In Eastern medicine it is common to add a paper bag of ingredients to something like a soup. Things like dried fruit, bark, twigs, roots or deer antler/gelatin. This becomes medicine instead of something a Western herbalist might prescribe like a tincture. These soups typically have chicken, rice, and vegetables. If you have traveled muchContinue reading “Chicken Soup Medicine for the Soul (Lycium/GOJI berries)”
Category Archives: Food Recipes
Lemon Balm Honey Butter
As herbalists we are very familiar with using the medicinal properties of herbs and fats in the forms of infused oils and salves. Plants have many fat soluble properties such as certain vitamins, pigments, steroids, alkaloids, lipids, waxes, triterpenoids, chlorophyll, saponin, carotenoids, phytoestrogens, and volatile oils just to name a few. Plants in the mintContinue reading “Lemon Balm Honey Butter”
Gluten Free Black Currant Cake
I love the color and texture of this cake. I was not sure how our fresh black currants would taste in it as our berries are a bit spicy. But the sugar and almond extract provided the needed balance. There are not many recipes that I have found to use up all of our blackContinue reading “Gluten Free Black Currant Cake”
Matcha, Mint, and Cantaloupe Popsicles
Even though we have a month until the fall equinox, it feels like summer flew by and has already ended. My kids start school tomorrow. I have to remind myself that there are still many weeks left of harvesting, weeding, flowers, outdoor dinners, and lovely weather. For those hot days still to come this isContinue reading “Matcha, Mint, and Cantaloupe Popsicles”
Basil and Peach Salad
My husband loves to buy boxes of Palisade peaches this time of year. The over ripe ones are cheaper but they have to be used up quickly. I have been making this salad during the summers for more than a decade. It still remains a favorite of mine. It is the perfect way to useContinue reading “Basil and Peach Salad”
Blackbird's Backyard Pharmacy 