Nettles tastes a little like spinach, only more flavorful and more healthful. They are loaded with essential minerals you won't find together outside a multivitamin bottle, and these include iodine, magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, silica and sulfur. Nettles also have more protein than most plants.

You can eat the leaves and then drink the water as tea, with or without sugar, hot or cold. If you are adventurous — or, you can collect entire plants to dry in your basement. The needles will eventually fall off, and you can save the dried leaves for tea all winter long.

Credit for the Great Identification photo goes to Cook's Illustrated Magazine.
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"Nature is the source of all true knowledge." – Leonardo da Vinci

Geometric analysis of a Dandelion by Giovanni - Florence, Italy

A friend gave me two huge bags of broccoli so I roasted it and made a salad of it with a vinaigrette, garlic, feta, pine nuts, olive oil, pomegranate and lemon juice. I’ll put the avocado slices on just before serving.

https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/lemon-garlic-roasted-broccoli-salad/

Old-Fashioned Homemade Cough Syrup (Instant Pot, Stove Top)

#Recipes

Ingredients:
2 cups pure water
8 fresh thyme
1/4 cup ground ginger finely chopped
1 cup raw honey preferably local 🍯
1 organic lemon juiced
1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper

Directions:
🍯 Put water, thyme, and chopped ginger into the Instant Pot.

🍯 Press the Saute button.

🍯 Simmer the herbs in water until reduced by half.

🍯 Allow to cool until the temperature is warm, not hot, steeping the herbs the entire time.

🍯 Strain.

🍯 Discard or compost the thyme and ginger.

🍯 Return the thyme-ginger tea to the Instant Pot.

🍯 Whisk in honey, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper, if using.

🍯 Transfer to an airtight jar or bottle.

🍯 Syrup will keep in a dark cupboard for 1 week. After that, it should be stored in the refrigerator.

🍯 Administer a tablespoon as often as necessary to soothe a sore throat and calm a cough.

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Notes:
Store up to one week at room temperature, or up to a month or more in the refrigerator.

Triple-Threat Antibiotic Roll-On

What You’ll Need:
◽️10 ml roll-on bottle
◽️Fractionated coconut oil (almond or jojoba can also be used)
◽️2 drops oregano essential oil
◽️5 drops tea tree essential oil
◽️2 drops thyme essential oil (linalool or thymol type)

Directions:
✔️Mix Essential Oils in roller bottle.

✔️Fill with carrier oil and gently swish around to mix.

✔️Apply on the bottoms of the feet and over abdomen 2x per day while battling a systemic infection.

Notes:
Do not use for more than 3 weeks at a time.

Discontinue use immediately upon any adverse reactions.

#DIY #NaturalAntiBiotic #EOs

How to use your Instant Pot to germinate seeds:
https://www.attainable-sustainable.net/seed-germination-instant-pot/

This an excellent article on Bay leaves! I use them everywhere!!!! I put them in my bags of Anasazi beans, my flour canister, my cooking, my pots of Ginger/Tumeric tea, etc. Now I will burn them too!
https://thelostherbs.com/what-happens-if-you-burn-bay-leaves/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=TLH&vgo_ee=9%2BmmgAva7U%2BC4B6L7mdDNvlMy%2BOWWuyaZunZiCXh6gI%3D
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In Dad's:

Leaf lettuce, carrot greens, broccoli micro greens and basil microgreens, celery, purple heirloom tomato avocado, carrot, turnip, pecans and walnuts, cranberries, black currants, blueberries

Steamed brussel sprouts, broccolini, celery, and turnip with a tiny bit of turmeric powder and black pepper

I think perhaps an errant buckwheat groats

And some chicken that was in the fridge

Olive oil, apple cider vinegar, fresh rosemary, and fresh squeezed lemon juice

And lemonade.

t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/2018

In mine:

Leaf lettuce, beet greens, carrot greens, radish greens, broccoli micro greens and basil microgreens, celery, purple heirloom tomato avocado, radish, carrot, turnip, pecans and walnuts, two hazelnuts, cranberries, black currants, blueberries, buckwheat groats, one black currant, one blueberry

Steamed brussel sprouts, broccolini, celery, and turnip with a tiny bit of turmeric powder and black pepper

Steamed beet, carrot, and lightly steamed beet greens

Olive oil, apple cider vinegar, fresh rosemary, and fresh squeezed lemon juice

t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/2020

t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/2023 -- ???

23 minutes grounded, silent food nourishment at the altar of the body.
One soft farm egg, chicken livers, cracked black pepper, and melissa officianalis (lemon balm) tea with half a fresh lemon squeezed.
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Blessings lightly steamed broccolini, beets, lemon, ginger root, hazelnuts, pecans, lemon, apple cider vinegar, cracked black pepper, and a tiny amount of chicken muscle & beef liver. Prayers for and abundance to all creature beings and vital energies. Family food nutrient success! • t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/2025

Green leaf lettuce, swiss chard, spinach, beet greens, steamed beets with a touch of cinnamon, pecans, walnuts, buckwheat groats, cranberries, turmeric, oregano, apple cider vinegar, cracked black pepper. (And a separate cup of very lightly infused tea made with milky oats -- thank you, @wildfarmacy!) Blessings digestion, blessings strength returning. • t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/2027