What are your go-to salads? Green salad, cucumber salad, fresh corn or tomato salad?
And what about the dressing??
We also make lots of quinoa or potato salads, but truly, no matter what kind of salad you make, doesn’t it really all come down to the dressing?
People will eat your salad, go ahead and add a great dressing and listen to them ooh and aahh and sigh when they eat your salad.
Phyllis D. Light taught me this method for cooking dried beans. It’s super easy and makes the creamiest, most nutritious beans you can imagine. It’s easy to adapt it to beans other than the pinto beans I used here, and I give tips for how to scale it up if you want more than one meal from your pot of beans.
Many, if not all, Herbalists and Herbal Traditions recognize the
Herbal Vinegars infused with plant-medicine properties are one of the best home remedies for preventing illness, like colds and flus. You can use them to boost your digestion and strengthen your Immune System. And, they’re easy to make. Here’s how…
Pickles are foods, like cucumbers or red onions, that have been submerged in an acid solution, usually vinegar in Western tradition but in Ayurveda lemon and citrus are often as not key acidifiers. Pickling veggies helps begin the breaking-down of their chemical structures and encourages enzymatic activity.
Monarda has been used for a variety of respiratory and digestive complaints through the ages. It’s got some of the same chemical constituents as Thyme, one of my personal favorites for defeating some of the really tough cold/flus my family has faced over the past decade
Sue and Candace share a sampling of herbal care that they rely on for shoring up physical and mental health needs.
Rosalee de la Forêt, herbalist and author of the best selling book, The Alchemy of Herbs spends time sharing with Herb Nerd Society members about a delicious herbal option that is growing in popularity. Oxymels used to be considered old-fashioned medicine.
Oxymels are classic herbal remedies for drying the respiratory system.
Today, we talked about a selection of Oxymels we made using Rosalee’s recipe for Thyme Oxymel from Alchemy of Herbs.
I like to add a little extra zing to my oxymels. I put in aromatic barks or roots or resinous plant parts that are tricky to extract in vinegar at the end of the oxymel process.
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