With my basil (okay… Rick’s basil ) growing so beautifully, I was inspired to make some savory muffins featuring fresh basil – thought up this recipe from my basic muffin mix recipe and it worked very nicely. Ingredients: Dry ingredients 2 cups Flour 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Baking Soda (Bicarbonate of Soda) [...]
To view our monthly herb newsletter for January 2012 and learn more about growing and using herbs, with a focus this month on the rose, herb of the year for 2012, please follow this link: Herbalicious News: January 2012 Happy Herbing! Minette
Tags: Rose
As a treat for myself and my two little girls I decided to make some bath bombs today. In celebration of the herb of the year 2012, and because it is so gentle on my little one’s skins and beautifully florally, I decided to make them with Rose essential oil and rose petals. They really [...]
Once an official pharmaceutical preperation in America, this Honey of Red Rose (Rosa gallica – Apothecary’s Rose) is good for sore mouths and throats and is delicious and easy to make: Loosely fill a jar with fresh rose petals which have been rinsed and patted dry. Add enough clear honey to cover the petals and [...]
Ingredients 2 egg whites, at room temperature 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup water 1 cup loosely packed red rose petals, rinsed and patted dry ½ cup granulated sugar 4 teaspoons rose syrup 1/3 cup half-and-half 2 teaspoons lemon juice candied rose petals, for garnish Instructions In a mixing bowl, beat the egg whites [...]
What’s looking good and what not and how to maintain the herb garden at the height of the growing season.
How to make a pink Tuscan herb infused vinaigrette from the tops of your dark opal basil plants.
Tags: basil, herbal vinegar
Leia (my youngest little one) has had a bit of sensitive skin since birth, but over this last winter her eczema has flared up something terrible. Of course, the paediatricians all happily recommend cortisone creams and such, but I’ve been looking at a more herbal approach (naturally!). I’ve been bathing her in a mixture of [...]
Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea, E. pallida and E. angustifolia) is a firm favourite as immune builder and is very popular this time of the year when there is someone with a sniffle and a cough around almost every corner. Echinacea, or purple coneflower, can be taken as a herb tea, but it is particularly the tincture [...]
“Give me a fever, and I can cure any illness” – Hippocrates When my four year old daughter had a consistently high fever recently, I did a lot of reading on children’s fevers, and in particular the naturopathic way to manage them. I thought to share some of the basics of what I’ve learnt: What [...]
Tags: catnip, chamomile, children's herbs, elderflower, fever, garlic, ginger, lemon balm, liquorice, naturopathic, peppermint
