Canning Granny: Herbal Medicine Part 2: Bee Balm and Bee Stings. During the recent herbal medicine workshop I attended, the first herb the instructor discussed was Bee Balm. Monarda Didyma (red flowering) and Monarda Fistulosa (lavender flowering) bee balm, or wild bergamot, she said, is an invaluable addition to a medicinal herb garden. She began her talk holding her single sheet of typed notes at arm's length, she had forgotten her reading glasses... a member of the class loaned her a pair and she laughingly remarked, "Oh, I DID write this in English!
" Bee balm is excellent for treating systemic candida (yeast infections, thrush, impetigo, mouth ulcers, sore throat, diaper rash) and is also good for quickly treating burns (by adding saliva and using as a compress on the burned area). To make a tincture of bee balm, she recommended using the top third of the plant and to tincture it in brandy rather than vodka or EverClear... why? Bee balm, of course, makes me think of bees... which takes me down another branch of my memory lanes... 27 Amazing Charts That Will Turn You Into A Baking Whiz. Quick and Easy Snowy Chocolate Pinecones Recipe. Many years ago, while taking my nieces on a little nature walk, I remember watching as my youngest niece picked up a pinecone and tried to eat it. I can only imagine how prickly the scales were on her tiny tongue! Here’s an idea for a pinecone snack that’s sure to make curious tastebuds happy. Made with dry cereal and a peanut butter mixture, it’s part-healthy, part-sweet, and 100% fun.
It’s a great edible craft for the kids to make this winter when the snow arrives and cabin fever sets in. No baking required—just mix and assemble. And while they’re a clever snack for kids, these chocolate pinecones also look very chic and elegant at a winter wedding reception or other snow-themed event. Mother Nature never tasted so sweet. What You Need How-To Step 1 Mix the peanut butter, Nutella, butter, and powdered sugar in a bowl. Step 2 Take a pretzel stick and mold some of the peanut butter mixture around it, forming a slight cone shape. So now for the big question…. Funfetti Cake Cheese Ball - Whats Cooking Love? Raw Brownies. Handy Kitchen Printables To Download: {Free. How to Sculpt Sugar Flowers. Girls. We’re about to get our sculpt on. Yeah, I said it. Because the amazingly talented Emily of Lael Cakes is sharing tips from her latest Sugar Sculpting Workshop complete with a totally doable Sugar Dogwood Flower tutorials. And pretty pictures from Lauren Volo.
AND a recipe for sugar paste (or you can just cheat and buy it like I’m going to). Water, Pliers, Brown Floral Wire, Pink & Green Sugar Paste (recipe below) 1) Roll green sugar paste into a pea shaped ball. 2) Bend brown floral wire into a small hook. 3) Dip end of the wire into water. 4) Cut a dogwood flower out of thinly rolled pink sugar paste. 5) Dip end of wire in water and poke through the middle of the flower until the center is flush with the flower. 6) Place flower in styrofoam upside down, letting it dry for at least 48 hours. 7) Brush edges of flower and center with darker pink and green hues to create depth. 8) Accent on a dessert or give to your sweetie!
Combine sugar and gum tragacanth in a large mixer bowl. Plays With Fire. My Kitchen Escapades: Pork Carnitas. The Best Spinach Artichoke Dip Ever. I made this last week. Boy, was it ever good. I love spinach artichoke dip. Call me Ms. 1994, okay? But I can’t help it. Every time I make spinach artichoke dip, it’s different.
But this one was definitely the best. No, really. I didn’t take a Cast of Characters photo because I really didn’t know I was going to make this until I started making it. Canned artichokes Baby spinach Butter Garlic Flour Milk Salt & pepper Cream cheese Crumbled feta Grated Parmesan Grated Pepper Jack Cayenne Pita wedges, tortilla chips, or crackers Drain the artichokes, then rinse them under cool water and set them aside for approximately 254 seconds. Slice up three or four cloves of garlic… Then mince it… Then throw the garlic into the skillet with the butter.
You know, I never thought of this. I’m glad we had this talk. Crank up the heat to medium-high and t throw a bag of spinach into the skillet with the butter and garlic. Sprinkle in a little salt and pepper… Next, throw in the artichoke hearts! Okay! And now. Lizz Winstead: The Key 3. Lizz Winstead is the creator of The Daily Show and the author of Lizz Free or Die. In this installment of The Key 3, she shares with Lynne Rossetto Kasper the stories behind three of her favorite recipes: a fettuccine from Mario Batali, rosemary and garlic lamb chops, and spritz cookies from The American Swedish Institute.
Here are Lizz's keys, as told to Lynne: 1. Fettuccine with Lemon, Hot Peppers and Pecorino Romano I usually chop my onions and my jalapenos first and do my lemons last. That way, the onion and jalapeno smell on my hands gets taken out by the lemon. The only thing that's a bummer with this dish is you have to have a lot of patience. You can adjust it to your heat liking. When you're making a lot of this, you can double and triple the recipe. I always usually use a dry fettuccine. 2. Growing up, I never had lamb, because it was expensive and we had five kids in the family.
