Back to Basics

Back to Basics

Discover how our common weeds are power packed full of nutritional and medicinal healing. Learn how to match the herb with the dish; which herbs to use in cooking. Learn how to make medicinal poultices and herbal infusions. Have fun making natural and alternative health, beauty and body products. Learn how to make mascarpone, sour cream, and ricotta. Have fun with these home recipes; you'll discover a new way to wellbeing. Please note: This EBook publication does not have pictures within its contents due to the long running script. For full picture format go to print on demand. I love to cook with natural ingredients that are grown in abundance around Mother Earth, together with our very own herbs and weeds. Herbs are a natural flavoursome ingredient, which grow in pots or can be purchased dry. I implore you all to grow your own herbs; there is nothing nicer than adding them to your salads and stocks to give them their own natural character, rather than some salt-infused flavour from the supermarket. If you have a larger garden leave some plants to go to seed. Either gather and save the seeds or just let them lie where they fall; they'll germinate next spring. I have incorporated a list of culinary herbs to help guide you in your herb use. I have also added a list of my favourite weeds; these probably grow in abundance in your garden, too. We call these plants weeds but do remember they reproduce in abundance and grow pest-free year in and year out. I implore you to think about it: the weeds you are getting rid of may very well have more minerals and vitamins than green vegetables bought at a grocer. My list contains a few of my favourite weeds, for consumption and for medicinal use.