A Cookbook and Resource Book All In One...

After @riverflows prompt to use the #FoodasMedicine tag (supported by @NaturalMedicine) plus her giving a hint that our favorite cookbooks could qualify for the Natural Medicine Book Challenge - Details found here, that was enough for me to pull out my cookbook I felt was perfect for this challenge -

Healing Herbs Cookbook

Back Cover Healing Herbs Cookbook

This was another book I got when I attended the International Herb Conference, I wrote about the other books I got there in my previous entry for the Natural Medicine Book Challenge at https://steemit.com/naturalmedicine/@porters/the-one-book-i-will-not-let-leave-my-house .

While at the conference I attended a fabulous workshop with Pat Crocker on cooking with medicinal herbs. She is the woman who introduced me to making pestos from all different herbs instead of your standard basil pesto. In fact she includes numerous pesto recipes in her book including one using calendula, one using coriander, a lemon one, spinach one and one using roasted garlic and red pepper! In the workshop she did up a pesto which included about five different herbs - basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley and cilantro. I loved it and I continue to use those combinations to this day! She really boosted my enthusiasm for cooking with all different herbs and I so happy she had copies of her book at the Herb Conference so I got a copy which she so kindly autographed wishing me, Eat Well - Be Well!

My idea when I bought this book was to each day choose one of the many herbs that I was growing in the garden and try out a new recipe from the Healing Herbs Cookbook using that herb. It is easy to find recipes for each herb, as her book has a herb specific recipe index. I could also learn the beneficial qualities of that herb for she includes the medicinal properties of the different herbs too! And that's not all - she also shares a wealth of knowledge on preserving and cooking with herbs and includes some awesome tips!

Another special feature - the recipes are divided as per different seasons as you can see in a sample page from her book below:

Sample Recipe Pages From Healing Herb Cookbook

At the front of the book she put in herb profiles which list

• Description
• Flavor
• Parts Used
• How to Grow
• Healing Properties including actions, uses, phytochemistry
• Availability
• How to use in cooking
• Folklore

What follows this is a section on Cooking with Medicinal Herbs which includes:

• The medicinal effect of herbs in cooking
• Preserving herbs for cooking or medicinal use
• How to dry herbs
• Medicinal teas
• Juices
• Tinctures
• Syrups
• Crystallized roots
• Vinegars
• Oil
• Soups
• Seasoning
• Wines
• Healing Cooking
• Legumes
• Whole and ancient grains
• Soy foods
• Sprouts
• Nuts and seeds

This book contains a wealth of information and some fabulous vegetarian recipes - 115 of them! I have got so much out of it and I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in healthy eating!

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