It's 1 to 2 ounces of meat per rib, and you want to serve probably three ribs per person. 3. Frozen Mocha Cake with Chocolate Ganache Glaze. Wayne Schmidt's Best Tasting Cake Page. Wayne Schmidt's Best Tasting Cake Page How to make the best tasting cakes from mixes. Introduction: For years I'd been dressing up box cake mixes by using milk and soft margarine instead of water and oil to create cakes that tasted richer and had better texture. Then one day I spotted Anne Byrn's book The Cake Mix Doctor and realized the idea was older than I'd imagined. Reading this fascinating book opened my eyes to the fact that while what I'd been doing would indeed help box mixes taste better, I'd been short sighted in realizing all the other ways boxed mixes could be improved.
With the intent of creating cakes that were so good that they reduced eaters to masses of quivering gastronomic ecstasy, I embarked on a series of experiments that subjected Mrs. Why start with cake mixes? In other words: they're idiot proof. Many bakers fault boxed mixes for have poor flavor. Disclaimer: Many times I recommend specific brands and varieties of cake mixes or frostings. Methodology: Vanilla Cake: Chocolate Almond Quinoa Cake | The Daring Gourmet. Chocolate Almond Quinoa Cake. No flour. 100% gluten free. And quite possibly THE best chocolate cake you’ve ever had! Trust me on this. “Nuh-uh” you say. Take another look, a little closer up. No flour.
Have you ever seen anything quite so moist and delectable? This recipe comes by way of request from Elizabeth Ray (Make a Request!). Unlike my Honey Olive Quinoa Cake which is moist but hearty and “cake-like”, the description of this cake brought to mind a very different image. In order to achieve the smooth texture and moistness I was after, I knew the quinoa would need to be pureed. While Elizabeth’s request didn’t include almond, I love the combination of chocolate and almonds. I was absolutely floored by the end result. And yes, I think even Goldilocks would approve.
Todd loves this cake. Todd sampling. Our precious baby Emily loves this cake, too! I tried offering our son, Liam, some cake. You learn not to take anything food-related personally – not with a 3 year old. Here’s how: Notes. Easy Kale Miso and Barley Soup | power hungry. Some soups genuinely do inspire fidelity akin to love, and this is one of them. In the doldrums of winter, when I mull over the matter of what soup to cook up to provide comfort all weekend long, I decide with remarkable frequency to make this one.
Despite the short list of ingredients, it has a distinct heartiness thanks in part to the mushrooms and kale, but mostly from the barley. Oh barley. It’s such a great ingredient–plump, chewy grains and endless versatility–but it’s definitely the sensible, sturdy shoes in the world of fashionable grains. Quick-cooking barley cooks in a measly 10 to 12 minutes. I should mention where to find barley in your supermarket. Barley. Fast & Hearty Kale, Barley and Miso Soup In a large saucepan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Storage Tip Store the cooled soup in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months. Candy Corn Martini with Pop Rocks rim. Apple. 18 Microwave Snacks You Can Cook In A Mug.
Champion-juicer-manual.pdf. TED aligns with Monsanto, halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing. (NaturalNews) Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead. Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can help prevent behavioral disorders in children.
All these areas of discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage. This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012. Click here to view the letter. In that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in "pseudoscience. " Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are spreading "health hoaxes. " The letter also advises TEDx organizers to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics. The TED organization, incredibly, believes that food cannot be medicine and does not contain medicine. Champion-juicer-manual. Sticky Toffee Pudding with Toffee Sauce Recipe | Cooking | How To | Martha Stewart Recipes. Food That Looks Like Other Things - 50+ Photos! 586 Flares Google+ 183 Twitter 17 Facebook 85 Reddit 0 StumbleUpon 0 Pin It Share 301 301 LinkedIn 0 inShare0 586 Flares × Meat and Potatoes Cake When I was a kid I used to love it when I got food that looks like other things.
Heck, I STILL love it when my food looks like something else… usually. Of course, there are times when playing with your food can get a little twisted. Like the meat skull down below. (Select any image below to see a bigger version.) Meat Skull Snake Pizza Deviled Eyeballs Darth Carrot Cat Litter Brownie Bert and Ernie Fruit Candy Sushi Beer Cake Spagetti Hotdog Necklace Fetus Cookie Head on a Cake Pop Bread Bunny Happy Snacks Sperm Cupcakes Hamburger Cupcakes Hamburger Cake Octopus Hotdogs Pinyata Cookies Brief Jerky Kermit the Fruit Baby Cake Cake in an Egg Stripper Peeps Banana Sausage Bacon cookie Heart Shaped Egg Unicorn Poop Cookie Lilo and Stitch Lunch Skull Avocado Alphabet Jello Sesame Street Veggie Trays Bacon Roses Animal Pancakes Cake Sandwich Radish Mice Pregnant Woman Cake Pizza Cake.
