National Geographic Complete Guide to Herbs and Spices

National Geographic Complete Guide to Herbs and Spices
Author: Nancy J. Hajeski
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2016-03
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1426215886

Offers everything you need to know about how herbs and spices can enhance your cooking and improve your life.

Kitchen Witchery

Kitchen Witchery
Author: Laurel Woodward
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2021-08-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738768049

Transform Your Cooking into a Magickal Act of Healing, Manifesting, and Creating Featuring a wide variety of recipes, correspondences, and techniques, this practical guide elevates the way you cook and prepare meals. Laurel Woodward shares the magick of everyday things, revealing how each task can become a ritual of creation. Organized by food type, this book teaches the magickal ins and outs of: • Wheats and Flours • Beans and Lentils • Nuts and Seeds Oils and Vinegars • Sweets • Spices and Herbs • Vegetables • Fruits Dairy and Eggs • Drinks • Gluten-Free Meals Kitchen Witchery also provides recipes for the seasons and holidays, oil and seasoning blends, and clever ways to turn your pantry items into magickal tools. From homemade hummus to herbal teas and so much more, this book nourishes your practice and shows you the bountiful magick right in your kitchen.

Backyard Garden Witchery

Backyard Garden Witchery
Author: Laurel Woodward
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2022-07-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738770965

Transform Your Yard into a Place of Healing, Peace, and Power Embrace the magick of gardening and grow your own living, breathing sanctuary. Laurel Woodward offers more than eighty spells, recipes, and activities for building, maintaining, and enjoying a biodiverse garden. This book teaches how to build a relationship with the green world while keeping your backyard garden sacred and safe. You'll explore plant energies and land spirits, the care of herb, vegetable, and flower gardens, working with your home's soil and hardiness zone, and much more. A natural companion to Kitchen Witchery, this beginner-friendly book also provides a compendium of garden plants, including common weeds, culinary herbs, and perennials. Laurel helps you design the perfect space for herbalism, meditation, spellwork, divination, healing, or worship. With her guidance, you'll create a natural haven that feeds your sense of wonder and enhances your connection to the earth.

Wellness Witchery

Wellness Witchery
Author: Laurel Woodward
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2023-10-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738775401

Hundreds of Herbal Formulas and Recipes for Health, Wealth, and Love Learn how to eat, meditate, and spellcast your way to a higher quality of life with this book on integrating a magickal mindset into daily life. Laurel Woodward shares more than one hundred herbal formulas, over eighty essential oil blends, more than thirty exercises, and nearly thirty kitchen witchery recipes. Not only will you meet plant allies and nurture a relationship with them, but you'll also find mood-lifting activities and delicious foods for healing body, mind, and spirit. Wellness Witchery shows you the potent power of plants through numerous magickal, herbal, and self-care applications. Laurel provides formulas for boosting immunity, empowering relationships, relieving stress, improving self-esteem, and more. She also offers a variety of magical baths, recipes for treats and beverages, and essential oils for confidence, protection, and inner peace. With them, you can become happier, healthier, and more magickal.

National Geographic Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies

National Geographic Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2014
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1426212607

Discover over a thousand natural remedies for a variety of ailments, including hiccups, painful joints, chapped lips, and headaches. The book also provides helpful tips for healthier living, including how to fall asleep, practice basic meditation, clean vinyl floors, and add nutritional value to foods.

Dare to Be a Green Witch

Dare to Be a Green Witch
Author: Ehris Urban
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-07-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738765570

Dozens of Stories, Remedies & Recipes from the Grounded Goodwife Discover the joys of embracing an earth-friendly, natural lifestyle with this extraordinary guide. Daughter and mother coauthors Ehris Urban and Velya Jancz-Urban provide everything you need to get started, including a wide variety of recipes and remedies, historical uses of natural ingredients, and entertaining anecdotes from their time living holistically in a 1770 Connecticut farmhouse. As the Grounded Goodwife duo, Ehris and Velya guide your journey into the green witch world, introducing you to herbal infusions, fermentation techniques, and pantry essentials. Learn the many uses of fire cider, tonics, essential oils, and collagen. Explore natural body and facial care, healthy ways to indulge in alcohol and chocolate, and recipes for relaxation. From creating an herbal sleep pillow to energy cleansing, Dare to Be a Green Witch shows you how to use nature's gifts for greater wellness. Watch the book trailer here.

The Secret History of Christmas Baking

The Secret History of Christmas Baking
Author: Linda Raedisch
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2023-09-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 073877250X

Explore the Surprising and Sometimes Dark Origins of Beloved Holiday Bakes Spice up your season by rolling, molding, and kneading your way through some of the world's most iconic Christmas recipes. Interspersed with tales of sailors, saints, tomb raiders, and artisans, The Secret History of Christmas Baking proves that even the humblest holiday treat has a global backstory. Did you know that the ancient Egyptians had their own version of gingerbread or that marzipan was once considered a pharmaceutical? Linda Raedisch dispels some long-standing culinary myths and delves into the darker chapters of the West's centuries-long romance?with sugar and spices. In addition to more than forty recipes for modern bakers, you'll find illustrated instructions for dressing up your cakes and cookie plates with paper stars, angels, and witches. From Linzer tartlets to Christstollen, you can turn your kitchen into an Old World Christmas market stall.

The Herb Gardener's Essential Guide

The Herb Gardener's Essential Guide
Author: Sandra Kynes
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738747734

Learn how to use twenty-eight popular, easy-to-grow herbs to treat everyday ailments and maintain good health. From selecting plants to harvesting and storing them to making remedies and savories of all sorts, The Herb Gardener's Essential Guide presents an abundance of practical and satisfying ways to incorporate herbs into a healthier lifestyle and diet. Utilizing both herbs and essential oils, this beautifully illustrated guide explains how to choose and make the ideal herbal mixture for a wide variety of medicinal and culinary uses. Need help getting to sleep? Try a cup of Thyme to Settle Tea. Add a sweet, spicy flavor to roast meat or vegetables with Coriander Spiced Butter. Ease muscle pain and stiffness with soothing Rosemary Warming Massage Oil. Featuring an ailments-and-issues guide, instructions for creating a personalized apothecary garden, and detailed profiles for each of the herbs, this accessible book belongs on every gardener's shelf.