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Link to Ashwagandha Monograph episode.

Herbalist & Alchemist (spiced bitters)

Sending you warm baking and gathering together thoughts and thank you for listening!!

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Herbal Bake Club: Panna Cotta & Cookies with Herbal Guests Ashwagandha and Cardamom

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:38:00 +0000

This is a special episode of An Herbal Diary. I am organizing a virtual herbal bake club and this is the first companion podcast episode. Please consider joining me! I have also started a newsletter on Substack. Please subscribe for all the details, recipes and zoom link for the meeting.

If you are not yet subscribed to my new Substack, please head to notesfrommykitchenapothecary.substack.com to join. I would love to have you join!

If you are subscribed to my Substack, you are automatically invited to Herbal Bake Club meetings. Check your inbox for the recipes and Zoom link.

Our first Herbal Bake Club Meeting: Saturday, October 25th at 2 pm EST.

We will be making two herb infused desserts, banana panna cotta and lemon butter cookies. We have two special herbal guests - ashwagandha and cardamom. We will meet on Zoom.

I've introduced ashwagandha in the last few episodes.

Sources for Herbal Ingredients:

Cardamom Pods

Ashwagandha Tea

Ashwagandha Root

I hope that our herbal bake club will give us a chance to smile a bit together, immerse ourselves in kitchen herbalism and bake lovely creations.

Sending you warm baking and gathering together thoughts and thank you for listening!!

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Original music by Dylan Rice

Please send me your comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is dina@theherbalbakeshoppe.com. I look forward to hearing from you!

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Ashwagandha Monograph

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:52:00 +0000

This episode highlights Ashwagandha, a medicinal herb that originates from the Indian Ayurvedic tradition. I'm spending time with this nourishing plant today with an herbal monograph episode. An herbal monograph is also called materia medica. It is a collection of knowledge about one plant that helps to describe the plant as a material of medicine. In the last episode of an herbal diary, I spoke about a general category of plants called adaptogens. If you've listened to that last episode, you will remember we talked about how there are only a few herbs that through research can be clearly defined as adaptogens. Ashwagandha is one of these herbs.

Ashwagandha's botanical name: Withania Somnifera

Plant Family: Solanaceae

Link to Adaptogen Episode

I'm excited to tell you about a new Herbal Diary spinoff. It's a virtual baking club. We will highlight at least one herb each time we meet, you can bake along with me or just watch. I will send recipes ahead of time. More details to come very soon! If you have ideas or want to join, please email me dina@theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Sending you warm autumn thoughts and thank you for joining me!

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Stress Relief from Adaptogens and How Herbs Can Do This

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:59:00 +0000

Plants labeled as adaptogens take the word literally. These herbs lend us a way to adapt, a way to adjust to what life throws at us. You can't go wrong taking adaptogens, but you can go wrong in how you take them. There are two paths to careful selection. Work with an herbalist who can guide you to adaptogens that fit you best or arm yourself with deep study. I hope this episode will help with the deep study path. I am beginning a series on adaptogens. In this first episode, I focus on the basic foundational principle that adaptogen is considered an herbal action. We talk about the body's stress response and the role adaptogens play in stress relief. We also talk about how social media may be a way of community herbalism.

Resources to find Herbalists:

The American Herbalist Guild

Herbmentor

HerbRally

Book Mentions:

Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief by David Winston, RH(AHG)

The Alchemy of Herbs : Transform Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies that Heal by Rosalee de la Foret

Link to Ashwagandha Chai Episode

Sending you warm summer thoughts and thank you for joining me!

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Original music by Dylan Rice

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Making Gumbo with Sassafras

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:22:00 +0000

Sassafras is a richly nuanced medicinal tree that also has a distinctive place in the culinary world. Sassafras root bark is responsible for the flavor of root beer, but it is no longer used due to a Food and Drug Administration ban. The reasons for this fortunately do not transfer to sassafras leaves which have a long history of being essential to classical Southern gumbo. I think sassafras falls into the category of underutilized herbs. Despite questions about safety and bad publicity, sassafras is distinctive and very much worth getting to know.

Links to Gumbo Mentions:

Toni Tipton Martin

Jubilee Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook by Toni Tipton Martin

Lena Richard

New Orlean"s Cookbook by Lena Richard

My favorite sources for gumbo file:

Red Stick Spice Co.

Mountain Rose Herbs: dried sassafras leaves

Join me in this episode for more on sassafras…the unique features of its leaves, its medicinal qualities and some safety concerns. Sending you warm winter wishes and thank you for joining me!

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Getting to Know Sumac, An Underutilized Herb

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 19:45:00 +0000

What makes a fruit or vegetable easy to find in grocery stores? While there are many answers to this question, a lot of edible medicinal herbs are not, herbs like nettles, burdock root and elderberries. To this list, I am adding sumac berries. Sumac may not give us delicious fruit, but there is good reason to get to know it better and I am doing this in my kitchen. And in case you are wondering, this is a totally different plant than toxic poison sumac.

My favorite sources for dried sumac:

Burlap & Barrel

Join me in this episode for more on sumac…its uses as a culinary spice and as an underutilized medicinal herb and also the difference between sumac and poison sumac.

Sending you warm summer thoughts and thank you for joining me!

---Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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The Medicine of Tree Bark and Flowering Spring Trees

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:49:00 +0000

What makes a tree medicinal? The answer to this question depends on the medicine we are searching for. Especially in spring, trees can be medicine for our eyes. After the grayness of winter, glorious flowering trees like dogwood and magnolia are sweet visions. Aside from landscaping decoration, both dogwood and magnolia along with many other trees,have long been used for strong medicines derived from their bark.Tree bark has phytochemicals that make it bitter, astringent, and highly antimicrobial. Bark is a tree's protective layer, helping it to survive through winter cold and other dangers like bacteria, fungi and troublesome insects. The same phytochemicals in tree bark offer much medicine to humans as well.

Join me in this episode for more on tree bark and the medicine of dogwood and magnolia trees. Sending you lovely spring thoughts and thank you for joining me!

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Warming Energetics and Evergreen Trees

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:39:00 +0000

Plant energetics is a way to understand how a plant can affect the body through our senses and how it feels in the body. Energetics is subtle, but so helpful when choosing herbs. The difference between warming and cooling plant energetics is like feeling the warmth of the sun versus a cool plunge into the ocean. In this episode, we delve deep into warming energetics and match these with a group of trees that provide great examples: evergreens. These trees have great potential for kitchen uses and herbal remedies. We talk all about juniper, fir, hemlock and spruce trees.

Some examples of herbs with warming energetic qualities:

ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cayenne pepper, turmeric, garlic, rosemary, cumin, black pepper.

Sending you the warmest thoughts and thank you for joining me!

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Original music by Dylan Rice

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Kitchen Medicine: Pine Needle Salve

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:11:00 +0000

Pine trees are trees that are very familiar especially because of their long thin needles and pine cones. But they seem overlooked for their culinary and herbal remedy benefits. In this episode, I am back in my kitchen with elegant pine needles brewing a tea blended with warming spices and preparing a skin healing salve. I'll talk you through all the steps.

