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Powders for My Chowder [Experimenting With Herbs]
One of the things I love about herbs is that many are just wonderful to add to your daily diet, adding not only taste but nourishment. Sometimes they are just *fun*, and lately, I've been experimenting with making my own herbal powders. It's as easy as drying the herb and using a pestle and mortar or a coffee grinder to reduce them to granules. 


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It's important to note that when you do dry and powderise a herb, it looses some of it's nutrition because more of it is exposed to the air. When I do intend to use the powder, I grind enough for a few days or just for that day, leaving the dried herbs in a jar. Like this smoothie or porridge mix that I'll be taking camping with me. 


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Nettles are in season at the moment so I've been drying them for tea, so they form about a third of this blend. Rich in lots of nutrients, I love nettle at this time of the year - it's good for hayfever, but it's also just an all round nutrient boost. Broccoli leaves also get dried and powdered, and kale. For sweet food like porridge or smoothies, I balance out the green taste with strawberry powder that I dehydrate - honestly, if you want to make your house smell freaking amazing, dry strawberries. For those of you that know me, of *course* I add calendula to the mix. The sky is the limit with herbal powders - it's a matter of finding what herb is going to benefit and nourish you, and blending into a powder that tastes good as well. I've recently fell in love with lemon balm again for it's calming qualities - it's nice just on it's own! 


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Now - to my smoothies! I've been adding maca to balance my hormones, linseeds and an LSA (linseeds, sunflower seeds and almonds). A banana for creaminess. Some of my liquid yoghurt (which is basically coconut milk with culture, fermented - but being coconut milk, it doesn't go thick like yoghurt but still is tangy and has the probiotics I need) for tang, and some lime or lemon juice (I'm a fan of tang, but the extra vitamin C boost is so good - plus my trees are dripping with fruit!). Then I add a big spoonful of powder, and if I have it, a knob of turmeric. Today I also ground some rosehips, but my spice grinder struggled to grind the seeds - no matter, in a smoothie they slide down easy enough..and rosehips are full of vitamin C and fibre, so why not? 


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#### How do you get extra herbs in your diet? 
#### Have you ever experimented with herbal powders? 

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@goldenoakfarm ·
Very cool idea and not one I'd thought of....  I just use the whole herbs I've dehydrated.
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@riverflows ·
Give it a go sometime - it's quite fun! I used the broccoli/nettle/strawberry one on my porridge whilst I was on holiday. Jamie and Dad were mortified - wtf broccoli on my porridge??? But they oculdn't really taste it - it was far more strawberry than anything! 
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@justinparke ·
Looking good, I can only imagine the smell of dehydrating strawberries. Near our family farm in the USA, we have U-Pick blueberry and strawberry farms, and I sense this will be a fun adventure for the family.

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@riverflows ·
Oh yes, you'd love it. You can even make a solar dehydrator for it. The girls would love it! Dehydrated apples are also amazing! 
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@mamrita ·
It hasn't crossed my mind that it's possible to dry (and grind) strawberries. Even though I, of course, have come across dried strawberries 🙂 The smell of that really feels very appealing as I was reading this. Have to write this down for next summer 🙂

Happy camping

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@riverflows ·
Hey! Just got back and trying to tidy up, garden and get on with usual life - sorry I'v ebeen absent! Definitely do this - you'll lvoe it! 
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@sirenahippie · (edited)
These are excellent ideas that you present to us. I dry the whole plants of pira or amaranth (Amaranthus) and grind them, to add them usually to my food, soups and grains. I also take the seeds of the pira (Amaranthus), hich are very tiny, roast them a little, along with pumpkin and sesame seeds, and I grind them and add them to my arepas, or to milk with oatmeal, they taste delicious, and provide me with endless nutrients.  Greetings.
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@riverflows ·
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Oh that's a brilliant idea! I'm growing more amaranth this year, will try that one - a great sourcde of protein..
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@sugandhaseth ·
I didn't know you could make a herb out of the broccoli. That's new to me, thanks for sharing.



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