Fresh Bites Daily

May 21

A natural mango lip scrub to put an end to winter’s chapped lips (in a lesson from India)

Amanda’s note: I always love opening up my emails from Ramya because I get to read great new content like this one. Ramya writes from a coconut farm in India where she shares traditional solutions to daily problems and some of her best kitchen techniques. Using fresh mango to fight the lingering chapped lips from […]

May 20

Strawberries. The best recipes. Right here.

By Amanda Rose | Berries

It is that time of year in California when the strawberries are just bursting out of their little plants. We can find good strawberries all summer long but springtime is definitely boom time here and we do sometimes find ourselves with a crate full. They don’t last long so we always have a processing scramble […]

May 19

A graphic picture as evidence that prevention is easier than treatment when it comes to skin cancer (and a simple remedy you can try today)

By Amanda Rose | Natural Body Care

You’ve probably seen the articles around the Internet: “What advice would I give to my teenage self?” The advice invariably refers to finding a mate, finding purpose in life, and protecting your skin. What most people realize as they hit that point of “middle age” is that skin protection would have been a very easy […]

May 18

Canned Salmon Review: The Canned Salmon Taste Test

By Amanda Rose | Salmon

I tried this canned salmon for the first time in 2005 and I have gushed about it in our tome about why we love canned salmon. Back in 2005, I was loading up on high omega-3 foods hoping to improve my brain health and to prepare my body for another baby. The day that the […]

May 18

Lavender Syrup Recipe With An Answer To The Age-Old Question: “Why is it Brown?”

By Amanda Rose | Lavender

This syrup may be the most popular herbal syrup by far. Most of us are obsessed by the beauty and the fragrance of this Mediterranean herb. Its popularity has exploded in the United States in the last couple of decades. We can now find many varieties of English lavender, Spanish lavender, and even yellow lavender. […]

May 14

Pickled dandelion. Ha! Yes, these are some very good pickles.

By Amanda Rose | Dandelion

Amanda’s note: Here is another fun post by Carol Little of Studio Botanica. She mentioned the concept of dandelion pickles in her post here on dandelion vinegar and I said, “Carol, we NEED to know more about that.” She sent me a recipe, I made it, waited around for two weeks before I could taste […]