Thank you for joining me!

Pine Needle Chai:

1 cinnamon stick

1 teaspoon dried ginger

2 teaspoons dried orange peel or zest of 1 orange

1 allspice berry

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

2 tablespoons chopped fresh pine needles or 2 teaspoons dried

1½ cups (12 ounces) water

Combine all spices (not pine needles) and water in a small saucepan covered with a lid.. Bring water to a gentle boil on medium heat. Turn down to the lowest setting, simmer for 20-25 minutes. Remove from heat, add pine needles, continue to steep covered with lid for at least 30 minutes. Strain into a tea mug, add milk and honey to taste. Reheat as desired.

Pine Needle Infused Oil:

2 tablespoons dried, powdered pine needles

8 ounces olive oil

Heat 2 inches of water in the bottom of a double boiler to simmer. Combine dried pine needles and olive oil in the top of the double boiler and place on the bottom portion of simmering water. Place a paper towel on top of the pot and then cover with a lid. Heat oil and pine needles just to warm for 30 minutes, do not allow to simmer. Remove from heat and infuse for 30-60 minutes. Repeat the warming and infusing process three times. Strain through a double layer of cheesecloth and squeeze out as much oil as possible.

Pine Needle Salve:

1 ounce (28 grams or ⅛ cup) beeswax pastilles

4 ounces (120ml) pine needle infused oil

20-30 drops pine essential oil

Stainless steel tins with lids or other heat proof containers.

Heat 2 inches of water in the bottom of a double boiler to simmer. If using beeswax in the form a a block, grate or pound with a hammer to break into small pieces. Add beeswax pastilles or small pieces from a block into the top of the double boiler with hot water in the bottom portion. Continue to heat on lowest setting until beeswax is melted. Add infused pine needle oil, this will cause beeswax to slightly solidify again, stir with oil until melted again. Remove from heat, add essential oil. Ladle mixture into the tins and leave at room temperature until salve has hardened. Cover with lids and label.

Source for Dried Pine Needles and Beeswax:

Beeswax pastilles: Mountain Rose Herbs

Beeswax block: Mountain Rose Herbs

Pine needles: Foraged

---Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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A Tea Decoction that Tastes like Juice

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:15:00 +0000

Herbal teas are a lovely way to be creative and experience herbs on a daily basis. Brewing herbal teas can take on different forms and tastes, including juice-like creations when dried berries are used as the main ingredients. These berry teas are a wonderful way to gain nutrient benefits from herbs. In this episode I am sharing my current favorite method for brewing herbal tea that feels more like a juice. Thank you for joining me.

Tea "Juice" Decoction

¼ cup dried elderberries

¼ cup dried hawthorn berries

¼ cup dried sea buckthorn berries

⅛ cup dried goji berries

⅛ cup dried rose hips

1 tablespoon hibiscus

1 tablespoon dried ginger

1 cinnamon stick

2 pieces turkey tail mushrooms

6 peppercorns

8-9 cups water

Combine herbs and water in 4 quart stock pot. Cover and bring to gentle boil on medium heat. Turn to lowest setting, simmer for 40 minutes. Remove from heat, continue to steep covered until cool. Strain into Mason jars and refrigerate.

Source for Dried Herbs and Berries:

Oshala Farm

Northwest Wild Foods

Favorite Herbal Podcasts:

HerbRally

Herbmentor Radio

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Original music by Dylan Rice

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53. Little Herb Saver: Part 2 Lemon Balm Monograph

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:47:00 +0000

The Little Herb Saver:

Lemon balm is like a blanket of peace, calming a nervous stomach, reducing anxiety, elevating a gloomy feeling, and providing relief for sleepless nights. That's a lot, but that's also not all.

Lemon balm is easy to grow, lovely to eat or drink as tea, powerful in its own right but not in a way that lends caution to using it. To get more lemon balm into our lives, can only be a good thing. And this is why I deem it a little herbal saver.

Thank you for joining me for this part 2 lemon balm monograph. (Episode 52 is part 1)

Lemon Balm Vinaigrette:

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 teaspoon red wine vinegar

1 teaspoon dijon mustard

1 teaspoon chopped lemon balm

Salt and pepper to taste

Combine olive oil, lemon juice, red wine vinegar and dijon mustard. Whisk together until blended well. Stir in chopped lemon balm and salt and pepper.

Store in the refrigerator. Serve with fennel and radish salads.

Photo of Lemon Balm from Henriette's Herbal Homepage

Sources for Lemon Balm Starter Plants:

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52. Lemon Balm Monograph Part 1

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:26:00 +0000

Lemon balm is soothing, calming and uplifting, whether fresh or dried its a pleasure to have and use. Lemon balm is such a gem that it deserves a a two part herbal monograph. Here in part 1, Dina focuses on lemon balm's origin and the benefits it can offer for us now. Also offering favorite sources for dried lemon balm and some recipes for making teas and tinctures. Thank you for joining me.

Recipes in Episode:

Lemon Balm Tea: 1-2 tsp dried lemon balm with 8 ounces hot water, steep 15-20 minutes.

Lemon Balm Tincture: 50g lemon balm + 250ml Vodka

Lemon Balm Cordial:

1 cup chopped apples (Granny Smith or other tart variety)

¼ cup dried lemon balm

3 tablespoons lemon peel, cut into strips

1 tablespoon raisins

1 cinnamon stick

3 cloves

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups of Brandy

1/2 cup maple syrup

Sources for Dried Lemon Balm

HealHaus Yoga Studio & Wellness Center

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51. Lemon Balm Scones are Medicine for the Baker

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:14:01 +0000

Baking and herbs both calm my heart and mind. In today's episode, I am back in my kitchen baking scones with lemon balm infused heavy cream blended into the batter. Lemon balm is a delight to grow and the fresh leaves offer a beautiful perfumey aroma that can uplift a heavy heart and offer a peaceful moment. In the kitchen, it's medicine for the baker.

Lemon Balm Scones

(if lemon balm balm is not something you have, give these a try using basil or thyme in its place)

For lemon balm infused cream:

approx ¾ cup (12g) fresh lemon balm leaves or ¼ cup dried lemon balm

1 cup plus ⅛ cup heavy cream

In a medium saucepan, bring cream to scald over medium high heat, don't boil, just heat until small bubbles form at edges of pan and cream begins to steam. Add chopped lemon balm leaves, stir to submerge. Remove from heat, cover with lid and steep for 25 minutes. Pour cream and lemon balm leaves into a blender and pulse to blend. Strain, reserving cream and measure 1 cup or 250g. Set aside for batter. Discard lemon balm leaves.

Ingredients:

4 cups (500g) bread flour

2 tbsp (25g) baking powder

6 tbsp (80g) unsalted butter, cut to cubes, chilled

2 large eggs

⅓ cup (80g) granulated sugar

2 tsp lemon zest

1 cup (250g) lemon balm infused heavy cream

Egg wash: 1 large egg beat with a pinch of salt

Instructions:

Sift together flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl.

