Wow! Who would have known that, I know many herbal benefits of other herbs or food, but I have never thought about bay leaf benefits and I thought it’s just to flavor food… oh my a little leaf for all needs 
thanks for sharing this!! 
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My thoughts too, I grew up knowing to use for cooking, never knew the added benefits at all. 
When I shared, my classmate 
back home, says, she’s been drinking the tea. 
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Everyday is a learning day I think back then the knowledge wasn’t either known or not that spread, as there are new methods to research, we will learn more.
Ever heard of Holy Basil? I have a huge stash I got from Organic India.
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I absolutely love seeing this, here.
I use different herbs and what some consider weeds (dandelion, nettles and so on) in my cooking and as medicine but there are so much I still don’t know or even think about.
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I picked on Saturday dandelion blooms and made a syrup, I probably used too much water to infuse the blooms, but it still turned out ok, just expected more flavor. Nettles too, those are now drying for tea.
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I made yesterday a marble cake. You can substitute butter milk with milk, I used 3/4 cup sugar and you can mix a bit with stevia or birch sugar. I used the organic cacao powder I got at Walmart.
I used also r a p eseed oil (sunflower oil works too) instead of butter. There are many various recipes online but this one is the closest I made and is about the Swiss recipe I learnt at school. I did use the loaf baking pan but the round one is okay as well. - I left it too long in the oven cos I forgot to set the timer… it turned out a tiny bit dry, so watch out!
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Oh dandelion honey ! I loved it when i was kid ! made of yellow flowers I also liked Dandelion Jelly ! The steam to be precise the milk a like liquid we use as quick aid to small burns. The roots when the flowers are yellow we dry and use as tea, leaves for salads and creamy type of soups as well. The roots when flower is silver flying seeds type we use mixed with wax as eczema and psoriasis or any skin issue healing cream. Dandelions have million life’s
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I made dandelion oil last year and tincture can be made as well. You harvest roots usually in fall leaving many for next year and they are washed and cut and dried, some can be even roasted and it’s an coffee alternative like chicory root.
Mother nature gives us a bounty of useful plants and we need to appreciate them!
I collected in forest woodruff and try to plant it in my community garden shaded spot, I’m just reading about its uses.
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On Friday I have plans to make my own pasta (got the recommendation on our ■■■■■■■ when I asked for egg recipes) and serv it with nettles. It’s so much that’s slowly coming up in the garden right now.
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wow dandelion oil ! do you use it for salads or can be used as frying oil ? now am curious. thanks for sharing .
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Did you notice the cover up of what ever you wrote that Discourse didn’t like, it’s a censorship… it happened to me earlier with “r a p e seed” oil, I had to use space in order to write it… oh gosh… where is the limit
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No, I used it as massage oil for muscle aches, or you can use few drops with your facial cream. But you can also create a salve oil/bee wax/plus additional essential oil. There is more on google (make sure to dry them at least for 24 hrs, water and oil don’t mix well and could spoil faster, also I found olive oil a bit too heavy, so grapeseed oil is or avocado oil is lighter, jojoba oil is expensive)
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This is so funny I didn’t se it and I had to see if my mobile had written a strange word and no it hadn’t… It’s still the right word but ok… Vikis diskussion on another app…
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ok lets see if this one you all like
this page was too long for here, but its really a good read, so take the time to read it. interesting!!!
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I loved all the recipes thats shared on hedre, how about more??
Tuna patties
or salmon patties
or our Korean & Chinese ones, course the rest of our world too!! I like to learn different recipes
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You may THINK you like store-bought tortillas but once you try homemade Fry Bread Tacos, your opinion will be forever changed! Recipe: [Fry Bread Tacos - Sweet Tea and Sprinkles]
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At the d.is.cord some one wrote about dolma and its quite interesting that there are so many versions that probably comes from the same base. This isn’t my recipe but it’s similar to mine,
“Recipe: Swedish cabbage rolls with cream sauce and lingonberry jam (kåldolmar med gräddsås och lingon)” Recipe: Swedish cabbage rolls with cream sauce and lingonberry jam (kåldolmar med gräddsås och lingon)
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one I gotta try! I filed & saved it in my recipes,
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If you can’t get lingoberries the closest thing I know is cranberries, it’s not the same but still.
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So I found a case of 4 lbs (2 kg) of apricots from Italy for 50% off since it was Saturday closed on Sunday.
My mom used to make this in summer, it’s also tasty straight from fridge when days are hot 
In German it’s called Streuselkuchen in Czech Drobenkovy Kolac in English I’m not sure, it’s a tart cake for a baking sheet with yeast dough and any fruits you want, with or without curd or Quark and the Streusel meaning a topping made of flour, butter and sugar.
I used a mix of different recipes that I liked, I always use less sugar and less fat, but one recipe amount of flour or milk didn’t match since I had to add more flour.
This is similar to what I did, I used one egg though and for Streusel it’s about all equal parts and I used also less, so it must not be all covered… I’m thinking on the calories side 
I try to post picture from my phone…
The curd mix goes straight onto the dough and then fruits and last the crumbs or Streusel.
Ca. 250-280 grams Quark, 1 eggyolk, 40 gram sugar, lemon zest, vanilla or vanilla sugar
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