It is Friday, so it is time for my next holiday recipe. It is now less than 3 weeks till Christmas and I am in complete disbelief by how quickly it is approaching. At least I have gotten a lot of the shopping done that I need to do….
I have made this recipe for roasted [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Holidays, Recipes on December 8th, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday I finished knitting this pair of mittens for my youngest son, L-man. He likes bright and crazy colors so these fit his personality perfectly. And I am hoping that considering how bright they are they will be hard to loose! Both yarns I hand dyed. The orange is dyed with annatto seeds. The yellow [...]
Filed under: Dyeing with Herbs, Finished Objects, Herbs, Knitting, Natural Dyes on December 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
Eucalyptus is another herb I really like to have around the house, especially this time of year. It is so good for colds and stuffy noses. I am prone to sinus infections so I like to keep a bottle of eucalyptus essential oil on hand. When my nose is stuffy due to allergies or a [...]
Filed under: Dyeing, Dyeing with Herbs, Essential Oils, Herbs, Knitting on November 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As I mentioned in my post last Friday, I plan on posting one holiday related recipe a week from now until Christmas. The one for this week is centered around an herb I love to use: Ginger.
Ginger is one of my favorite herbs to have on hand. It is useful for so many things, not [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Holidays, Recipes on November 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Filed under: Dyeing, Dyeing with Herbs, Herbs, Knitting on November 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
I can’t believe it has been a week since I last posted. Bad, bad, bad. Time is flying for me these days. I don’t feel like I have been that busy but I guess I must be since the days zoom by anymore.
My knitting list continues to taunt me. It also continues to grow! [...]
Filed under: Comfrey, Dyeing, Dyeing with Herbs, Herbs, Tansy, Yellow Dock on November 6th, 2007 | No Comments »
I baked up some anise seed cookies today (recipe follows). Anise seed (Pimpinella anisum) is one of my favorite herbs even though it is not commonly used. I like the fact that it has culinary uses as well as having many medicinal properties. It’s actually a very useful herb. A bonus is that it is [...]
Filed under: Anise, Herbs, Recipes on October 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My last post on elderberries got me thinking about how I should post where I get all of my dried herbs, essential oils, and other herbal supplies from. For over 7 years now I have been a very loyal customer to Mountain Rose Herbs. The quality of their dried herbs is excellent. Their bulk herbs [...]
Filed under: Anise, Comfrey, Dyeing, Dyeing with Herbs, Elderberry, Goldenrod, Herbs, Tansy, Yellow Dock on October 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
This past week a nasty cold ran it’s course through my household. Thankfully I had elderberry on hand. I was very impressed by just how much it helped everyone get over the cold quickly. As soon as one of us showed signs of the cold hitting I doctored them up with either elderberry syrup or a [...]
Filed under: Anise, Dyeing, Elderberry, Herbs, Recipes on October 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are the three skeins I dyed. The top one is the skein that was dyed with yellow dock. The middle skein was dyed with comfrey and the bottom one was dyed using tansy. The camera doesn’t show just how rich the colors really are.
Filed under: Comfrey, Dyeing, Dyeing with Herbs, Tansy, Yellow Dock on September 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