Using a pastry blender or hands, blend in chilled butter until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.

In a separate medium sized bowl, mix wet ingredients with sugar.

Whisk eggs, add sugar and lemon zest, whisk.

Add lemon balm infused heavy cream and whisk to blend

Pour wet ingredients into flour and butter mixture and gently stir together until begins to form a ball of dough. L

Let rest for 5 minutes.

Turn out onto a floured surface, knead gently until smooth. Press to flatten with a floured rolling pin and roll to a 1 inch high disc.

Cut scones with a 2 inch round biscuit or cookie cutter, press down and lift, do not twist.

Place on parchment lined baking sheet.

Refrigerate scones for at least 30 minutes before baking.

Preheat oven to 425F.

Brush tops and sides of scones liberally with egg wash. Sprinkle with a bit of granulated sugar.

Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Cool on wire racks. Enjoy!

Mentions:

HerbRally Podcast

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Original music by Dylan Rice

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050 Kitchen Medicine Broth Series:Ginger Stock

Tue, 17 May 2022 19:03:09 +0000

Rounding out my broth episodes with ginger provides the perfect example of how lovely tasting herbal tea can second as herbal broth which then infuses the food we eat with an extra layer of nourishment. Ginger is a great example, because it is such a foundational culinary herb with multitudes of methods and recipes incorporating ginger both fresh and dried.. As for soup, ginger itself may be added as an ingredient, it goes especially well with chicken soup or creamy carrot soup or a garlic lemongrass broth with noodles, But it can also be layered in as the actual broth or stock base to make a sublime and aromatic soup or stew creation. Listen in while I make a pungent ginger stock and then use it in mushroom soup. I hope you will simmer along with me.

*Ginger Broth* makes 3-4 cups

4 cups (1 quart) water

4 inch piece fresh ginger root, chopped

1 teaspoon peppercorns

1 teaspoon coriander seeds

1 bay leaf

3 kafir lime leaf

Salt to taste (optional, perhaps do not add if going to drink as tea)

No need to peel the ginger because we will be staining it out.

Combine water, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, fennel seeds lemon juice and lemon zest in medium saucepan. Bring to boil over high heat, reduce to low and simmer, covered for 30-45 minutes. Strain.

To make mushroom soup - saute onions, leeks and garlic, combine 4 cups ginger stock with 3-4 cups water and simmer any mushrooms with potatoes, carrots and peas or any other vegetables you like. Season with salt and pepper.

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Kitchen Medicine Broth Series: Chicken Stock

Fri, 14 May 2021 21:50:41 +0000

Could chicken soup be medicinal because of the plant and herbal ingredients?. Chicken adds nourishment but I propose the healing qualities are due to onions, thyme, bay leaves and pepper.

Chicken Stock (from my kitchen)

½ gallon water (2 quarts)

3 pounds chicken bones (joints - wings, backs)

2 cups chopped onion

1 cup chopped carrot

1 cup chopped celery

1 Tablespoon thyme

½ Tablespoon pepper

2 bay leaves

Run bones under cold water for 5 minutes, drain. Add bones to stock pot with water, bring to gentle simmer. Skim off impurities and fat that rises to the surface. Add mirepoix and herbs. Gently simmer uncovered, replenishing water as needed for 3-4 hours. Strain and cool quickly. Store in refrigerator or freezer.

Mentions:

MFK Fisher How to Cook Like a Wolf

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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters and one son all now in college. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

48 Kitchen Medicine Broth Series II featuring Kvass

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:34:20 +0000

Another form of kitchen alchemy and extraction: Kvass. This fermented beverage is refreshing and tangy. Using Kvass as broth may be unconventional but it is also uncommonly good, especially beet kvass used in borscht, either cold or hot. Give it a try.

Kvass Recipe

12 slices dark rye bread

2-3 quarts hot water

¼ cup sugar or honey

1 ¼ teaspoon dry active yeast

1 Tablespoon lemon juice

12 raisins

For Beet Kvass

2-4 beets, peeled and cubed

2-3 quarts water

Mentions:

Beyond the North Wind by Darra Goldstein

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Borodinsky Rye Bread

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47 Kitchen Medicine Broth Series: Garlic Stock

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:10:25 +0000

Join me in my kitchen apothecary as I make the easiest stock ever. Just garlic and water simmered together results in a versatile, flavorful and densely nourishing stock. It's perfect for making vegetable soup, rice, marinara sauce or beans.

Garlic Stock

makes 2 quarts

2 whole heads garlic

1 Tablespoon olive oil

2 quarts water

Gently wash garlic head under running water, pat dry with a paper towel.

Slice garlic head in half horizontally.

In a large stockpot, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add halved garlic cut side down, cooked stirring occasionally about 3 minutes until garlic begins to smell aromatic. Take care not to burn garlic.

Add water, bring to boil, then lower heat to just maintain a simmer. Continue to simmer for 1 hour. Strain, discard garlic and peels. May season to taste.

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Pop-Up Cocoa Tea Salon

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:30:49 +0000

Chocolate begins as the seeds of Theobroma cacao, a tropical tree. After much processing, we are gifted cocoa powder which is in itself an herbal remedy, a delicious one at that. Come join me in this pop-up tea salon episode where we brew a warm comfort cup of cocoa.

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Mentions:

Jim McDonald: Herbcraft.org

Jim's Virtual Classes

Cocoa Tea Recipe

12 ounces herbal tea (chamomile, mint or any favorite)

1 teaspoon 100% dark cocoa powder

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

¼ cup coconut milk

Simmer together 10 minutes.

Stir in 1 tablespoon honey.

Inulin-Rich Cocoa

3 cups water

1 teaspoon burdock root powder

1 teaspoon dandelion root powder

2 teaspoons 100% dark cocoa powder

Simmer together 20 minutes

Stir in 2 tablespoons honey.

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Materia Medica: Plantain

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:15:22 +0000

The more I work with weedy plants from my yard and in my kitchen, the greater my confidence in them grows. Plantain is the perfect bridge for embracing the idea that plants growing around us are remedies readily available. Plantain is a rockstar for healing the skin and mucous membranes where it can soothe pain, cleanse and promote wound healing.

What plantain heals externally it can also do internally.

Photo of Plantain major

Photo of Plantain lanceolata

For more on plantain poultices listen to episode 44 of An Herbal Diary

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Herbal Pantry: Plantain and Poultices

Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:13:15 +0000

This is not the tropical fruit plantain, so yummy cooked in butter. This plantain is the leafy green weed growing in any grassy yard, field or meadow. This plantain tops the list for herbal first aid remedies, especially for rashes and insect bites. In this episode, we explore topical uses including the amazing plantain poultice.

