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This recipe is my gift to you - a reminder how eas

This recipe is my gift to you - a reminder how easy and quick it is to delight yourself as we head into what feels like summer.

A not too sweet, not too tart herbaceous (sparkling or not) treat.

Herbal Lemonade (I'm choosing lavender today)

In a mason jar combine 1/2 cup sugar, zest of 1 lemon and a little hand full of herb leaves or petals (chopped ripped whatever).

Shake it vigorously in the mason jar. This extracts all the flavor from Ther herbs and zest and pulverizes it into the sugar created one collect multifunctional flavor. (Versus compartmentalized flavors that don't mix)

Add 1 - 1 1/2 cups of really hot or boiling water (I have boiling water in demand (awesome thing))

Swirl it around to melt the pulverized sugar into the water creating a syrup. Add a few ice cubes once the sugar is melted. To cool it down.

Juice two lemons into the mix and shake it up again.

In whatever glass you're using - filled with ice- pour the mix half full. Add regular or speaking water.

Makes 4/5 glasses of lemonade!

Rib Eye and Mint Steak Sauce

Rib Eye and Mint Steak Sauce

My #HerbalRoots version of a steak sauce ..... Fr

My #HerbalRoots version of a steak sauce .....

Fresh mint, green garlic, whole lemon, @frankiesspuntino #oliveoil and my Minty Pea Spring Salt... (which is also on my steak with a splash of white balsamic olive oil and white pepper.

Lemony, herbal chicken soup with fennel, white bea

Lemony, herbal chicken soup with fennel, white beans and rice.

Used leftover white bean and fennel salad and rice along with random things in my fridge like an ear of corn, peppers, carrots a chicken breast and of course loads of garden herbs, kale and chard.

Sage, rosemary, savory, lemon thyme, parsley, chives, oregano, evening primrose

Those strawberries from the other day and some ga

Those strawberries from the other day and some garden rhubarb turned into an idea inspired - like all my ideas- by a multitude of experiences and places and flavors from around the globe - a custard I ate at @zahavrestaurant a strawberry granola I used to make for a class at my Brooklyn cooking school, a cookbook I'm starting to percolate about and my love of savory granola. Herbs are hurting forth like crazy so I wanted to use some of the delicate sweet and spicy ones in a dessert.

This is a sweet and salty Strawberry Rhubarb Lavender Herb Almond Granola.

I first make an herbal sugar (which I'm obsessed with) grinding the herbs into the sugar so it's pulverized together. I added kamot white pepper and mahlab (seeds of a specific cherry - tastes like cherrry, vanilla almond and rose petals) - the herbs I used were Holy basil, Veronica, lavender wormwood, cinnamon basil, purple basil and anise hyssop.

I made a strawberry rhubard jam with the sugar and dried strawberries . I used some of the jam mixed with butter and maple syrup andnpoured it over the oats and flour and of course my spring 2024 Rhubarb Anise Hyssop Strawberry Baking Salt.

It's so delicious taste like strawberry and vanilla and is crunchy with a sweet and salty edge.

I also made (not pictured) vanilla herbal custard using the same herbal sugar. I'm going to make a dessert with the custard, some jam and some granola on top.

BlackBerry Sage Margarita with @crespoorganic man

BlackBerry Sage Margarita with @crespoorganic mango pit margarita mixer - link to my #UnderThrMangoTree mango blog and the Modern Margarita story in my story.

Herbal Radish Butter Salt Microscopic shaved radi

Herbal Radish Butter Salt
Microscopic shaved radishes dried into the herb salt- this is the bread and butter salt of your dreams!

If you are lucky enough to have a jasmine plant, i

If you are lucky enough to have a jasmine plant, it’s probably blooming right now. I had many in California and am reminiscing tonight about a food scrub I made with the flowers. I’m going to make a new MO version of a foot scrub.

JASMINE SUGAR SCRUB
Makes 1 cup

You can store this scrub in a jar for a few weeks. Simply wet your hands and/or feet and then scrub in about 1 tablespoon of scrub into each hand or foot, one at a time making sure you scrub gently but thoroughly and get every crack and crevice. Keep the scrub on your hands for about two minutes before rinsing off with warm water. Gently dry your hands and smother them with a thick lotion or body butter. I like to put a hot cloth over my hands while I wait the 2 minutes before I rinse off the scrub.

I had lots of fresh, blooming Jasmine on hand but I added some fresh lavender leaves and marshmallow mint to give it a fresher and earthier feel.

The scrub will keep for a few weeks or more in jar.

Ingredients

1 cup turbinado sugar
½ cup finely chopped jasmine flowers (or any fresh herbs and flowers)
¼ cup olive oil
A few drops of essential oil or about 1 teaspoon of a scented body oil

Directions

Mix together the sugar and herbs. Add the oils and mix together, making sure all the oil blends into the sugar until a coarse, sugary paste forms.

All that’s left to do is scrub your feet with the paste!

Herbaceous Fresh Tuna Pasta Puntanesca Puntanesca

Herbaceous Fresh Tuna Pasta Puntanesca

Puntanesca is for the days you think you have nothing to cook and realize you actually do.

Words can't explain how happy my #lemonverbena pla

Words can't explain how happy my #lemonverbena plant makes me- I'm cutting a few leaves for a cocktail because I just can't contain myself

Comfortably numb captures my mood this mango seaso

Comfortably numb captures my mood this mango season, my Green Garlic Parsley Salt captures my delight - especially atop this comfortably spring lemony chicken and artichoke herb pasta dish.

Today's breakfast for this stressed mango champion.

The multiflora roses ( baby rose/climbing rose)

The multiflora roses ( baby rose/climbing rose)

I'm going to dry them out and make raspberry rose pepper salt ..... at least that's the plan for now. I was inspired by a #cocktail made using the roses, fermented white peppercorns, raspberries and wormwood and some vodka. (See @picoypero for those shenanigans)

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