The Hippie Dippie Foodie. Fresh Strawberries with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Dip Recipe. Pasta with garlicky broccoli rabe. In my humble opinion, there’s cooking and there’s cooking. (I know, I’ll just give you a minute for the staggering profundity of that sentence to kick in.) What I mean is, it’s one thing to turn banana bread into a crepe, that crepe into a cake, that cake into a vehicle for walnut butterscotch, drooling, diet-postponing, and seconds, and it’s an entirely other thing to find yourself at the playground at 5:15 p.m. and realize a) you don’t actually have anything in the fridge that you can turn into dinner, b) you, in fact, barely feel like cooking, in fact, your interest in cooking is only a single degree stronger than your desire to order in, so this better be easy, and c) the adjacent farmers market which you have heard from others boasts ramps and asparagus and spinach and other new!
Spring! Delights! In fact, at the tail end of the day, boasts few things aside from a straggler of a single bundle of broccoli rabe. Or, I didn’t before last Wednesday afternoon. Guaranteed Crispy Sweet Potato Fries & Sriracha Mayo Dip. Right here, right now I am going to teach you how to make crispy sweet potato fries. But first … Let’s get one thing straight. A sweet potato french fry is not a real french fry. I like them, I’ll eat them … but they’re not a real french fry. They are french fry substitutes to be eaten when a real french fry can’t be found. Yes, I know. But you loveeeeeeeee sweet potato french fries. I have been eating, making and lusting after french fries for as long as I can remember.
Best way to eat a french fry? But … if you’re on some sort of stupid meal plan, or you’re all out of regular potatoes, or you just feel like having something a little different, why wouldn’t you cook up some Sweet Potato French Fries? Because they’re soggy messes. I’ve oven baked them, par boiled them and deep fried them and they don’t get crispy. Finally, I’ve figured out how to make crispy sweet potato fries and the best part is you can do them in the deep fryer or the oven! Here’s what you need to do … See? Chateau_ATK. Chocolate Turtle Cookies. I hope you’ve saved room for one last cookie recipe, because these were my favorites of the season! When Steph, the social media manager from America’s Test Kitchen, sent me a copy of I had a hard time deciding which cookies to make.
I asked Joseph if he could help me narrow down the options and when I opened the cover he saw these chocolate turtle cookies and said, “Those. Make those.” I told him he couldn’t take the easy way out; he had to look at all 64 recipes and tell me which one he wanted. But even after going through the entire special issue, he stuck with his original answer: the chocolate turtle cookies. And frankly, it’s just further proof that I picked out the perfect guy because he was so right. I know, it’s a new year, and eating healthier is on nearly everyone’s list of resolutions.
Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened 2/3 cup sugar 1 large egg, separated, plus 1 egg white 2 tablespoons milk. Peanut Butter Caramel Twix Bars. Peanut Butter Caramel Twix Bars I’ve been wanting to make three different bars for awhile, but they were all so similar, and I couldn’t decide which one to make. So I rolled them into one.
Nothing beats a layered combination bar. Original Twix are a shortbread base, caramel middle, chocolate coating. Peanut Butter Twix are a shortbread base, peanut butter middle, chocolate coating. Millionaire’s Shortbread Bars are a shortbread base, caramel middle, and chocolate topping, similar to Original Twix. Tagalongs Girl Scout Cookies are a shortbread base, peanut butter middle, and chocolate topping, similar to Peanut Butter Twix. Trying to choose between peanut butter and caramel, and which to keep and which to skip, is like trying to choose a favorite child.
My bars are a shortbread base, peanut butter layer, salted caramel layer, and chocolate topping. The nice thing about the bars is that they’re almost no-bake, with only about 12 minutes of bake time for the crust. My husband remarked, “Wow. Thai-Style Stir Fry ~ MoRecipes. This is definitely a keeper! Straight from the October 2012 Cook's Illustrated, it's another America's Test Kitchen winner. Chicken, eggs, broccoli, and rice noodles tossed with the most flavorful sauce, you really can't go wrong.
The key in this recipe is LEAVE IT ALONE. When I say without stirring or stirring once , I mean it. Ingredients: Chile Vinegar: 1/3 cup white vinegar 1 Serrano chile, stemmed and sliced into thin rings Stir Fry: 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, trimmed and cut against grain into 1/4 inch thick slices 1 tsp. baking soda 8 oz. (1/4" wide) rice noodles (ATK recommends A taste of Thai Rice Noodles, straight cut) 1/4 c. vegetable oil 1/4 c. oyster sauce 1 Tbsp plus 2 tsp soy sauce 2 Tbsp packed dark brown sugar 1 Tbsp white vinegar 1 tsp molasses 1 tsp fish sauce 3 garlic cloves, sliced thin 3 large eggs, lightly beaten 10 ounces broccoli or broccolini, florets cut into 1" pieces Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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