This is a special episode of An Herbal Diary. I am organizing a virtual herbal bake club and this is the first companion podcast episode.  Please consider joining me! I have also started a newsletter on Substack. Please subscribe for all the details, recipes and zoom link for the meeting. 

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Our first Herbal Bake Club Meeting: Saturday, October 25th at 2 pm EST. 

We will be making two herb infused desserts, banana panna cotta and lemon butter cookies. We have two special herbal guests -  ashwagandha and cardamom. We will meet on Zoom. 

I've introduced ashwagandha in the last few episodes. 

Link to Ashwagandha Monograph episode. 

Sources for Herbal Ingredients:

Cardamom Pods

Ashwagandha Tea

Ashwagandha Root

I hope that our herbal bake club will give us a chance to smile a bit together, immerse ourselves in kitchen herbalism and bake lovely creations. 

Sending you warm baking and gathering together thoughts and thank you for listening!!

---Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss.  Find her at thecreativeimposter.com. 

Original music by Dylan Rice

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ABOUT DINA

Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three humans - two daughters and one son all now living their young adult lives - and one sweet Pomeranian named Maci.