Acini di Pepe with Garden Vegetables. Last night was a whatever is in the kitchen moment. Id been on the road, then spent the day helping my son set up his new apartment and had yet to restock the kitchen. But I did have a stash of assorted vegetables from the backyard garden and recent trip to the Longmont Farmers Market. An the box of acini di pepe pasta on the pantry shelf had been staring me in the face for a while. Time to put it all to use.

Making sauerkraut, or fermenting cabbage, is so simple, I dont know why I didnt start making it years ago! I made my first batch last fall, after hearing fermentation guru Sandor Katz. Speak at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. This red rock sits in the garden outside my parents antebellum Missouri house, which was once my grandmothers home. Over the years, Grandma Marr moved that rock with her from one home to another. Grandma displayed the stone w.