Results for Category: Eat Well
Dandelion Greens: 3 Simple Recipes for Spring
As temperatures warm, snow melts, and blossoms emerge, spring cleaning seems to be on everyone’s mind. While some opt for a haircut or a closet purge during this transitional time of year, others may feel compelled to lighten up on more than one level. One way is with these 3 dandelion greens recipes. According to […]
Milk Thistle Gomasio: An Herbal Flavoring Salt For Spring Meals
As the flowers awake after the cold days of winter, we often feel a nudge to embrace new growth and shed our winter coats. Spring ...
4 DIY Edible Herbal Gifts To Make At The Last Minute
The holidays are truly in full swing! Hanukkah celebrations are well underway and Christmas is right around the corner, with Kwanz...
How to Enhance Holiday Cooking with Herbs
Whether you are hosting a holiday meal this year or looking forward to making some festive dishes to enjoy throughout the season, here are some tips and tricks to help you when it comes to including herbs in your own holiday cooking. For many of us, the holiday season is filled with warm memories of […]
Pumpkin Spice Wellness Benefits You Should Know About
It’s officially fall in North America. Many things hearken this wonderful transitional season: cozy sweaters, big scarves, falling leaves, scary movies, and treasured final harvests from vegetable gardens. Few things are more emblematic to the season, however than pumpkin spice. It’s a flavor that many find entirely comforting. Feelings associated with the blend of spices […]
Health Benefits And Uses of Cassava Root
We are lucky to have an abundance of gluten-free and paleo diet options available to us these days, and if you are anything like m...
6 Green Storage Tips for Food
Now that summer is in full swing and our gardens are bursting with healthy fruits and vegetables, we need to store our produce for...
6 Herbal Mocktail Recipes for the 4th of July
When summer approaches, patios begin to bustle, umbrellas and sun hats come out, and perhaps you even find yourself on a blanket at the beach. During this laidback time of the year, we are often accompanied by a favorite libation to aid our relaxation. While there is a heavy emphasis on alcohol in today’s culture, […]
Cooking With Edible Mushrooms: A Beginner’s Guide
When it comes to cooking with edible mushrooms, the options are exciting, creative, and vast. Even for the novice chef who is just dipping their toe into the world of edible mushrooms, culinary options span far beyond the common button mushroom. Curious looking fungi such as morel (Morchella esculentoides), enoki (Flammulina velutipes), porcini (Boletus edulis), […]
Adaptogen Bliss Balls Recipe & Video
Adaptogens are a category of tonic herbs that are often used to keep the general terrain of the body healthy and functioning prope...
Vegan Spice Guide For Vegan Cooking
Vegan foods can get a bad rap for being bland and tasteless. In the Western world, meat has become a predominant part of every mea...
A Warming Turmeric Cauliflower Soup For Chilly Winter Days
Winter is here, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably craving soup! There is nothing better on a chilly evening, wrapped in a blanket with loved ones, than sipping from a bowl of warm, soothing soup. Turmeric (Curcuma longa) and cauliflower are gaining popularity in many healthy recipes as they have a plethora of […]
How To Make A DIY Herbal-Infused Broth
Are herbal-infused broths the new tea?! Although nothing can truly compete with a nourishing cup of herbal tea, an herbal-infused broth is a tasty alternative way to enjoy your herbs and add a nutritious boost to your meals all year long. Herbal-infused broths can be incorporated into soups and other dishes or enjoyed on their […]
How To Make DIY Herbal Soup Rings
Autumn is the season for colored leaves, warm clothes, and hearty comfort foods. And while those things may bring a sense of rest ...
How To Make Pickled Burdock Root
The first time I tasted a burdock root pickle, I was helping herbalist Rosemary Gladstar prepare for her demonstration at a Mother...
Urban Farming in Nashville, Tennessee: A Family Lineage
If you find yourself in Nashville enjoying one of its hippest neighborhoods, East Nashville, you may stumble upon an unexpected, yet welcome, attraction: Double N Urban Farm, home to Stomping Ground Herbals. Amidst this growing city that draws new inhabitants estimated at close to 100 people a day (Reicher, 2018), Nashville native, Nicole Mattingly, runs […]
Turmeric Lemonade: Health Benefits & How To Make It
There is something so beautifully simple about using herbs and roots to live a healthy life. The familiar adage, eat the rainbow is apropos – it is not hard to imagine the health benefits of ground beet root powder with its bright red color or the beautiful blue-green shade of the superfood spirulina. Turmeric is […]
The Top 5 Ayurvedic Kitchen Spices to Keep In Stock
If you love spicy food, then perhaps you instinctually appreciate the aromatic, colorful allure of well-spiced cuisine. For some, ...
5 Herbal Cookbooks For Your Kitchen
Cooking with herbs can be one of the more delicious and rewarding ways to integrate herbs into our daily life. In fact, herbs have...
How To Stay Calm and Cool with Lemon Balm Lemonade
Are you ready for the summer heat? In this post, I’ll show you how to make lemon balm lemonade. Stay calm, cool, and hydrated all summer long with this herbal twist on an old favorite. Summer Days While summer is a time of lazy days and longer nights, it can also be busy and full […]
Sunbutter Cookies: A Tasty Treat
Full disclosure. This cookie recipe was born out of my own laziness. While living in San Francisco, I was lounging on my couch one foggy afternoon, dreaming of fresh baked cookies. The only problem was that I was feeling too cheap and lackadaisical to go to any great lengths to procure baked goods that required […]
12 Herbal Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes For This Year’s Celebrations
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and we’re all planning our big meals. If I asked you to name a few herbs or spices you m...
How To Stock A Vegan Pantry
Just over a year ago, after watching a few documentaries, my partner approached me and suggested we embrace a plant-based lifestyl...
Maitake 101: A Valuable Mushroom (+ Maitake Barley Risotto Recipe!)
Early October in New England means many things: cool and sunny days, peak fall color, crisp apples, and icy cold cider come to mind, for starters. More obscure but no less exciting (for some of us)—it’s maitake time. Maitake what? Maitake mushrooms, also called hen-of-the-woods, or Grifola frondosa. If we’ve gotten enough precipitation in late […]
3 Cooling Herbal Teas For Summer
The long, lazy days of summer can be an idyllic respite from the hustle and bustle and routine of the rest of the year—in some ways summer just feels easier. Schedules relax a bit and many of us make more time for play and relaxation. The long hours of daylight invite earlier mornings or late […]
9 Edible Flowers And How To Use Them
The use of edible flowers in cooking is an act of pure earthly delight! Fragrance and sheer beauty combine to create a truly sensu...
4 Ways To Use Leftover Orange Peels
If you’re a fan of oranges, you may find yourself with an overabundance of leftover orange peels in your home, especially when o...
Cooling Cucumber Mint Limeade For Hot Summer Days
I have to be honest—when I first stumbled upon cucumber mint limeade, I was hesitant but intrigued. I like cucumbers, but have never had a cucumber drink, at least not outside of juicing. I did some research and found that many people really enjoy this drink. In fact, it is a popular agua fresca served […]
How To Make Herbal Kombucha Champagne
Our new Short Course—The Craft of Herbal Fermentation, is live and we’re thrilled to be welcoming students into the world of herbal fermentation. In fact, we’re getting so much great feedback about this course (including a lot of interest in the Kombucha Unit from class) that we are excited to share another recipe with you. […]
Vegan Herb And Veggie Stew
Because nothing says warming and comforting winter foods quite like a big, hearty bowl of stew. Yes, even vegan herb and veggie st...
