Someone wrote in [personal profile] claire_58 2024-07-09 06:33 pm (UTC)

Agreed with most everything you've written here, Claire. One thought regarding fish and seafood, there's so much pollution now in the oceans that trying to find something that's not full of mercury, or PFAS, or plastic, is rather a challenge. I spent an hour or 2 recently looking into this and found a blog somewhere where the writer lamented over this, and went on to say that as far as she'd been able to find, herring was the least poisoned of the salt water fish, and that fresh water fish was generally so poisoned that she avoided it.

Regarding fermented foods, I've recently tried making pickled onions as a simple salt preserve; onions, 3% salt, whatever else you want to throw in (I tried fresh turmeric root and pepper corns), and it is most splendid. As with everything else, a jar of home-made pickled onions is about a 1000 times nicer than a jar of shop-bought pickled onions, and very simple indeed to make.

Post a comment in response:

If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting