Podcast 056: Herbs & the Holidays: Medicinal Virtues of Culinary Herbs

This week we continue our exploration of herbal holiday traditions with a quick chat about some of the ways herbs turn up in holiday foods. Whether it’s a nice herbed roast, a ginger-enhanced cranberry sauce, or a paleo mulling-spice cookie (yep, we’ve got a recipe for those!), herbs add more than flavor to your season – as if that weren’t enough!

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Herbs discussed include sage, pine, juniper, mint, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, orange peel, allspice, nutmeg, clove, & anise.

Mentioned in this podcast:

• This post about hawthorn includes Katja’s cranberry sauce recipe. It’s super simple!
• These Ginger Chamomile Cookies can be modified to be Mulling Spice cookies with a simple substitution for a mulling spice blend in place of the ginger & chamomile powders. Try it!
• The Holistic Herbalism Podcast, episode 24 – Taco Seasoning Herbs
• The Holistic Herbalism Podcast, episode 35 – Cinnamon, Vanilla, & Cacao
• The Holistic Herbalism Podcast, episode 48 – Pumpkin Spice: That’s Herbalism Too!

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