An Herbal Diary

I'm talking all about bitters and how we can put our taste buds in rehab with dandelion green pesto.

Dandelion Green Pesto Recipe: get the recipe HERE

(adapted from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking and Deb Soule's How to Move Like a Gardener)

2 1/2 cups fresh partially chopped dandelion greens

1/4 cup basil leaves

1/4 cup cilantro leaves

2-4 cloves garlic

2 tablespoons walnuts

2 tablespoons pine nuts

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup olive oil

⅓ cup Romano cheese, grated

4 tablespoons butter, softened to room temperature

Blend all together in food processor until smooth. Stir in cheese and butter by hand.

Sources for bitter formula tinctures:

Herbalist & Alchemist

Urban Moonshine

Herbal Revolution

Mentions:

Herbalist Training - David Winston's Center for Herbal Studies

Grubb Street articles

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review.

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Herbal actions put a name to a plant's primarily performance in our body. I'm organizing my herbal pantry into actions and talking in detail about alterative herbs. This category of herbal actions may be the support our bodies need for healthy metabolism.

Mentions:

Alterative Herbs

Eclectic Medicine

Jim McDonald, herbcraft.org

Calendula infusion: 2 tablespoons dried calendula flowers & 12 ounces hot water; infuse for 20 minutes; strain

Sources for dried calendula:

Rosemary's Garden

Starwest Botanicals

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review.

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Materia Medica translates to materials of medicine. Our material today is burdock. I'm also talking about how a plant's healing abilities reach beyond the physical into our heart and spirit.

You can find the full nettle profile HERE but here's a quick episode recap:

* emotional and spiritual qualities of burdock

* considerations for growing burdock for food and medicine

* energetics and actions

* using burdock in cooking

* herbal burdock preparations

* specific indications for burdock as medicines

Mentions:

Sajah Popham The School of Evolutionary Herbalism

Stephen Harrod Buhner The Institute of Gaian Studies

Matthew Wood's Institute of Herbalism

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review.

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Digestion is foundational to our health and well-being. Today we focus on herbal roots that provide inulin. This prebiotic is vital to keeping the friendly microbes in our body happy as well as our digestion. And then I'm back in the kitchen to make super easy electuaries with powdered roots. 🍠🍯

Herbal Root Prebiotic Electuaries

1 1/2 parts (1 1/2 tsp) dried burdock root powder

1 part (1 tsp) dried dandelion root powder

1 1/2 parts (1 1/2 tsp) dried chicory root, powder

1 1/2 parts (1 1/2 tsp) dried marshmallow root powder

1 part (1 tsp) cacao powder

1/8 part (1/8 tsp) dried ginger powder

2 1/2 parts (2 1/2 tsp) organic maple syrup (approximately)

Grind herbs in a spice grinder to a fine powder. Mix all ingredients together, adding the maple syrup gradually to form a thick paste. With hands roll into 1/4 inch round, small balls.

Source for dried herbs

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback 👏❤️ Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ❤️

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better 🙏

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Savory herbal decoctions second as broth, a vegetarian counterpart to bone broth. In contrast this herbal broth makes a lighter spring summer version. This is my spring cleanse, metabolic tonic with added immune strengthening capability. And so simple to make. 🍵 💚

Burdock Root Photos

Springtime Tonic Burdock Root Broth

Herbs: 1 part = 1/2 cup

3/4 cup dried burdock root, Arctium lappa (1 1/2 parts)

1/2 cup dried dandelion leaf, Taraxacum officinale (1 part)

1/2 cup dried red clover, Trifolium pratense (1 part)

3 jujube dates, Zizyphus jujuba, chopped

Sea Vegetable:

2 tablespoon dried kombu flakes, Saccharina latissma

Fungi:

1/2 cup dried shiitake mushrooms, Lentinula edodes (1 part)

1/2 cup dried maitake mushrooms, Grifola frondosa (1part)

2 quarts (8 cups) water

Combine all ingredients in a large stock pot. Pour in water. Bring to gentle simmer over medium high heat. Cover with lid and turn to lowest heat setting. Simmer for 45 minutes to one hour. Turn off heat and let stand covered for 45 minutes. Strain. then store either in a glass jar or freeze for later use.

Ingredient Sources:

Herbs

Sea Vegetables

Mushrooms

Jujube Dates

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback 👏❤️ Send me a message, voice memo or write an email, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ❤️

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better 🙏

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Materia Medica is a fancy way of telling a plant's story and the herbal monograph documents it in an organized way. In this episode I share my own monograph on nettle. 🌿📜

You can find the full nettle profile HERE but here's a quick episode recap:

* plant personalities and their stories

* considerations for growing nettle

* where to buy

* using fresh nettle in cooking

* herbal nettle preparations

* specific indications for nettle - leaf | root | seed

Mentions:

Matthew Wood's Books

Susan Weed | Wise Woman Way

7song | Northeast School of Botanical Medicine

Sources for Nettle Teas and Tinctures:

Avena Botanicals

Local Herb Growers

Mountain Rose Herbs

Herbalist & Alchemist

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback 👏❤️ Send me a message, record a voice memo on your cell phone or write an email and send either, my email is [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ❤️

ps… please be kind & please excuse my amateur podcasting skills... this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better 🙏

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Welcome to my backyard.. I'm talking nature awareness, plant people, growing and gathering nettle. ☀️

Pardon the contractor noise.

