Recipes
FOR CARING FOR YOURSELF, LOVED ONES, AND for LIVING IN CONNECTION WITH THE NATURAL WORLD
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I want to share my recipes for inside and outside care with you plus some magic. They range from staple year round recipes to ones that honor seasonal botanicals.
My aim is for these recipes to be fun and an act of love, not overly laborious and daunting. They are steeped in a deep reverence for the natural world and I hope they resonate with you and you make them your own for years to come. Please feel to email me if you ever have questions or comments. I always say “follow your nose” so I hope you put your personal touch on these!
Emerald Sea Detox Bath
This dreamy green bath will balance your body, relieve tired muscles, and eliminate toxins. It’s nourishing sea kelp stimulates blood flow and draws out impurities while the antioxidant-rich spirulina fights free radicals, retains moisture, and creates a beautiful jade-green hue over the bath.
Nettle, Raspberry Leaf & Oatstraw Daily Vitamin Tea
This highly nutritive tea is great during pregnancy, postpartum and is a perfect everyday tea for everyone (my kids like it too!). The taste is green, slightly fruity and a little sweet — a delicious addition to your daily routine for an infusion of vitamins and minerals.
Essential Lotion
This simple lotion recipe is an endlessly useful essential remedy for soothing dry skin but also light enough to easily absorb into our faces. My top remedies for dry skin are to 1, drink more of the elixir of life, water and 2, don’t be shy to use natural lotion and oils generously and daily!
Elderberry Syrup & Elderbears
Berries from the Elder have been used for centuries in wellness preparations, dating back as far as 400 BC. This is a delicious double recipe for both elderberry syrup and Elderbear gummies that help fortify our immune system.
Milka’s Fir Tip Wellness Syrup
This syrup is a rendition of one that was made annually by my Baka (grandmother in Serbo-Croatian) Milka. Conifers send the bright green tips out in the spring as a sign of new growth, making these tips very high in Vitamin C and known to help ease respiratory ailments, coughs and colds.
Fresh & Dried Botanical Infused Oils
Infused botanical oils are a gentle but powerful way to care for and heal our bodies harnessing the magic of plants. Every step of the process is a beautiful practice: from harvesting plants, to infusing them by the moon cycle, to witnessing the alchemy of botanicals to make a new creation.