An Herbal Diary

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.

Big love to you!

On this first episode of An Herbal Diary, I share my vision and purpose for the podcast and tell you a bit about myself. I invite you to join me on this journey into the plant world.

Please SHARE this episode with someone who may also be fascinated by herbal medicine. Help me to spread my passion for kitchen medicine and make everyone’s home a place of herbal wisdom. 🌿✨

Mentions: David Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies

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 and send either to [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, SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW wherever you 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 as 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.

What makes a tree medicinal? The answer to this question depends on the medicine we are searching for. Especially in spring, trees can be medicine for our eyes. After the grayness of winter, glorious flowering trees like dogwood and magnolia are sweet visions. Aside from landscaping decoration, both dogwood and magnolia along with many other trees,have long been used for strong medicines derived from their bark.Tree bark has phytochemicals that make it bitter, astringent, and highly antimicrobial. Bark is a tree’s protective layer, helping it to survive through winter cold and other dangers like bacteria, fungi and troublesome insects. The same phytochemicals in tree bark offer much medicine to humans as well.

Join me in this episode for more on tree bark and the medicine of dogwood and magnolia trees. Sending you lovely spring thoughts and thank you for joining me!

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

Original music by Dylan Rice

Please send me your 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

Join me on Patreon

Connect with me on Instagram

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow or subscribe where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly share with your friends and family.

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 humans - two daughters and one son all now living their young adult lives - and one sweet Pomeranian named Maci.

Herbal teas are a lovely way to be creative and experience herbs on a daily basis. Brewing herbal teas can take on different forms and tastes, including juice-like creations when dried berries are used as the main ingredients. These berry teas are a wonderful way to gain nutrient benefits from herbs. In this episode I am sharing my current favorite method for brewing herbal tea that feels more like a juice. Thank you for joining me.

Tea “Juice” Decoction

1⁄4 cup dried elderberries

1⁄4 cup dried hawthorn berries

1⁄4 cup dried sea buckthorn berries

1⁄8 cup dried goji berries

1⁄8 cup dried rose hips

1 tablespoon hibiscus

1 tablespoon dried ginger

1 cinnamon stick

2 pieces turkey tail mushrooms

6 peppercorns

8-9 cups water

Combine herbs and water in 4 quart stock pot. Cover and bring to gentle boil on medium heat. Turn to lowest setting, simmer for 40 minutes. Remove from heat, continue to steep covered until cool. Strain into Mason jars and refrigerate.

Source for Dried Herbs and Berries:

Mountain Rose Herbs

Oshala Farm

Northwest Wild Foods

Favorite Herbal Podcasts:

HerbRally

Herbmentor Radio

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

Original music by Dylan Rice

Please send me your 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

Join me on Patreon

Connect with me on Instagram

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow or subscribe where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly share with your friends and family.

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 humans - two daughters and one son all now living their young adult lives - and one sweet Pomeranian named Maci.

Lovely red clover may be a weedy and grow wild, but it is not to be overlooked as a medicinal herb. This full monograph delves into all of its nuances from garden friend to delicious tea to profound remedy.

Mentions:

Mypronouns.org

Strictly Medicinal Seeds

David Winston’s Alterative Formula from Herbalist & Alchemist

Celebrated Herbalists:

David Winston

Michael Moore

David Hoffmann

Matthew Wood

Red Clover Fritter Batter Recipe:

1 Cup Flour

1 Tsp baking powder

2 Tbsp vanilla extract

1 Egg

1⁄4 Cup melted butter

3⁄4 Cup milk

** Please join me for my new monthly online group gathering, a kitchen medicine club, a place to grow confidence together!

Each month we will have a live discussion that will be hosted on Zoom.

With all of my heart I would love you to join me, click here to join on Patreon

Together we can transform our kitchens into a unique apothecary.**

---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

Join me on Patreon

Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

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.

---

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 and one son all now in college. 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.