Plantain Poultice Recipe:

Big handful fresh plantain leaves OR ½ cup dried plantain leaf

Hot water, just to moisten

1 Tablespoon calendula oil

2 drops lavender essential oil

Blend either in mortar and pestle or blender

Thicken as needed to form paste using

1 teaspoon to 1 Tablespoon flour, ground flaxseed or bentonite clay powder

Image of Plantain (Plantago major)

Image of Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)

Sources for Dried Plantain

Aunty Peaches Apothecary

Rosemary's Garden

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Herbal Pantry: Kitchen Garden Visit

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 16:48:01 +0000

Herbs offer all kinds of remedy. Tending a kitchen garden may provide culinary delights and stock for an herbal medicine cabinet, but with additional benefit of peace, solace and hope. Join me in this episode to tour through my 2020 kitchen garden for some delicious and medicinal discoveries.

Mentions:

Donna J. Haraway: Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Aaron Bertelson: Grow Fruit and Vegetables in Pots

American Herbalist Guild COVID19 Resource page

Rootwork Herbals and the People's Medicine Project Reclamation

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Herbal Pantry: Demulcents and Expectorants

Tue, 05 May 2020 19:03:22 +0000

Medicine from plants can't replace pharmaceuticals, but botanical remedies can contribute to prevention and recovery from illness. In this episode, I explore building the kitchen herbal pantry to include cough remedies.

Categories and Examples of Herbs with therapeutic use for coughing

Demulcents are herbs that soothe and protect mucous membranes from irritation and inflammation and thin mucus

Examples are flax seed, chia seed, oats, okra, marshmallow, licorice, fenugreek, fennel, slippery elm, mullein, violet, butterfly weed

Expectorants are herbs that help move excessive mucus out of the respiratory system

Examples include wild cherry bark, plantain, hyssop, fenugreek, thyme, fennel, licorice, ginger, marshmallow, anise, onion, garlic, eucalyptus, pine, elecampane, lobelia, horehound

Decongestants reduce and/or eliminate the formation of mucus or phlegm

Examples are anise, black pepper, cayenne, ginger, fenugreek, mullein, marshmallow, licorice, horehound, sumac, wild cherry, elecampane, lobelia

Astringents dry up mucus, be careful with astringents, use only if copious mucus

Examples include peppermint, spearmint, bayberry, sumach, raspberry leaf, wild cherry, cleavers, lobelia

Antispasmodics relax muscles, decrease constriction and tightness, help coughing spasms

Examples are Fenugreek, fennel, lavender, peppermint, lemon balm, mullein, Angelica, bayberry, red clover, elecampane and lobelia

Mentions:

Respiratory System and Respiratory Immunity: Course offered by the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism

Recipe for Onion Poultice:

1-2 onions, steamed

½ cup flour or cornmeal

2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar (or any vinegar except distilled white vinegar)

Mix together to form paste, spread onto a cheesecloth, wrap in plastic. Place on chest and cover with a towel to keep warm. Keep on chest for at least 30 minutes.

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Pop-Up Tea Salon: Ashwaganda Chai

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:28:42 +0000

Sharing three inspirations of courage from my kitchen apothecary. A calming chai, ideas for a little remedy kit that you probably have already at home and thoughts for future herbal kitchen planning.

Ashwaganda Chai Herb/Spice Blend

¼ cup ashwaganda root powder

2 teaspoons cinnamon powder

¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder

¼ teaspoon clove powder

⅛ teaspoon fine sea salt

⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper

To Prepare Chai

1 cup milk - cow, soy, coconut, nut, oat

¼ cup water

2 teaspoons herb/spice blend

¼ teaspoon vanilla extract

½ teaspoon maple syrup or honey

Blend and warm milk and water, add herb/spice powder, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

Remove lid, add vanilla and maple syrup, simmer for 5 additional minutes

Mentions:

Ashwaganda Root powder

Herbalist & Alchemist Immune Support Tincture

Herbalist & Alchemist Stress Support Tinctures

Culinary Infused Oil Safety

Plantrama Podcast - make your own pots

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Kitchen Medicine: Rosemary Chocolate Chip Biscotti

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:49:50 +0000

Finally a kitchen medicine baking episode! This one starring herbal infused culinary oils. Not to be confused with essential oils, herb infused oils are easy to prepare at home and versatile. Always use dried herbs for infusing into an oil like olive oil. The creative options are endless. Perhaps begin by baking this biscotti with me!

Mentions:

Rosemary Gladstar

Patience Gray's Honey from a Weed

To Make Herbal Infused Culinary Oil:

Use sterilized Mason Jars

Fill a jar approximately 1/3rd full with dried herbs

Pour in olive oil to cover herbs by one inch

Weigh and measure dried herbs and oil using 1:5 ratio

Cover with lid; label

Infuse in cool, dark cabinet for 10-14 days

Recipe for Rosemary Chocolate Chip Biscotti

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Strain and store refrigerated.

Herbal Pantry: Tinctures and Extractions

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 03:05:35 +0000

Herbal tinctures are welcome and sustainable additions to your kitchen medicine cabinet - whether homemade or purchased. And they are so easy to prepare. Join me to delve into the basics of herbal extractions.

Herbal Tincture Weight to Volume Ratios

Fresh Herbs 1:2 (1 part herb to 2 parts menstruum)

Dried Herbs 1:4 or 1:5 (1 part herb to 4 or 5 parts menstruum)

Supplies:

Organic High Proof Neutral Alcohol Spirits

Tincture Storage Bottles

Mentions:

Michael Moore's Herbal Tinctures in Clinical Practice

Astragalus root and powder, Mountain Rose Herbs

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Kitchen Medicine: Astragalus Chocolate Nut Truffles

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 22:16:36 +0000

Astragalus is one of the premier immune system nourishing and strengthening herbal medicines. The best way to use an immune system tonifying herb like astragalus is to begin taking it when you are not sick, beginning about six weeks prior to the height of cold and flu season. It's ideal for incorporating into cooking on a daily basis. In this episode, I share a recipe for creamy chocolate nut truffles with a big dose of astragalus powder as an ingredient.

Ingredients for Creamy Chocolate Nut Astragalus Truffles

½ cup figs, chopped, 1 cup almonds, ½ cup cashews, 3 TBS cocoa powder (additional cocoa powder for coating), 3TBS honey, 2TBS astragalus powder, 1tsp vanilla extract, 1tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp ginger, pinch of salt

Preparation Instructions:

Soak figs in hot water for 30 minutes, then drain. Add both nuts to the food processor, process until forms a nut butter paste, about 2-3 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and process again until blended to a smooth consistency. Chill for 1-2 hours, then roll 1tsp batter into truffle balls, then coat with additional cocoa powder, coconut or chopped nuts.

Mentions:

Aphrodite Aroma Spray from Mountain Rose Herbs

Herbalist & Alchemist Astragalus Tincture

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Materia Medica: Red Clover

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:28:40 +0000

Lovely red clover may be a weedy and grow wild, but it is not to be overlooked as a medicinal herb. This full monograph delves into all of its nuances from garden friend to delicious tea to profound remedy.