Nettle Gathering Outfit: gardening gloves, long sleeves, long pants

Favorite Garden Gloves 🧤

Lessons and Steps:

• Select planting area carefully
• Plant seeds sparingly
• Wear gloves when touching fresh nettles
• Offer gratitude and gift prior to picking nettle, or any plant
• Cut top 4-5 leaves with small pruners
• Collect fresh nettles in a sturdy pot or bag
• Steam or dry quickly after gathering

Sources to buy nettle

Companion Plants

Strictly Medicinal Seeds

Seeds from Mountain Rose Herbs

Book review:📗

Deb Soule's How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants

Avena Botanicals

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback 👏❤️ Send me a message, record a voice memo on your cell phone or write an email and send either, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ❤️

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better 🙏

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Nettle will never be the new kale unless we negotiate its sting. We delve deep into the why of nettle sting, how it feels, then diffuse it by turning fresh to dried.

Recipe:

Nette-infused hot cocoa 🍃☕️

For one cup:

1 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder (non-alkalinized, organic)

1 Tablespoon honey (raw, local)

8 ounces nettle tea (2 tsp to 8 ounce water)

1 ounce whole coconut milk

Prepare nettle tea. Combine with all other ingredients in saucepan and heat over low heat, whisking together until warm. Do not overheat.

For one quart:

1/3 cup cocoa

1/3 cup honey

32 ounces nettle tea (2 1/2 tablespoons to 32 ounces water)

1/2 cup whole coconut milk

Mentions:

Phyllis D. Light, Appalachian Center for Natural Health

Bundling Herbs for Drying

Review of Food Dehydrator

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback 👏❤️ Send me a message, record a voice memo on your cell phone or write an email and send either, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ❤️

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better 🙏

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Wondering how to use stinging nettles without suffering a sting? In today's kitchen medicine making venture we embrace dried nettles - sting deactivated - infusing them into vinegar. The result: a vitamin and mineral packed ingredient for your herbal pantry. 🍾

Nettle Leaf (Urtica dioica)

Recipe for nettle-infused vinegar

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup dried nettle leaf, powdered if possible

* 1 cup apple cider vinegar or 1 cup Balsamic vinegar (organic preferred)

* 12 ounce jar with plastic lid or metal lid with double piece of wax paper

Directions:

1. Powder dried nettle leaf in a spice or coffee grinder, pulse for a few seconds. (If no spice grinder is available, crumble leaves as much as you can)
2. Add nettles to a clean glass jar, pour in vinegar.
3. Secure lid and label with ingredients and dates that you made it and date it will be ready to strain.
4. Store in cool place out of direct sunlight.
5. Infuse for four weeks, shaking every few days.
6. Stain with small hand strainer lined with cheesecloth. Squeeze out as much vinegar as possible. Make a tea or compost used nettles.

Nutrient benefits of Nettle Leaf 🌿

Calcium | Magnesium | Iron | Silicon

Potassium | Fiber | Protein

Vitamin A | Vitamin C | Vitamin K

Chlorophyll | Flavonoids | Carotenoids

Mentions:

David Hoffman - medical herbalist, author

Zack Woods Herb Farm

Organoleptic Evaluation of Herbs: How to Evaluate the Quality of Dried Herbs in 3 Simple Steps

Sources for dried nettle leaf

Rosemary's Garden

Mountain Rose Herbs

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback 👏❤️ Send me a message, you can record a voice memo on your cell phone or write an email and send either, my email [email protected]

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ❤️

ps… please be kind please excuse my amateur podcasting skills this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better 🙏

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.

Materia Medica is a fancy way of telling a plant's story and the herbal monograph documents it in an organized way. In this episode I share my own monograph on roses. 🌹📜

You can find the full rose profile HERE

Quick episode recap:

* Materia Medica and herbal monograph introduction

* considerations for growing roses for medicine

* where to buy

* energetics: color, taste, smell, texture, hot/cold; dry/moist

* edible roses

* herbal rose preparations

* specific indications for roses as medicines

Suggested Sources:

dried rose petals

dried rose hips

Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.

Original music by Dylan Rice

---

CONNECT WITH DINA

---

Please send your comments, requests, or feedback 👏❤️ Send me a message, you can record a voice memo on your cell phone or write an email and send either, my email is [email protected].

I look forward to hearing from you!

To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com

Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram:

If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review. ❤️

ps… please excuse my podcasting skills - this is new for me and i promise to keep getting better 🙏

---

ABOUT DINA

---

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.