Cooking from scratch with wholesome and nourishing foods.
Medicinal mushroom hot cocoa with red belted polypores nourishes, comforts and soothes with dark, earthy, and bittersweet flavors. This medicinal hot cocoa offers immunity and gastrointestinal health benefits. There are certain times of year when I began to crave deep…
A viscerally warming blend of turmeric & traditional spices makes this golden milk spiced chai a soothing, comforting latte style tea with healing benefits Ask a room full of herbalists what the first anti-inflammatory herb that comes to their mind…
If nostalgia, magic and wonder had a flavor, it would be like that of this Wild Rose Turkish Delight. Layers of rose flavored, candy confection. Can you be nostalgic for something that you have never experienced? A time, a place,…
Honor your sacred heart with this tulsi, rose, and hawthorn chai. This warming, relaxing blend of herbs and traditional chai spices will soothe and protect. Some days it’s just hard to be hopeful. Maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s the…
A beverage for a joyful heart! Spiced hawthorn and rose hip mead marries herbal medicine with fermented libation. A jolly cheers to you and yours! Fall has most certainly arrived. Heavy Pacific Northwest winds and rains have rendered most of…
Lacto-fermented hot sauce with nasturtiums, two ways! A spicy red batch with flowers & a milder green batch with leaves results in sauces with herbal flair. The gardening season is pretty much over now. Sure, there will be some cabbages,…
Set aside a little time now, and can up some apple pie filling for amazingly fast, future desserts. Recipe for a perfect pastry crust included! I think my husband resolved to make me his wife the first time I made…
Super cheesy and studded with green chiles, this cheddar chile bread is perfect complement to a roast chicken or Southwest inspired soup. Bread was a hard one for me, y’all. I mean, I REALLY struggled to make a good loaf…
Try this sweet recipe with the immunity enhancing elderberry for kids and adults alike. These elderberry lollipops are delicious and the perfect thing for a dry, hot throat, and hoarse cough. I am going to start this post by admitting…
Use the bounty of your tomato harvest to make some delicious slow cooker homemade ketchup that even the kiddos will love! Perhaps, your kids are like mine – and everything is better with ketchup. Perhaps it is just an unquestionable…
I am an herbalist, farmer, cook, and forager. I get my hands dirty and am not afraid to do things the "hard way". Sharing my Nitty Gritty Life with you! Read More
Devon