Mentions:

Mypronouns.org

David Winston's Alterative Formula from Herbalist & Alchemist

Celebrated Herbalists:

David Winston

Michael Moore

David Hoffmann

Matthew Wood

Red Clover Fritter Batter Recipe:

- 1 Cup Flour

- 1 Tsp baking powder

- 2 Tbsp vanilla extract

- 1 Egg

- ¼ Cup melted butter

- ¾ Cup milk

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Herbal Pantry: Controversies, Phytoestrogens and Red Clover

Sun, 25 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000

We are forever learning the role of plant compounds in our bodies, especially those with complexity like isoflavones and phytoestrogens. Red clover and traditional whole soy foods are sources of these phytochemicals. In this episode, my goal is to reframe some of the controversies.

Sources for Red Clover Dried or Tincture:

Aviva Romm MD: Botanical Medicine for Women's Health

Mentions:

Ellen Evert Hopman

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Pop-Up Tea Salon: Dandelion Root Vanilla Latte

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000

I can not yet serve you a latte through your podcast app even though I wish that I could. Maybe someday that will happen. For now, here is a pop-up recipe offering, to make dandelion root vanilla latte homemade. I hope you enjoy!

Dandelion Root Latte with Vanilla Syrup

8 ounces roasted dandelion root tea

2 teaspoons vanilla syrup

¼ cup milk (whole, any nut milk, coconut or organic unsweetened soy)

Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan, heat on low setting to warm.

Pour warm mixture into a blender and blend for 30-45 seconds until frothy.

Pour into mug or over ice. Enjoy!

To decoct dandelion root for tea:

Combine 2 teaspoons dandelion root powder & 12 ounces water in small saucepan

Heat to simmer, cover, simmer for 10 minutes, remove from heat, steep 40 minutes

Strain

To prepare vanilla syrup:

Heat ¾ cup water in small saucepan, add ½ cup sugar, stir until dissolved.

Add ½ whole, split vanilla bean, cover, steep for 20 minutes.

Store in refrigerator

Mentions:

Dandy Blend Instant Herbal Beverage

Dandelion Root cut or powdered

Heilala Vanilla Syrup

Vanilla monograph from King's American Dispensatory 1898

The Trees on the Mountain from Susannah, Carlyle Floyd composer

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Kitchen Medicine: Green Sauces with Nettle

Fri, 31 May 2019 17:07:02 +0000

An installment in my continued commitment to not waste the abundant and aggressive nettle crop I have growing in my yard. These green sauces are an embrace of life for me, a pathway to the things that I love: recipe collecting, discovery of brilliant herbal use and reason to shop for interesting ingredients, green or otherwise. Please come along and sauce with me.

To Blanch Nettle/Remove the Sting:

Use tongs or gloves to handle prior to blanching

Heat a small amount of water in a large pot

Plunge nettle leaf into hot water or place in a steamer basket

Boil for 3-7 minutes until just wilted

Refresh with cold water or in a bowl of iced water

For Nettle Salsa Verde:

6-7 tomatillos, remove husks, scrub under water

4 cups nettle leaf (1/3 pound, blanched

1 sweet onion, peeled and quartered.

2-3 Serrano chilis

4 cloves garlic, peeled

12 to 15 sprigs of cilantro

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 1/2 tsp salt or to taste

find preparation instructions here

For Nettle Pesto:

3 cups nettle leaves, blanched

1/4 cup fresh mint leaves

1 clove garlic, chopped into pieces

1/2 cup pine nuts which you can toast a bit or you don't have to

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1/3 cup olive oil

1/4 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

2-3 tablespoons softened butter

salt and pepper to taste

Find preparation instructions here

Mentions:

Mediterranean Grains and Greens by Paula Wolfert

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Materia Medica: Dandelion

Sat, 18 May 2019 15:09:55 +0000

Materia medica tells a plant's story. Please join me to explore and appreciate one of the herbalism sweethearts, a far cry from bothersome weed. I hope by the end you will love dandelion and never want to spray it with chemicals again.

Taraxacum officinale = Dandelion: leaf, root, flower, stem

Photos of Tarasque in Tarascon, France

Sources for Dandelion:

Black Locust Gardens - fresh

Oshala Farm - dried

White PIne Community Farm - dried

Mountain Rose Herbs - dried leaf, root, roasted root, extracts, powder, capsules

Herbalist & Alchemist - leaf extract, root extract, glycerite

Dandelion Wine

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Herbal Pantry: Edible Weeds

Sun, 14 Apr 2019 21:02:38 +0000

Can we refashion the reputation of weeds? With many negative connotations surrounding weeds it's hard to switch their image to foods and herbal medicines to love. We may call them edible weeds or wild foods, but I would love to change the name. I'm working on my own relationship with weeds by getting to know lamb's quarters.

Mentions:

Edible Weeds

Online Foraging Course from the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine

Lamb's quarters photos

Book mentions:

Fasting and Feasting, The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray by Adam Federman

Honey from a Weed, Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia

by Patience Gray

Plats du Jour by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd

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Pop-Up Tea Salon: Masala Chai

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:16:44 +0000

Popping up here to offer you tea, through recipes instead of actually serving it. I promise for the time it takes to wait in line or sit in the drive thru, you can make your own chai, tweak it to how you like it and best of all experience some good medicine.

Recipe for Masala Chai

4 whole cloves

1/2 inch piece fresh ginger, that I've cut into thin slices

1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

4 or 5 grinds of pepper

1 ½ teaspoon loose leaf black tea

1 ¾ cup water

½ teaspoon honey

¼ cup organic milk (whole milk, soy milk, oat milk, nut milk or coconut milk)

Combine spices together in a small saucepan and add 1 3/4 cup or 14 ounces water. Bring to a gentle boil over medium low heat covered with lid slightly open. Simmer 20 minutes. Turn off heat, add 1 1/2 teaspoon loose leaf black tea. Cover with the lid tight, steep 10 minutes. Strain. Pour tea back into saucepan. Add honey and milk. Bring back to simmer and allow film ot form on top. Stir before drinking.

Ingredient Sources

Dona Chai Concentrate

Classic Chai from Mountain Rose Herbs

Oregon's Wild Harvest

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Kitchen Medicine: Wild Cherry Cough Syrup

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:47:58 +0000

Coughs can be so uncomfortable. Coughs can linger after the cold has long gone. Herbal cough syrups hold possibility to soothe and quiet a cough or support expectoration. Today's kitchen medicine has three steps and uses three herbs combined to make a cough syrup that keeps in the refrigerator for when you need it.

Ingredients for Wild Cherry Cough Syrup:

Dried Mullein Leaf, Dried Wild Cherry Bark, Dried Angelica Root

Water, Honey

Tinctures: 2 ounces each of Wild Cherry, Mullein Leaf and Angelica Root

Cough Syrup Recipe Instructions:

Day 1: make teas (measure as volume in glass measuring cup)

Wild Cherry Bark

6 ounce dried wild cherry bark

6 ounce room temperature or cool water

Combine in glass jar with lid

Let sit, covered at room temperature overnight or 12 hours. Strain.

