{This post is sponsored by iHerb} Dandelion root is one of my favorite medicinal herbs to use for many reasons. It is great for digestion and can be used to make digestive bitters. It is also a tonic for the liver and is high in many trace vitamins and minerals. When dandelion root is roasted…
Desserts and Baking
Lemon + Lavender Shortbread Cookies
{This post is sponsored by Mountain Rose Herbs} I have a thing for shortbread cookies. I also have a thing for edible flowers. So it makes total sense to combine the two in my mind! Dried lavender is an edible and medicinal flower that I always make sure to have on hand, because I use…
Zucchini Spice Bread (Made With Butter)
We all know that fall is all about pumpkin spice everything, but why don’t we have a zucchini spice craze in the summertime? I’m about to change that! Zucchini is abundant in gardens everywhere, and can be used in yummy baked goods like this zucchini spice bread. When I was first searching for a zucchini…
Rhubarb Upside Down Cake
Rhubarb is an interesting vegetable that is most commonly eaten as a fruit. It is tart and delicious with an old time flavor that grows on you over time. I love it, and was very excited to discover a rhubarb plant growing in our backyard when we moved into this house last year. Rhubarb is…
Meyer Lemon and Rosemary Shortbread Cookies
The dark and dreary winter is often brightened by beautiful citrus. Even though I don’t live in a place where citrus can grow naturally, I still enjoy it while I can. There are many ways to use and preserve citrus, and I often turn to making lemon or grapefruit curd, as I can’t get enough…
Redwood Needle Shortbread Cookies
Foraging in the wintertime can sometimes be difficult, but there are always conifer needles. Any recipe that uses conifer needles really intrigues me, so I thought it was time for me to make something with them myself. I am visiting the central California coast at the moment and redwood trees abound, so they seemed like…
Pumpkin Coconut Almond Granola and Granola Bars
It seems that as soon as October is upon us, most of us go crazy for pumpkin everything. I am no exception to this rule, as I could probably eat pumpkin food year round! Seriously, pumpkin pie has always been my favorite, long before it was cool to like pumpkin. I do prefer to keep…
Skillet Peach and Blackberry Cobbler
It’s blackberry season! You know what that means, right? It’s cobbler time! I’m such a sucker for simple and rustic fruit based desserts. The fruit brings natural sweetness, so minimal sugar is needed, plus you get the natural health benefits and antioxidants from the berries. These blackberries were amazing! We went foraging for blackberries recently…
Wild Berry and Nectarine Galette with Goat Cheese and Fresh Thyme
You might have seen my recent post about foraging for salal berries. Well, after bringing home a bunch of these foraged berries, I really wanted to do something delicious with them. Salal berries are slightly sweet when fresh, but I knew that cooking intensifies and brings out their sweetness even more. I’ve watched my good…
Plum and Lemon Upside Down Cake with Lavender Whipped Cream
So I had a bowl of little yellow and red plums sitting on my counter for almost a week. I gleaned them from a tree down the street from my house, with the owners permission, and I could take as many as I wanted. They were not quite ripe when I picked them, so I…
