Holistic Herbal Secrets

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Greetings Red BEE BALM: I appreciate you who livens up the landscape & menu (for humans and pollinators)!

Yes, we can sprinkle its individual blossoms onto all manner of food & beverage, but did you know, this Native American perennial, scientifically called Monarda didyma, makes an intriguing, deeply flavored tapenade.

To help with ID, harvest & use here is our Bee Balm illustrated page from our book "Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook" by Dina Falconi, illustrated by Wendy Hollender
More about our book on our site here: www.ForagingAndFeasting.com

Our Bee Balm Tapenade Master Recipe (from the book Foraging & Feasting)
Makes about 1½ cups

½ pound (8 oz) oil-cured black olives, pitted, or Black Botija (see olive note below)
5 anchovy filets, packed in oil and drained
2 tablespoons capers, drained
4–6 field garlic bulbs, or 1 garlic clove
½ teaspoon citrus zest: lemon, lime, or orange
¼ cup aromatic, fresh bee balm (leaf and flower), coarse stems removed
½ cup cold-pressed olive oil

Place all ingredients except the oil in a food processor, and blend until ingredients are finely minced into a coarse paste. Don’t over process the tapenade or it will become too thin. Add the olive oil and blend for a few more seconds. Place into small bowls and serve with whole-grain sourdough bread, or spread onto cucumber or radish slices. To store, put tapenade in glass jars with tight-fitting lids in the refrigerator where it will keep for many months.

Aromatic Fresh Wild Herb Variations: Use ¼–½ cup total of one or a mixture of the following: garlic mustard, sweet cicely, wild bergamot, bee balm, mint or gill-over-the-ground. These are best used fresh.

Aromatic Cultivated Herb Variations: Use ¼ cup fresh herbs, to include one or a mixture of the following: thyme, oregano, hardy marjoram, basil or winter or summer savory. Or if only dried herbs are available, use a total of 1 tablespoon.

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The golden oyster mushroom, a tasty species native to Asia, has proliferated in states around the Great Lakes and may crowd out native species, a new study shows.

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