meal that needs that extra digestive help!

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

ecsmdrhgmail — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:14:37 GMT

O.K. Well in Western Australia I find it impossible to buy Kefir. Does anyone out there know where I can get it.. Thank you.... Edith from Mandurah...

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

linsy — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:01:17 GMT

Check out www.chariot.net.au/~dna/Makekefir.html

Dom sells grains and teaches all about the science and biology behind the grain, etc. I know there are places in the states that sell grains too, but normally people that have them will share them since they reproduce and multiply.

Coconut kefir, either with the milk or with the water work as a substitute. Anything with sugar will kefir, but you have to be careful, as some sugars tend to feed alcohol production instead of lactic acid production. I know people who kefir rice milk and other grain milks. I haven't tried those, but i make a lemonade kefir that's a super replacement for soda or other sugary drinks for me and my children. Add grains, 1/8 cup maple syrup, 1/8 cup of lemon juice, and fill glass quart container with filtered water. Let ferment for 24 hours then strain the grains out and repeat the process. Between a 2 year old, a 4 year old and myself, we can drink between a quart and a liter per day!

Be sure to read Dom's info (from the above listed website) about transferring grains from milk to fruited water (lemonade). It takes them a few cycles to adjust to different mediums, and once they go to fruited water, they don't like to go back to milk very readily.

Take a few days and peruse his site. There is SO much info there--even how to make kefir ice cream, cheeses, and a killer sourdough.

-lins

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

gigi — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:57:04 GMT

How about instructions on how to make the raw organic kefir????? It is missing from this recipe.

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

Maria Lt. — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:56:51 GMT

Where do you get raw organic kefir

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

LENZKESR — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:52:57 GMT

With kefir grains you can have a lifetime of kefir (check google). This is not well known since there is no money to be made and you only make one inexpensive purchase.

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

einzigal — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:27:40 GMT

Another enjoyably simple snack idea from Luci, a lot of us loyal Mercolites appreciate "simple"!

THANK YOU!

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

l_hinojosa — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:54:19 GMT

Great recipe, but I have a food sensitivity to bananas & dairy. Any ideas on options?

re: A Delightfully, Delectable Way to have Your Kefir and Eat It Too

chucksheen — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:25:23 GMT