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Summer 2022 Herbal Salts- The Fruit Series

July 28, 2022

Summer 2022 Herbal Salts- The Fruit Series

July 27th 2022

SOLD OUT! Sorry

Even though these are sold out, this will give you a good idea of what is to come.

Something deep inside me lights up in the presence of fresh herbs. I am enraptured by them, as well as those who grow and use them. I hope I can inspire you to use more of them.

Fresh herbs have been a symbol of my own artistry and creative spirit since I started growing them in my garden in Eugene, Oregon, in my early 20’s. Not only are they a staple in my cooking, but they have sprung up in every aspect of my life ever since.

My Herbal Roots is the creative manifestation of everything herbal I have experienced along the way, and a projection of all to come. It’s a place for me to share my herbal passion indiscriminately, allowing me to document the herbal moments that light my path, providing a home to pause in celebration and appreciation.

I have been conscious of my own innate passionate streak from an early age. Like many others, I remember coloring outside the lines as a child. What set me apart was the self-confidence I had that couldn’t be swayed by anyone telling me it was wrong. My inner strength carried me forward from the get-go, fearlessly driving me to where and who I am today.

The Summer 2022 – The Fruit Series is a manifestation of my life in Missouri. I hope you enjoy.

Pineapple Green Chili Verbena Salt

Fresh Herbs: Lemon Verbena, Honey Melon Sage, Strawberry Geranium Flowers, Pineapple Mint, Spearmint, Evening Primrose Petals Produce: Fresh Pineapple, Lime Juice, Serrano Chili, Red Bell Peppers, Garlic Scapes, Green Dandelion  Spices: Smoked Paprika, Sumac, Bee Pollen  Citrus Zest: Lemon & Lime Zest  Other: Smoked Oak Water, Hot Mustard, Pineapple Powder, (House) Smoked Maldon Salt, Maldon Salt

Summer Fig & Rosemary Salt 

Fresh Herbs: Pink Majorca and Santa Barbara Rosemary, Big Blue and Spanish Lavender Leaves, Horehound, Lemon Leaf, Licorice, Ginger Bush, Turkestan Oregano, White Sage  Produce: Fresh Figs, Meyer Lemon Juice  Spices: Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cobanero Chili Flakes,  Sweet Paprika, Robusta Black Pepper, Dried Elderflower and Lavender Blossoms  Citrus Zest: Lemon Zest  Other: Kefalonia Royal Jelly, Maldon Salt

Summer Melon Herb Salt

Fresh Herbs: Rau Rom (Vietnamese Coriander), Cilantro, Japanese & Vietnamese Mints, Thai Basil, Spearmint, Lemongrass, Lemon Basil, Purple Basil, Thai Basil Flower Buds  Produce:  Galia Melon, Serrano Chili, Garlic Scapes, Lime Juice  Spices: Lemongrass Powder, Galangal Powder, Matcha Powder, Markut Lime Powder, Ginger Powder, White Pepper  Citrus Zest: Lemon & Lime Zest  Other: Maldon Salt

Smoky Apricot & #MangoJoy BBQ Floral Salt

Fresh Herbs: Zuta Levana, Melon Bush Sage, Cardinal Sage, Purple Sage, White Sage, Lemon Leaf,  Melissa Lavender Flowers, Big Blue Lavender Leaves, Tuscan Blue Rosemary, Zambesi Thyme, Orange Thyme, Pine Geranium Flowers, Hyssop Flowers, Maui Wormwood Produce:  Fresh Ataulfo Mango, Grilled Apricots, Garlic Scapes, Jalapeño  Spices: Smoked Paprika, Cobanero Chili Flakes, Cinnamon, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Mora Chipotle Chilies,  Urfa Chili Flakes, Rose Petals, Elderflower Blossoms, Bee Pollen Citrus Zest: Lemon & Lime Zest  Other: Liquid Smoke, Brown Sugar, (House) Smoked Maldon Salt, Maldon Salt

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This one is in motion still. The meringue dust  and powdered sugar will be added to the final dried floral and spice mix - which is what this part is about. I wish you could smell this. 

The final result will be an incredibly unique salty sweet floral herbal fairy dust designed with both sweet and savory in mind. Just you wait…..
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A kind of on the fly endeavor, thought through one way and executed another. Woodfired broccoli, bell peppers, garlic and Meyer lemons tossed in a slurry of honey balsamic vinegar, golden raisins, white anchovies, olive oil herbs and spices.  Fresh mint as well. It was so delicious 

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Nissa’s Chinese Chicken Salad
Savoy and red cabbage, baby bok choy, red kale, shredded carrots, red peppers, Japanese cucumbers, scallions, mint, cilantro sesame seeds- grilled five spice Chinese mustard ginger marinated chicken and my hot mustard honey almond sesame brittle with a basic Chinese chicken dressing with fresh orange. 

For an appetizer I served nectarine wedges with olive oil, lime juice, and a special salt made with peanuts, green Birds Eye chilis, and cinnamon basil. 

I made a lovely bergamot rose ice tea and sun steeped it with fresh strawberries and cinnamon basil for two days.
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Are you, like me,  always thinking about how to incorporate more @pointreyescheese #OriginalBlue in your eating repertoire? 

Behold my new herbal magic. 

An unapologetically decadent and stunning steak salt for real steak lovers who know the salt is everything. The luxurious creamy tang of Pt. Reyes Blue (yes it’s actually in the salt!) comingles with Gospel Flats Farm vibrant red beets for one of my most earthy alchemies! 

it’s a little sweet, and super vegetal, loaded with local, foraged, and  what we Bolinas folks call over-the-hill provisions

This aroma, to me, is reminiscent of cheese and earth after rain- VERY PLESANTLY SO. 

