Today I read this article on making your own kefir. I've heard of kefir before, here and there, and it always sounded intriguing but perhaps just a tad bit out there, closer to tofu than yogurt. Also it always sounded very expensive, like something the marketing department at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's tricks impressionable health food nuts into buying.
However, reading detailed instructions on how to make it at home inspires me to do the same. If it's really as good as they say (Even better than yogurt at regulating digestion and improving the immune system! Contains five species of probiotic microorganisms, living happily together in a symbiotic relationship!) then we should be downing this stuff every day, no question, and if it's as simple as that, then we should turn alchemist and convert all of our milk into kefir henceforward.
I have therefore made arrangements with a local supplier of kefir to pick up a jar of kefir grains tomorrow. We shall see how the experiment turns out. In addition to all the other wonderful benefits of kefir, I'm rather chuffed to be participating in something that requires a starter - it engenders such a happy sense of community, like friendship bread and farm raisings.
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It can be somewhat unnerving to find yourself turning into your mother, can't it?
I don't know, friendship bread is always kind of scary . . .
I look forward to hearing how the kefir turns out! Making my own yogurt is something I definitely want to try someday, since we eat so much of it.
Hey now, I may shop primarily at Trader Joe's but I am no impressionable health food nut! I've been drinking kefir for years, especially after having a roommate who spent some quality time in Israel; then again, I seriously doubt I'll start making it from scratch anytime soon but will look forward to hearing your adventure doing it.
Trader Joe's is a cult.
-- SJ
hahaha
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