Refrigerate until ready to use

Mullein Leaf

4 ounce dried mullein leaf

4 ounce hot water

Combine and steep for 30 minutes. Strain

Refrigerate until ready to use

Day 2: make honeys

Mullein Leaf

1 ounce prepared strong mullein tea

1 ounce honey

Gently warm tea, then stir in honey until dissolved

Angelica Root

5 ounce dried angelica root

5 ounce honey

Combine angelica root and honey in top of double boiler. Add 1-2 inches of water to bottom of double boiler and heat to gentle simmer. Add top of double boiler and cover. Simmer on lowest heat for 6-8 hours, stirring occasionally. Add more honey if needed so angelica root remains immersed in it. Strain while still warm.

Day 3: finish syrup

Measure 2 ounces of each tincture - angelica root, mullein leaf, wild cherry bark

Combine honeys, tea and tinctures in large (32oz) glass measuring cup. Stir to combine.

Pour into smaller bottles using a funnel for neatness. Label. Keep in refrigerator.

Mentions:

Mountain Rose Herbs - source for dried herbs

Jim McDonald, Herbalist - herbcraft.org

Juliet Blankespoor's Online Herbal Immersion

Herbalist & Alchemist - source for tinctures

Specialty Bottle - source for glass medicine bottles

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Herbal Pantry: Bereavement

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 01:03:38 +0000

Sometimes prayers are not answered. A dedication to my mom...

Mentions:

Herbalist & Alchemist Compound Formula: David Winston's Grief Relief

No Fear, No Death by Thich Nhat Hanh

Inward by Yung Pueblo

Herbs for next episode's Cough syrup:

Angelica Root

Wild Cherry Bark

Mullein Leaf

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Herbal Pantry: Cold and Flu Season Readiness

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:37:36 +0000

Adding herbs to a cold and flu season supply kit is easy and valuable peace of mind. Clear a space in your kitchen apothecary for dried herb blends for tea and steam inhalations, tinctures for prevention and symptoms as well as a few homemade syrups. Please listen in as I share my favorites.

Cold and Flu Kitchen Apothecary Survival Kit

Foods for medicine

Honey, garlic, onion, ginger, dried sage & thyme

Tea Blends

Chai blend - 2 parts cinnamon & ginger, 1 part cardamom, ½ part clove & black pepper

Diaphoretic blend - yarrow, peppermint, elderflower, linden flower

Steam inhalation Blend

2 peppermint & elderflower tea bags, a spoon of thyme, sage & oregano and a drop or two of lavender & eucalyptus essential oil

Tinctures and Syrups

For prevention - echinacea tincture, elderberry syrup

Tinctures for coughs - wild cherry bark, mullein leaf, angelica

Interested in a medicine making episode on elderberry syrup? Send me a message and let me know! dina@theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Mentions:

Favorite echinacea tincture: Herbalist & Alchemist Ultimate Echinacea

Echinacea glycerite

Elderberry glycerite

Favorite chaga chai: Masala chai from the Chaga Company

Favorite essential oil brand: Floracopeia

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Kitchen Medicine: Pungent Immune Supporting Tonic

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:00:00 +0000

There's no time like the present moment to stock up on kitchen medicine cabinet remedies that nourish the immune system, both for prevention and treating symptoms. This apple cider vinegar and honey combination is more like cooking than medicine making.

If you're cooking along while you listen, you will need the following:

½ cup grated fresh horseradish root, approximately 6-8 inch piece

½ cup chopped onions, (1 medium onion)

¼ cup chopped garlic, (about 10-12 cloves depending on their size)

¼ cup grated fresh ginger, (about a 4-6 inch piece)

Chopped fresh or dried chili pepper or ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper

32 ounces organic apple cider vinegar

½ cup honey

Equipment: 1 quart Mason jar with lid; cutting board, sharp knife, hand grater, wax paper

Mentions:

Herbmentor/Learning Herbs - there is a $10 monthly membership fee

Course: Rosemary's Remedies

#trademarkfreefirecider

Sources for Purchasing Fire Cider Immune Tonics

Herbal Revolution Fire Tonic

Locally Good Herbal Cider Tonic

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Herbal Pantry: Underground Vegetables

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Deep roots symbolize durability, resiliency and unfaltering character, they are grounded and strong. For plants, roots are a matter of life or death. Cut off a plant's roots then replant it, the plant won't survive. Autumn is the time for roots in the kitchen and in herbalism.

Burdock Root and Carrot Nut Torte: get the recipe here

Burdock Tea Decoction:

Combine 1 tablespoon burdock root, fresh or dried, for each 1 cup water in small saucepan, simmer covered 45 min to 1 hour, then steep for 45 minutes and strain.

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Garden Visit: with Horseradish Harvest and Weeding

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Autumn and roots go hand and hand. I'm outside foraging through my weedy disarrayed backward to find treasure in the form of horseradish root. Join me for a successful harvest.

Gardening podcasts:

Plantrama

Living Homegrown

Mentions:

Plants: horseradish, pokeweed, nettle, burdock, motherwort

Plant Healer Magazine

Chestnut School Of Herbal Medicine

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Materia Medica: Yarrow

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Do you have a top ten herb list? Is yarrow on your list? Some herbs have such a broad compass that they border on constructing a complete kitchen medicine cabinet. Yarrow is one of these herbs. We talk all about it in this materia medica monograph.

Herbrally - herbal monographs, podcast and much more

Latin Name: Achillea millefollium

Henriette's Herbal: Photos of Yarrow

Sources for Yarrow:

Mountain Rose Herbs : dried leaf & flower, powdered leaf & flower, seeds

Rosemary's Garden: dried leaf & flower

ZacK Woods Herb Farm: fresh & dried

Avena Botanicals: tincture, soak & salve

Healing Spirits Herb Farm: oil & salve

Herbalist & Alchemist: tinctures

Floracopeia: essential Oil

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Herbal Pantry: Kitchen First Aid Kit

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Mishaps don't give warnings. Topical herbal remedies, those we use externally on skin, deserve star status for first aid. Options for topical herbal first aid remedies include compresses, poultices, ointments, oils, salves, soaks and washes. Yarrow, a premier first aid herb that can stop bleeding, cleanse wounds and take away symptoms of inflammation, is our focus for today.

Henriette's Herbal: Photos of Yarrow

Sources for Yarrow:

Mountain Rose Herbs : dried leaf & flower, powdered leaf & flower, seeds

Rosemary's Garden: dried leaf & flower

ZacK Woods Herb Farm: fresh & dried

Healing Spirits Herb Farm: oil & salve

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Kitchen Medicine: Fruit Infusions

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Reluctant to ignore summer fruit in their abundant peak, I am infusing my favorite, cherries, to make a cordial. If you are preserving your favorite fruit by making jams, pickles or drying consider this as an alternative option.

Cherry Cordial Recipe

2 quart or 1 half gallon size jars

2 1/2 pounds of cherries, stems removed, washed

2 1/2 cups sugar

1½ vanilla bean

⅛ cup cardamom pods

2 cups bourbon

½ cup brandy

Place cherries into jar (no need to seed)

Add the cardamom and vanilla bean, then sugar and bourbon.

Put on lid, shake. Label.

