Green Goddess Dressing & Dip

This smooth, creamy dressing is great on salads. It comes out quite thick also works beautifully as a dip with vegetable sticks, broccoli and cauliflower florets, or crackers, or as a spread in sandwiches. The kefir, avocado and apple cider vinegar are the basis of the recipe and around that you have a lot of [...]
Making Kefir Cheese

Making cheese from kefir is easy and it contains all the beneficial probiotic micro-organisms that kefir is famous for. This recipe makes a tasty, soft cheese, similar to cream cheese but even easier to spread. I’ve also used it in recipes in place of ricotta cheese. This is the basic recipe for making a plain [...]
Rosemary, Garlic and Walnut Kefir Cheese

This is a beautiful, tangy, silky-soft cheese perfect for spreads and dips. With just a few simple ingredients, it’s very quick to make up if you have already strained the kefir through cheesecloth to make the cheese. Since it’s made from milk kefir, it has all the healthy probiotic benefits of kefir, but the cream [...]
Making Kefir Yogurt

Kefir is a traditional fermented food made from milk, full of beneficial probiotic bacteria and yeast. It’s similar to yogurt, but usually more tangy, and sometimes slightly effervescent. Kefir is not only far more beneficial than yogurt, but much easier to make. Unlike yogurt, kefir can actually colonize your gut with the beneficial micro-organisms you [...]
Banana Berry Smoothie

This great tasting smoothie is packed full of nutrition. It’s especially high in fiber, vitamin C, potassium and antioxidants. The kefir or yogurt contributes acidophilus, to keep your intestinal flora healthy. Using kombucha, instead of dairy makes this a dairy-free, vegan drink. Note: kefir is much more nutritious and beneficial than yogurt, and making kefir [...]
Peach & Strawberry Smoothie

The delicate hint of rose complements the taste of the strawberries perfectly and really brings out the fruity flavors of this drink. I can’t eat much first thing in the morning, so I’ll often have a smoothie to last me until I can eat a bit more. Tinned peaches and frozen strawberries make this a [...]