It has an obscene amount of beet flecks, that melt on anything hot. 

Pretty tones of wild fennel get captured while brighter herbs keep this from getting too earth dirty. Its sharp, salty, tangy flavor cuts through the rich fat and heavy umami of beef, while the bold, creamy cheese balances flavor, zigzagging through herbaceous, milky pasture vibes while never insulting the steak flavor. 

Potent herbs—hummingbird sage, savory, rosemary, and nepitella—meld with the peppery bite of wild arugula and the floral earthiness of huacatay flowers, keeping it and your steak interesting. 

This is the only steak salt you need, but like my personal being demonstrates, there are no rules to it use. I’m digging it on little gem wedge salads with more blue cheese and particularly on salty splashy cold summer cucumbers.

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Peachy Tomato Salt

A lush summer nectar of ripe peach and heirloom tomato, captured in a flaky salt, layered with an abundance of fresh local Bolinas  herbs and summer flowers. Bright citrus, wild fennel, and delicate peppery spice weave through the sweetness, with subtle savory depth underneath. Floral, juicy, aromatic, and vibrant — a little wild, a little extravagant, and completely summer. Luscious. 

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The steak salt of the season. 
Pt Reyes Blue Cheese Beet Steak Salt

Available now at www.Shop.Herbal-Roots.com

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Halibut á la nage- technically swimming in fresh tomato nectar. 

Take fresh heirloom tomatoes grate them into a nectar and stew/poach fresh halibut in it with ample Fisherman’s Catch Herbal Surf Salt

Add zucchini if you want. 

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Fresh tomato sauce for wood fired pizza?

So simple. Take canned high quality San marizano tomatoes - pomodoro san marzano (I’ve been there is smells amazing there)

Crush them with a food mill, push through a strainer or use your hands!

Add tiny fresh garlic bits and fresh herbs cut teenie. Add my Balinese Lagoon WoodFire Pizza Salt - it snarls like Sicily. 

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Romano Beans with Basil Garlic Chili Crisp. 

Steam beans, season with Coastal California Wild Herbal Green Salt 

Mortar and pestle some garlic and basil add chili crisp - drizzle on the beans! Toss a few more basil leaves for fun. Add cherry tomatoes too. 

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Wild Fennel & Anise Cold Cucumbers 

Whisk some of my Briny Lemon Anise Cucumber Salt together with a little lemon champagne vinegar, lemon juice or white blasamic, a pinch or two of hair sugar  add ice, water and peeled cucumbers. Chill for  about 30 min drain and serve ice cold with a little more salt. 

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Jasmine Vanilla Labneh Panna Cotta with Fresh Cherry Granita & a crack of Black Pepper 

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Peppery Beach Flowers Meringue Dust  Available now at www.Shop.Herbal-Roots.com

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This is going to be a mixer for tequila. Just a simple mix, tequila , big rock. That’s the challenge - not sweet. 

This week I’m deconstructing one of my favorite herb salts/recipes I did living in Bolinas years ago with all the wild jasmine - basically the salt was jasmine and black pepper in salt and it was delicious on lemon cucumbers. So this is along that idea. It’s a Japanese cucumber smashed up, fresh jasmine and lime leaf, lemon grass, lemon verbena, lemon and limes and some champagne vinegar and some of my jasmine sugar mix
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Everything is connected. Tonight a nectarine, peach tomato salad with cinnamon basil flowers, feta and my new Summer Flowers Peachy Tomato Salt - the new @myherbalroots summer salt collection is done and will be released soon. It’s a good one and I’m enjoying it already! Pork loin with smashed nectarine, cinnamon basil and the salt…… imagine if I used my talents in fashion like this.
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The new collection is in motion now and thanks to @shellmosh who I would have achieved nothing of my herbal roots without - it will be available on line as well as locally here in Bolinas. Release date approx Aug 24th 

Summer 2026: Coastal Air & Wild Edges — The Bolinas Seascape Collection

Windswept | Rooted | Untamed | Pliant | Attuned | Interwoven | Kinbound | Interdependent

An homage to the coastal ecology of Bolinas, where relentless winds, cool summer fog, and the Pacific shape a landscape that is both enduring and ever-changing. Local wild and cultivated herbs root this collection, and seasonal harvests from neighboring landscapes both hot and cold are speckled in like welcomed and unbidden tourists, enriching rather than redefining fully. 

Together the collection flavors represent constant, ongoing exchange — like tides and birds coming and going. Every pinch waxes and wanes something familiar and new. 

It also tastes and metaphors as safety in that consistency of community especially  amidst a backdrop of powerful force whether it be anchovies or  blustery coastal weather or state of the world.

The collection mirrors the idea that more resilience is possible with wide-ranging, solid root systems, quietness, and flexibility. That home can be many places for me, just like fish and birds. That my way of avant garde  flavorings is just movement and exchange representing my own movement and that when rooted with pliancy….. i fruit.

This summers collection is about an intimate relationship with place, as well as community, herbs, and people. It’s not about my garden, as I have none now. It’s not about displacement.

Bolinas remains Bolinas because of what is deeply rooted there. The seasonal visitors included — the herbs, neighboring ingredients and over the hill amenities, the ocean air, migrating birds, seeds, pollinators, and people — all come and go. I understand that. No place has ever understood that nature in me like bolinas has. 

What stays, here,  is always strong and adaptive. I feel strong and adaptive here, and this collection is a reflection of that strength only possible by the safety I feel here to be viscerally and creatively me
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