Make Your Own Yogurt from Scratch

I never understood why good yogurt is so expensive.  Although after finding out what all is entailed with being licensed to process any dairy products, yogurt, cheese, cream etc.  Yeah, I understand better. It is absolutely cost prohibitive for the small-dairy to set up for any commercial operation.  The same rules and standards apply if…

Chaga: Preparation Instructions and Recipe for Chaga Chai

Chaga is a polypore, meaning it does not have gilles. In fact, technically it is not-quite a mushroom.  My understanding is that chaga is clustered mycelium- which is probably why it is so much more potent than the actual medicinal mushrooms.  Regardless, Chaga forms very dense hard woody clumps, or nodules on the sides of…