I love using fresh herbs in what I’m cooking but I had no idea how many ways I could use them for natural wellness in cold and flu season. Shannon Mayernik, an herbalist, educator, and plant medicine maker who co-owns a modern-day herbal apothecary in New Jersey, taught me so much when she joined us […]
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Some days call for pumpkin chai concentrate. You know, those fall days that you want to savor but, let’s face it, you’re busy. Skip the junky ingredients and make this easy from scratch recipe now so you have it tomorrow when you need it.
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Breakfast has always been tough for me. And once I learned how processed commercial flour is, I thought pancakes for a quick, easy breakfast were out. But no. Enter: Fresh milled pancakes made with buckwheat and einkorn. In other words, the holy grail of breakfasts. They’re quick and easy to make. They’re flavorful and fluffy.
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When I started using fresh milled flour over a decade ago, I made loaf after loaf of door stopper-style bread. This fresh milled honey oat sandwich bread was my first break through. Hallelujah–after so many failures, finally, I made a loaf my family would eat. And it was so soft and fluffy. I truly think
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What is fresh milled flour? Fresh milled flour is simply real flour. Using a home grain mill, wheat berries (the whole grain wheat kernel, essentially unmilled flour) are ground into flour and used as soon as possible. The reason using fresh milled flour quickly is important is because flour is actually a perishable food. Just
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DIY Dr pepper syrup: make soda at home When I first started making homemade sodas, my DIY coke recipe went semi-viral. But when I developed and shared my homemade Dr pepper recipe? Holy cow, it went bonkers. Who knew how badly the world needs homemade soda recipes! Although most of you love the Dr pepper
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Fresh milled sourdough sandwich bread The holy grail of bread baking? Fresh flour sourdough. For years after I made the switch to fresh milled flour, I assumed I just wasn’t going to make good sourdough bread again. I was cranking out beautiful commercial yeast loaves. But whenever I attempted sourdough bread with fresh flour, I
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If life is stressful, this hibiscus tea blend should be your new go-to. This Hibiscus Tea is easy to make yourself (or you can try this amazing blend). It’s a delicious combination of 4 herbs that all work together to help your body deal better with stress and anxiety, plus the actual act of preparing
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My biggest haters are over grain mills. When I started posting on Instagram, I never would have imagined that my biggest haters would be over the fact that they can’t afford a grain mill. And I get it. Things are tight right now. But when I invested in my grain mill, I knew it was
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I kind of hate bread machines. Even with fresh milled flour. As a newlywed, I was gifted a bread machine. Knowing very little about real food at the time, I didn’t see the value in homemade bread. As soon as I got fed up with moving the huge, clunky machine around my kitchen, I donated
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