Strain after 3 weeks, bottle liquid

Mentions:

Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen

Washing produce that is not organic

Study on washing produce to remove pesticides

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Kitchen Medicine: Herbal Butters and Tinctures featuring Sage

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Grateful to have a large bunch of fresh sage! I'm infusing some into butter to make cookies then turning the rest into a tincture. This is my first recording while baking - please let me know if you like it and want to hear more baking episodes!

Sage Infused Brown Butter

2 sticks unsalted butter, sliced into chunks
4-5 tablespoons fresh sage leaves, torn into small pieces

Heat butter in small saucepan over medium heat until melted. Cook until solids begin to brown about 6 minutes. Stir in sage and cook just until begins to crisp about 30 seconds. Whisk up brown solids and immediately pour into a glass bowl. Chill in refrigerator until just firm about 30 minutes.

Sage Butter and Lemon Shortbread recipe here

2 sticks sage infused butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 cups flour, sifted
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Grated lemon zest from one lemon

Preheat oven to 300.

Combine chilled sage butter and powdered sugar in bowl of electric mixer. Beat on medium high speed until light and creamy about 2 minutes.

Add flour, salt and lemon zest, beat on low speed until just mixed through, scraping down sides.

Transfer dough to a sheet of parchment paper and form into a rectangle with hands. Place another piece of parchment paper on top and roll out to about 8 inches by 6 inches so rectangle is about a 1/2 inch thick.

Remove top sheet of parchment paper. Transfer dough and bottom parchment paper to a baking sheet. Pierce all over with a fork.

Bake for 55-60 minutes until golden brown, rotate baking sheet once in middle.

Remove from oven and while still warm cut into 1 inch cookies. Then cool completely.

Store at room temperature.

Fresh Sage Tincture

100 grams fresh sage

200 ml 190 proof alcohol such as Everclear

Combine in mason jar so sage is completely covered with alcohol. Infuse at least 4 weeks. Strain and bottle liquid tincture.

Book Mentions:

Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide

The Flavor Bible by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg

The Herbalist in the Kitchen by Gary Allen

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Herbal Pantry: Buying Fresh Herbs

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Beyond culinary herbs, fresh medicinal herbs can be difficult to find. Why bother with fresh herbs? We can feel the vitality of plants through the energetic qualities of fresh herbs. There are many herb farms working extremely hard to supply high quality fresh and dried herbs and it is so good to support them.

Mentions:

American Botanical Council (ABC)

American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP)

University of Mississippi's National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR)

Botanicals Adulterant Prevention Program

Summary "Adulteration of Essential Oils"

Local Grower Resource from Mountain Rose Herbs

Short List of Herb Farms

Zack Woods Herb Farm - Vermont

Healing Spirits Herb Farm - NY

Ancestree Herbals - Washington

Barefoot Botanicals - Doylestown PA

Gentle Harmony Farm - North Carolina

Oshala Farm - Oregon

Pacific Botanicals - Oregon

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Materia Medica: Calendula

Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:00:00 +0000

Bright orange calendula flowers resemble rays of sunshine. As a warming, soothing herbal remedy calendula supports skin health, wound healing and so much more.

Sources for Calendula(Calendula officinalis):

Fresh Calendula:

Local Grower Resource from Mountain Rose Herbs

Dried Calendula and Topical Calendula Oil & Salve:

Frontier Co-op

Strictly Medicinal Herbs

Juliet Blankespoor and the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine

Mentions:

Rosemary Gladstar's Books

Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health

Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide

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Herbal Pantry: The Medicine Maker

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 09:00:00 +0000

When we add our individual thoughts and love to the medicine we make the result is powerful. Regardless of level of herbal experience, you are the ultimate medicine maker for those you love.

Mentions:

Sam Coffman

Rosemary Gladstar:

Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health

Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide

Juliet Blankespoor and the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine

Daniel Boorstin

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Kitchen Medicine: Refreshing Herbal Tea Smoothie

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Exploring herbal tea blends - delicious, healing, versatile in the kitchen

Refreshing Herbal Tea Blend

HIbiscus (HIbiscus sabdariffa) - 1½ part

Lemongrass (Cymbopobon citratus) - 1 part

Violet leaf (Viola sororia) - 1 part

Ginger (Zingiber officinalis) - ¼ part

To Brew: Combine 2 teaspoons dried herbs with 12 ounces hot water, steep 25 minutes.

Herbal Tea Smoothie

10 ounces brewed herbal tea

1 frozen banana

6 strawberries (or any other fruit)

¼ cup almond milk (substitute coconut milk or any other milk)

3-5 iced cubes

Blend all ingredients together until smooth.

Herbalist Mentions:

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Herbal Pantry: Cooling Herbs

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Excess heat, whether from summer or internal energetic influences, can be completely uncomfortable and create tension and pain. In this episode, I talk about the natural element of fire and how cooling herbs can be a rescue when it is out of balance in our lives.

Herb Sources

Zack Woods Farm

Many apologies for the sound quality of this episode! I had some inside challenges and at the last minute recorded outside. I hope the birds and construction noises are not annoying and distracting xoxo

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Garden Visit with Yarrow and Flower Essences

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Flowers have the ability to deepen our personal experience with herbalism. Flower essences extract energetic elements of a plant and gently nudge our spiritual growth. Join me in my garden to prepare a flower essence with yarrow blossoms.

Flower essence extract preparation

Steps:

Infuse flower blooms in spring water in sunlight or moonlight
Strain flower essence water and dilute 50/50 with alcohol to make a Mother Essence
Dilute once again by mixing 50/50 water and brandy and add 1-7 drops of Mother Essence

Source for glass bottles:

Specialty Bottle

Mentions:

Asia Suler - One Willow Apothecaries

Bach Flower Remedies

Sajah Popham - School of Evolutionary Herbalism

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Kitchen Medicine: Bitters and Dandelion Green Pesto

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:00:00 +0000

I'm talking all about bitters and how we can put our taste buds in rehab with dandelion green pesto.

Dandelion Green Pesto Recipe: get the recipe HERE

(adapted from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking and Deb Soule's How to Move Like a Gardener)

2 1/2 cups fresh partially chopped dandelion greens

1/4 cup basil leaves

1/4 cup cilantro leaves

2-4 cloves garlic

2 tablespoons walnuts

2 tablespoons pine nuts

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup olive oil

⅓ cup Romano cheese, grated

4 tablespoons butter, softened to room temperature

Blend all together in food processor until smooth. Stir in cheese and butter by hand.

Sources for bitter formula tinctures:

Urban Moonshine

Herbal Revolution

Mentions:

Herbalist Training - David Winston's Center for Herbal Studies

Grubb Street articles

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Herbal Pantry: Organization and Herbal Action

Thu, 31 May 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Herbal actions put a name to a plant's primarily performance in our body. I'm organizing my herbal pantry into actions and talking in detail about alterative herbs. This category of herbal actions may be the support our bodies need for healthy metabolism.

