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For this recipe, not only do you learn how to make Vegan Cultured Butter, you also learn how to make 3 different kinds of non-dairy yogurt from scratch!

I have been making vegan butter to replace dairy butter for a few years now. I’m very happy with how tasty my recipe is and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything without dairy butter. I highly recommend you to try making it if you haven’t done so already.

As I also make my own soy yogurt and cultured tofu using rejuvelac, I have decided to experiment making yogurt with other kinds of nuts and seeds too.

Without commercial probiotics used and special yogurt makers or any food additives, I’m so happy to tell you that any kind of nuts and seeds can easily be used for making yogurt.

Yes, you read it right, any kind of nuts and seeds.…

It’s so creamy, buttery, naturally sweet and full of nutrients, and it’s hard to believe that this tasty Homemade Coconut Butter from Scratch is made with one ingredient!

If you like coconut products, I’m sure you know about coconut butter and may have tried it. You also probably know that a jar of high-quality coconut butter can be expensive.

Yes, that is one of the reasons that you should make you own–it’s unbelievably easy.…

There is no fish sauce or shrimp paste in this Vegan Easy Kimchi. Simply mix a few kinds of vegetables with the sauce, and let nature do the work for you!

As the majority of kimchi is vegetables, I never bothered to look at the ingredients in the past. Not until when I thought about making my own a long time ago, then I learned that there were animal products among the hidden ingredients in all non vegan kimchi.

I was so disappointed.

To these days, I still can’t believe that I didn’t read or ask about the ingredients before eating it. Ever since then, I only make and eat my own vegan easy kimchi.

From what I often see, there are two methods to make kimchi. …

With only raw wood and a few stainless brad nails, you can make this D.I.Y Wood Tofu Mold all by yourself, from start to finish–for under 6 dollars!

I have been using a makeshift tofu mold to make my own sprouted tofu for a while, and it worked well. However, at some point, I wanted something easier to use.

Unfortunately, most tofu molds I found online were too big for the amount of the tofu I wanted to make. I also didn’t feel like the high prices were worth it. So, I looked for a way to make this on my own–from scratch just like my favorite foods.

As I already had an idea of the size I wanted, I made sure I could get the supplies I needed to make it happen.

I went to my local home-improvement store to look for the material I wanted to build it with. I couldn’t find the exact pieces I wanted, but it was close enough that I was happy. So, I bought 2 pieces of wood in 2 different sizes, and a small box of stainless brad nails.

After I purchased the material, I drew a simple design according to the real size of the wood I bought. I experimented with a few different sizes and finally was happy with the size of 3 ¼” x 4-½” (about 9 x 13 cm.), measured on the inside.

With this dimension, I get the right amount of tofu I want to make for one meal. It’s also perfect for usinga pint jar (with water) as a weight to press the tofu.

When I was satisfied with the design and scale, I used a hand saw to cut the wood according to my design and assembled everything together in about an hour.

Making this D.I.Y Wood Tofu mold, I didn’t have any trash afterward.

If you are looking for a tofu mold that you can proudly make by yourself, let me show you how.…

It’s hard to believe that with only brown rice, soybeans and water, you can turn them into healthy Cultured Tofu & Yogurt without any special equipment!

As I become more conscious of how I use resources for my cooking, I try to find ways to use less ingredients and equipment to create healthy meals.

Eating foods that contain probiotics have become more important too. This keeps my guts healthy, and yogurt was a big part of my diet for a long time.

When I was no longer comfortable with all the plastic containers from buying yogurt, I tried to make my own. However, the fact that yogurt can’t be made without a yogurt maker or maybe an instant pot wasn’t appealing to me.

I didn’t have any of those machines, and I was not interested in buying them.…

dry it in a breathable tray

No more equipment than a bamboo steamer is needed. Follow this simple recipe and instructions, and you can make Brown Rice Koji right in your kitchen!

In this post, besides learning how to make Brown Rice Koji, you will also learn how to use it to make healthy & tasty brown rice amazake.

Ever since I learned how good koji is for your health, I always wanted to add it to my dishes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do this as I didn’t want to buy bag after bag of it.

I was optimistic to try and make my own koji rice, but just couldn’t. All of the recipes and instructions I looked for showed that special equipment is important to making koji. Also, I had to precisely monitor the temperature during the period I was making it.

Sadly, those reasons were enough to scare me away from making it for a long time.

As I always wanted to eat food that is good for my gut, koji kept calling me back.

At one point I decided that buying all the suggested equipment might be the best way to go. It’s so worth it to have homemade koji rice on hand, plus Brown Rice Koji is very expensive and hard to find.

