Homegrown Herbal Tea

[Phaedra]

The last harvest of 2023 homegrown herbs - Lemon Balm

 

[flowerbug]

What is the fake blueberry?

i think they are talking about these sorts of things (a vile frankenfood IMO):

Imitation Blueberry Nuggets - G116 - 17 oz. #2.5 can

Our imitation blueberry nuggets are a wonderful item to have in your long term food storage. These little nuggets provide the wonderful flavor of blueberries to your baked goods. Use these nuggets in your muffins, breads, cookies, pancakes, waffles, and in hot cereals. These can be thrown in...

rainydayfoods.com

note ingredients: "Ingredients: Sugar, corn syrup, corn cereal, modified food starch, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed and/or soybean), artificial flavor, red #40, green #3, blue #1."

p.s. they are disgusting.

 

[Dahlia]

What is the fake blueberry?

The "blueberries" were part of a boxed blueberry muffin mix! I think they make fake blueberries out of flour, food coloring, and sugar!

 

[flowerbug]

The "blueberries" were part of a boxed blueberry muffin mix! I think they make fake blueberries out of flour, food coloring, and sugar!

and would you willingly and knowingly ever eat those again? i had them once and could not even finish the muffin and i really hate hate hate wasting food of any kind.

 

[Dahlia]

and would you willingly and knowingly ever eat those again? i had them once and could not even finish the muffin and i really hate hate hate wasting food of any kind.

I would never eat them now that I'm older and wiser!

 

[Phaedra]

Sage grows very well recently, I guess they prefer cooler weather and some rain. I picked the young leaves on the top and would dry them later for tea. The lower parts (of all herbs I grow) would be also dried but used as the filling of my next herb pillows.

Not much catnip left - I will harvest them all soon. As they are perennials, I take them as a tiny investment for our cats' meal ingredients and the simple cat pillows I will sell in my shop.

 

[Alasgun]

We discovered (by accident) that Sage and Chocolate mint together
made great tea! possibly other mints in combination would be good too?

 

[Phaedra]

We discovered (by accident) that Sage and Chocolate mint together
made great tea! possibly other mints in combination would be good too?

Yes, I mixed Sage with other mints (and sometimes with Chamomiles) and it also tastes lovely.

 

[digitS']

I would really like to encourage everyone to experiment with our culinary herbs in the mint family, and tell us what they learn.

As I have shared before, heedless of the many mints that we have had in the past, several were deliberately eliminated. I was just not interested in spearmint/peppermint and unappreciative of lemon balm. This, despite/because of all the mints in our everyday lives and, with lemon balm – despite liking citrus flavor in drinks. And now, I put our dried spearmint in with the orange zest and licorice root, purchased .

The family of Lamiales is vast. It includes some plants that would be unsuitable for consumers. I have just learned of a poisonous one said to cause paralysis! A favorite culinary herb is related lemon verbena but so is digitalis. I won't be trying that one but there is just no reason to drift far afield with so many in the culinary column .

And, try fresh and dried. I would never have learned that catnip dried is acceptable to this olde dog .

Steve

 

[Phaedra]

And, try fresh and dried. I would never have learned that catnip dried is acceptable to this olde dog .

I tried both recently and decided to leave them to our cats.