Mentions:

Alterative Herbs

Eclectic Medicine

Jim McDonald, herbcraft.org

Calendula infusion: 2 tablespoons dried calendula flowers & 12 ounces hot water; infuse for 20 minutes; strain

Sources for dried calendula:

Rosemary's Garden

Starwest Botanicals

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Materia Medica: Burdock

Thu, 24 May 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Materia Medica translates to materials of medicine. Our material today is burdock. I'm also talking about how a plant's healing abilities reach beyond the physical into our heart and spirit.

You can find the full nettle profile HERE but here's a quick episode recap:

* emotional and spiritual qualities of burdock

* considerations for growing burdock for food and medicine

* energetics and actions

* using burdock in cooking

* herbal burdock preparations

* specific indications for burdock as medicines

Mentions:

Sajah Popham The School of Evolutionary Herbalism

Stephen Harrod Buhner The Institute of Gaian Studies

Matthew Wood's Institute of Herbalism

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Kitchen Medicine: Prebiotics from Herbal Roots

Thu, 17 May 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Digestion is foundational to our health and well-being. Today we focus on herbal roots that provide inulin. This prebiotic is vital to keeping the friendly microbes in our body happy as well as our digestion. And then I'm back in the kitchen to make super easy electuaries with powdered roots. 🍠🍯

Herbal Root Prebiotic Electuaries

1 1/2 parts (1 1/2 tsp) dried burdock root powder

1 part (1 tsp) dried dandelion root powder

1 1/2 parts (1 1/2 tsp) dried chicory root, powder

1 1/2 parts (1 1/2 tsp) dried marshmallow root powder

1 part (1 tsp) cacao powder

1/8 part (1/8 tsp) dried ginger powder

2 1/2 parts (2 1/2 tsp) organic maple syrup (approximately)

Grind herbs in a spice grinder to a fine powder. Mix all ingredients together, adding the maple syrup gradually to form a thick paste. With hands roll into 1/4 inch round, small balls.

Source for dried herbs

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Kitchen Medicine: Decocting Burdock Root Broth

Thu, 10 May 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Savory herbal decoctions second as broth, a vegetarian counterpart to bone broth. In contrast this herbal broth makes a lighter spring summer version. This is my spring cleanse, metabolic tonic with added immune strengthening capability. And so simple to make. 🍵 💚

Burdock Root Photos

Springtime Tonic Burdock Root Broth

Herbs: 1 part = 1/2 cup

3/4 cup dried burdock root, Arctium lappa (1 1/2 parts)

1/2 cup dried dandelion leaf, Taraxacum officinale (1 part)

1/2 cup dried red clover, Trifolium pratense (1 part)

3 jujube dates, Zizyphus jujuba, chopped

Sea Vegetable:

2 tablespoon dried kombu flakes, Saccharina latissma

Fungi:

1/2 cup dried shiitake mushrooms, Lentinula edodes (1 part)

1/2 cup dried maitake mushrooms, Grifola frondosa (1part)

2 quarts (8 cups) water

Combine all ingredients in a large stock pot. Pour in water. Bring to gentle simmer over medium high heat. Cover with lid and turn to lowest heat setting. Simmer for 45 minutes to one hour. Turn off heat and let stand covered for 45 minutes. Strain. then store either in a glass jar or freeze for later use.

Ingredient Sources:

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Materia Medica: Nettle

Thu, 03 May 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Materia Medica is a fancy way of telling a plant's story and the herbal monograph documents it in an organized way. In this episode I share my own monograph on nettle. 🌿📜

You can find the full nettle profile HERE but here's a quick episode recap:

* plant personalities and their stories

* considerations for growing nettle

* where to buy

* using fresh nettle in cooking

* herbal nettle preparations

* specific indications for nettle - leaf | root | seed

Mentions:

Matthew Wood's Books

Susan Weed | Wise Woman Way

7song | Northeast School of Botanical Medicine

Sources for Nettle Teas and Tinctures:

Local Herb Growers

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Garden Visit with Nettle

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Welcome to my backyard.. I'm talking nature awareness, plant people, growing and gathering nettle. ☀️

Pardon the contractor noise.

Nettle Gathering Outfit: gardening gloves, long sleeves, long pants

Favorite Garden Gloves 🧤

Lessons and Steps:

Select planting area carefully
Plant seeds sparingly
Wear gloves when touching fresh nettles
Offer gratitude and gift prior to picking nettle, or any plant
Cut top 4-5 leaves with small pruners
Collect fresh nettles in a sturdy pot or bag
Steam or dry quickly after gathering

Sources to buy nettle

Seeds from Mountain Rose Herbs

Book review:📗

Deb Soule's How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants

Phyllis D. Light, Appalachian Center for Natural Health

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Herbal Pantry: On Being Nettled

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Nettle will never be the new kale unless we negotiate its sting. We delve deep into the why of nettle sting, how it feels, then diffuse it by turning fresh to dried.

Recipe:

Nette-infused hot cocoa 🍃☕️

For one cup:

1 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder (non-alkalinized, organic)

1 Tablespoon honey (raw, local)

8 ounces nettle tea (2 tsp to 8 ounce water)

1 ounce whole coconut milk

Prepare nettle tea. Combine with all other ingredients in saucepan and heat over low heat, whisking together until warm. Do not overheat.

For one quart:

1/3 cup cocoa

1/3 cup honey

32 ounces nettle tea (2 1/2 tablespoons to 32 ounces water)

1/2 cup whole coconut milk

Mentions:

Bundling Herbs for Drying

Review of Food Dehydrator

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

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Kitchen Medicine: Nutrient Rich Nettle Infused Vinegar

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Wondering how to use stinging nettles without suffering a sting? In today's kitchen medicine making venture we embrace dried nettles - sting deactivated - infusing them into vinegar. The result: a vitamin and mineral packed ingredient for your herbal pantry. 🍾

Nettle Leaf (Urtica dioica)

Recipe for nettle-infused vinegar

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup dried nettle leaf, powdered if possible

* 1 cup apple cider vinegar or 1 cup Balsamic vinegar (organic preferred)

* 12 ounce jar with plastic lid or metal lid with double piece of wax paper

Directions:

Powder dried nettle leaf in a spice or coffee grinder, pulse for a few seconds. (If no spice grinder is available, crumble leaves as much as you can)
Add nettles to a clean glass jar, pour in vinegar.
Secure lid and label with ingredients and dates that you made it and date it will be ready to strain.
Store in cool place out of direct sunlight.
Infuse for four weeks, shaking every few days.
Stain with small hand strainer lined with cheesecloth. Squeeze out as much vinegar as possible. Make a tea or compost used nettles.

Nutrient benefits of Nettle Leaf 🌿

Calcium | Magnesium | Iron | Silicon

Potassium | Fiber | Protein

Vitamin A | Vitamin C | Vitamin K

Chlorophyll | Flavonoids | Carotenoids

Mentions:

David Hoffman - medical herbalist, author

Zack Woods Herb Farm

Organoleptic Evaluation of Herbs: How to Evaluate the Quality of Dried Herbs in 3 Simple Steps

Sources for dried nettle leaf

Rosemary's Garden