Just before I decided to order the equipment, my thoughts went back a few thousand years into the past. The first koji rice wouldn’t have been made with all this modern equipment. That’s it, I should be able to make it like people used to without having to own so much equipment.…

drying the balls in a warm area

How long does it take to make commercial soy sauce–do you know? I don’t, but I do know this Homemade Soy Sauce takes at least ONE year!

I’m deeply fascinated by the way Korean soy sauce is made. I lost myself dreaming back in time while researching it, and I wanted to be able to make it at home so badly. There was a lot of work involved, and initially I was too afraid to start.

However, in December 2017, I overcame my fear and made my first batch of Homemade Soy Sauce. Not knowing how it would turn out, I filmed every step of the process.

The result wasn’t exactly like I imagined. I wanted to have a lot of fermented bean paste that I could use as miso. There was too much fungi in the paste however, and I was afraid to use that part.

However, the taste was amazing and the process of making it was worth sharing. So, I finished the video and shared my experience via my Youtube Channel in 2019. As a result, I got a lot of reviews–both positive and of course, some negative ones too.

I have learned so much from this experience, not only about how to make soy sauce, but also a lot more about other related products as well.

I also learned to appreciate the foods I eat more, to be patient and not to rush, and best of all I learned that high quality things can’t be made fast!…

Simply ferment cashews with Penicillium Roqueforti and age it at least 4 weeks. It’s hard to believe this Vegan Blue Cheese is not made from dairy?

I stopped eating any kind of meat since 2004. It wasn’t too hard to make up my mind not to rely on other lives to live, although I still ate dairy cheese.

A few years later, as I learned more about the dairy industry, I tried to give up dairy products altogether as well.

However, giving up dairy wasn’t easy. There is dairy in almost everything, and the most difficult item to give up is cheese.

I have tried replacing my cheese cravings with commercial vegan cheeses on the market, but one I bought was so bad that I couldn’t finish it. It was highly processed with some unfamiliar additives in it–not what I wanted to put in my body.…

With a practical method & simple equipment, this Homemade Soy-Free Tempeh recipe is perfect. It’s so tasty, healthy, and best of all: no soy or plastic involved!

If you eat a plant-based diet, I’m sure you know tempeh. There are so many kinds of tempeh on the market nowadays, but most commonly its made from soy.

I have no problem eating non-GMO soy, but sometimes, I crave something different such as Homemade Soy-Free Tempeh to get different flavors.

I wanted to make my own tempeh for so long but I got so intimidated by all the equipment they suggested in order to make it at home. Also, when I looked closely into making it, my other big concern was all the plastic used.

All of the tutorials I researched suggest to use plastic bags, or to use banana leaves if I want to make it the way people in Indonesia made it in the past.

Using plastic bags for making food? Nah.…

This Homemade Oat Milk is made from oat groats. It’s mixed with homemade coconut milk, maple syrup, a pinch of salt, and it tastes so good!

When I was trying to decrease our dairy milk intake a while ago, we stumbled on oat milk while traveling in Sweden. That was the first time my family and I tried oat milk.

While we were shopping for food and plant-based milk, we saw nice earthy design milk cartons for oat milk. We bought one, and used it for breakfast and to drink. We were so impressed how delicious that milk was. It was hard to believe that it was made from oats (and of course a few other ingredients they don’t specify).

Not long after we got back to the US, I saw the same brand of oat milk in many stores in the US!…

vegan cheese (cashew camembert)

Take a bite of this Vegan Cheese and you’ll be amazed that it’s not dairy cheese. Not only does it look exactly the same, but it also tastes the same–even better!

Knowing how much the dairy product industry impacts our health and the environment, my family cut down dairy product intake by more than 80% over the past few years.

Whenever I talk to people who are trying to go plant-based, most of them say the same thing: that giving up cheese is the hardest.

It was hard for me too. I started to look into it more seriously to find something to replace the dairy cheese we ate. Unfortunately, most Vegan Cheeses on the market are highly processed and the tastes are unbelievably bad. …

This Homemade Nutritional Yeast Substitute is both healthy & tasty. It’s made with only 2 healthy ingredients you already know: miso and sprouted chickpeas.

I have been trying to make nutritional yeast at home without success for a long time. After a lot of research, I realized there is no way for me to make this at home.

Making nutritional yeast as we buy it from stores requires a special lab that’s full of commercial equipment. There is also a scientific fact that ordinary people like me don’t know: it’s a very highly processed food, and shockingly, most brands are genetically modified!

The vitamin B-12 I thought occurs naturally in commercial nutritional yeast is actually the fortified type, and added in later. …

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