Dandelion Chive Pesto Recipe for Spring
Research has shown that about half of U.S. adults don’t get enough of the vitamins and minerals that leafy greens provide, including magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, and more. Our bodies need those nutrients to carry out cellular processes and repairs, but many of us find it difficult to get an adequate amount of those all-important greens. Enter… pesto! Pesto is a fantastic way to bring fresh greens and herbs—with all their flavor and nutrients—to your meals. Adding fresh herbs helps our bodies improve nutrient uptake by increasing digestibility, supporting the enzymes and probiotics in the gut, and helping to catalyze digestive processes. When you have pesto on hand, it’s easy to top any cooked food with fresh greens! When you think of pesto, you might think of the delicious basil version, but our friend, herbalist Kami McBride, has four new pesto recipes for you to try, because the world of pesto is bigger than basil.
Salad Dressings from Around the World: 4 Recipes for Summer Salads
There are a lot of reasons to love summer, but a big one here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon is the wealth of fresh garden and farm produce. We’re heading into salad season, always a good opportunity to explore new flavors and ways to enjoy the freshest greens, ripest tomatoes, crispest cucumbers, sweetest corn, and more. We’ve got four standout salad dressing recipes from around the world for you to enjoy this season, along with ideas about how to best use them: horiatiki from Greece, wafu from Japan, esquites from Mexico, and tahini-lemon from the Middle East. Enjoy!
Food as Medicine | Tea Talks Roundtable
In this “Tea Talks Roundtable,” Jiling discusses the topic of “Food as Medicine” with herbalists Christa Sinadinos, Rona Leah, Jana Kilgore, and Mary Colvin. With our collective herbal experience as two professional cooks, three book authors, two herb school founders, and five herbalists working with different populations, teaching styles, and botanical expertise– you can expect a fun and delicious conversation!
We explore:
everyday strategies to integrate Food as Medicine into your average diet and lifestyle
delicious culinary spices
common wild herbs (in different bioregions) to supplement standard kitchen herbs
easy to find foods and herbs that can be used medicinally while traveling
breakfast strategies and considerations
nutritional snacks
different preparations for common wild herbs
specific recipes like Rona’s Herb Sauce, Demulcent Waters, Christa’s Schug, and Jana’s Morning Chai!
Tulsi Moon Milk Recipe
Find the full recipe + two other moon milk variations here: https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/3-…
If you’re longing for a restful slumber, you may want to add moon milk to your list of sleepy-time beverage options. This herbal drink has a lovely flavor that is perfectly complemented by the mellow sweetness of coconut. This beverage calls upon the stress-relieving properties of holy basil, also commonly called tulsi, and hops flowers. We hope you sip slowly and dream sweetly!
DIY World Spice Blends
All too often it’s easy to use the same spices over and over again. If they work, then why not? I sprinkle Italian seasoning on just about everything. Turmeric powder and smoked salt are two other popular staples in my houshold. But this season I was determined to bring some new flavors into my kitchen. I’m thrilled to say that these blends did just the trick!
The Art of Culinary Creations
Food is art. It is an art blended from culture and experience, passion, and appetite. But only fresh and vibrant spices can truly make your culinary creations come to life. Mountain Rose Herbs has provided farm-fresh organic spices since 1987 and continues to be the supplier of choice for home cooks and professional chefs alike.
11 Superfood Powders to Sprinkle Into Your Diet
Eating a healthy, balanced diet of whole, minimally processed foods is the best way to harness the long-term nutritional benefits, important fiber, micronutrients, phytochemicals, and other organic compounds that support a healthy body and mind. But did you know that an easy way to boost those all-important nutrients, fill in nutritional gaps, and add supportive herbs is to make herbal powders part of your daily life?
Powdered herbs—whether we speak of culinary spices like cinnamon and garlic powder or nutritive herbs like acai, nettle leaf, and mushrooms— are highly nutritious, easily absorbed by our bodies, wonderfully convenient, and versatile in how we can use them. When stored correctly, they retain their nutrients, fiber, and flavor for months at a time. We can cook with them, make tea from them, add them to smoothies and juices, put them in capsules, or simply take them with water. They can also be added to skin and hair-care products and used as poultices and compresses.
Check out these 11 herbal powders that make it easy to bring added health benefits into your life!
Herbs for Health: 11 Superfood Powders to Sprinkle Into Your Diet
Powdered herbs—whether we speak of culinary spices like cinnamon and garlic powder or nutritive herbs like acai, nettle leaf, and mushrooms—bring together the best of several worlds. They are highly nutritious, easily absorbed by our bodies, wonderfully convenient, and versatile in how we can use them. When stored correctly, herbal powders retain their nutrients, fiber, and flavor for about a year. And they are supremely easy to use. We can cook with them, make tea from them, add them to smoothies and juices, put them in capsules, or simply take them with water. They can also be added to skin and hair-care products and used as poultices for everyday insect bites/stings or minor abrasions. For many of us, herbal powders are the first herbs we ever used: in the form of the dried spices and herbs we add to our food for flavor. Let’s take a look at some of the healthful powdered herbs that are as easy to incorporate into our daily lives as adding salt and pepper to a meal.
How to Make Herbal Syrups for Cocktails, Mocktails, Pancakes, & More!
Homemade simple syrups infused with dried herbs are a handy ingredient to have at the ready and as the name implies, they are incredibly easy to make! If you can boil water, you can make simple syrup. Herb-infused syrups can be added to carbonated water, brushed on cakes, drizzled on yogurt or pancakes, and, of course, added to mocktails! They are also a great way to take herbs without the use of alcohol and are especially great for getting kids to willfully add healthy ingredients to their diet.
Homemade Mushroom Bouillon + Seasoning Salt Recipe
If you love the convenience of instant noodles, but want to avoid the unhealthy additives in store-bought ramen-style soups, we have the perfect solution; easy, quick, homemade mushroom bouillon powder with extra herbal goodness! Whether you use it as powder or make it into bouillon paste, this DIY mushroom bouillon offers up the delicious umami flavor and health-supporting superpowers of shiitake mushrooms combined with an herb-centered seasoning salt blend, plus added protein, fiber, minerals, and vitamins from nutritional yeast flakes. It’s perfect for noodle bowls, roasted and sautéed vegetables, omelettes, and more. You can make the seasoning salt and the bouillon in less than fifteen minutes and keep them on hand for super-quick meals in the future. Just be sure to purchase ramen or gluten-free noodles without unhealthy preservatives, and you’re on your way to a delicious, healthy, super-fast noodle bowl.
