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 »
I have a really nice pineapple sage plant in my herb garden right now. It is really enjoying the mellow fall we have been having. It is blooming like crazy this week.Everytime I eye the brillant red flowers I wonder what kind of dye they would produce. I decided to find out for myself [...]
Filed under: Dyeing, Dyeing with Herbs, Herbs, Knitting on November 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
With the holidays rapidly approaching I thought it might be fun to post a recipe a week with the recipes being centered around a holiday theme. So starting today, every Friday until Christmas, I am going to post one of my own personal recipes for this time of the year. I will start it all [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Holidays, Recipes on November 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 »
