A fresh peach pie is a pinnacle dessert for a delicious late-summer peach season treat! Real peaches offer flavor to this peach pie filling that is as nostalgic as it perfect. With a homemade pie crust and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, this is a peach time recipe you’ll make every year! During mid to…
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Plantain Salve for Itchy Bug Bites and Rashes
Plantain salve is an easy-to-make herbal remedy that works wonders to soothe a variety of skin ailments, particularly itchy skin. Plantain herb is easy to find, forage, and use in this simple and accessible salve recipe! About Plantain While often seen as a common weed, the plantain plant is actually an amazingly useful herb that…
Foraging Queen Anne’s Lace: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Queen Anne’s lace is a pretty flower you’ve likely seen growing in fields and along roadsides your whole life. Also known as wild carrot, this delicate-looking beauty is edible and medicinal. Queen Anne’s lace flower has rich folklore, and distinct identifying factors to go with it. Easy to find, important to identify properly, and with…
Homemade Sourdough Tortillas
Many years ago, when I first started making my own sourdough, I decided that I must put some sourdough starter in ALL the things. This was a good thing because sourdough only makes things better! When I first made the leap to make sourdough tortillas, my mind was blown! Sourdough Discard Recipe I had been…
Homemade Strawberry Jam: Low-Sugar or No Sugar
It’s strawberry season and the best time for homemade strawberry jam! This low-sugar or no-sugar strawberry jam with pectin is easy to make and keeps the delicious flavor of summer strawberries in your life all year long. There’s nothing quite like ripe strawberries, their flavor holds distinct lifelong summer memories for me. The best way…
Skillet Strawberry Cobbler
Skillet strawberry cobbler is the best way to use up this season’s abundance! Sometimes it seems that strawberries ripen all at once, and then have about a 4-hour window in which to eat them all at peak perfect flavor. I exaggerate, of course, but this strawberry cobbler recipe is here to help you use your…
Rhubarb Gin Sour Cocktail
A rhubarb gin cocktail is in order for a summertime happy hour! This pretty pink rhubarb drink combines the tart sweetness of the rhubarb with the citrus sourness of the lemon juice which pairs perfectly with botanical gin. If you love a good gin-sour recipe, this is the perfect rhubarb cocktail for you! It’s rhubarb…
Candied Rhubarb Ribbons: Dessert or Drink Garnish
This candied rhubarb tops the list for my favorite rhubarb dessert, make it and you’ll see why! Sweeten notoriously tart rhubarb in the most beautiful and delicious way to garnish any dessert or drink this season. Rhubarb candy ribbons look like it comes from a fairy tale, and taste just as magical! Rhubarb is a…
Rhubarb Syrup
Rhubarb syrup is a super simple way to use this season’s abundance! With only a few ingredients, this rhubarb recipe is a great method for cooking rhubarb without all of the tartness. Rhubarb simple syrup has the whimsical pink color of fresh rhubarb too! About Rhubarb Rhubarb is one of those vegetables that grow in…
Homemade Calendula Lip Balm
This homemade lip balm made with calendula oil is a wonderful way to soothe chapped and cracked lips while connecting to your inner kitchen herbalist self. Similar to calendula salve, this natural lip balm will restore moisture to your lips when you need it most. This is a super easy lip balm recipe! Calendula for…
