Spices for healthy living

Recipes

Easy Honey BBQ Chicken

Easy Honey BBQ Chicken

If you're busy this is a great recipe! Easy Honey BBQ Chicken is moist and flavorful and takes only a few minutes prep time. The secret is using dark chicken meat and marinating overnight. After that it's only 20 minutes in the oven before dinner is served. Yum!
Hot Mulled Apple Cider

Hot Mulled Apple Cider

Let the spicy taste of Hot Mulled Apple Cider warm you on crisp autumn days!
Overnight Steel Cut Oatmeal with Cinnamon and Apples

Overnight Steel Cut Oatmeal with Cinnamon and Apples

Waking up to freshly cooked steel cut oatmeal for breakfast is a wonderful treat! Our customers absolutely love the fragrance and flavor of our Vietnamese Mountain Cinnamon on top.
Pickled Cauliflower with Turmeric and Cardamom

Pickled Cauliflower with Turmeric and Cardamom

 This terrifically light and healthy appetizer complements any dish.    

 

Heart Healthy Oatmeal and Banana Pancakes

Heart Healthy Oatmeal and Banana Pancakes

These Oatmeal and Banana Pancakes are delicious, heart healthy, and so easy that a 5 year old can make them ---- with just a little help from mom or dad. They remind me of buckwheat pancakes my mother used to make. Yum!
Spiced Tea

Spiced Tea

Take a moment from your busy day to relax and enjoy a hot cup of spiced tea. Spiced tea is tasty served either hot or cold.
French Country Potato Salad

French Country Potato Salad

This rustic potato salad is quick and easy to make and packed with flavor. To achieve an even fuller bodied flavor profile try using our Fig or 18 Year Balsamic Vinegars in place of the Pinot Noir Wine Vinegar.
Spiced Tomato Jam

Spiced Tomato Jam

Uniquely flavorful jam great for any time of the day. 

Grilled Steaks with Tuscan Herb Compound Butter

Grilled Steaks with Tuscan Herb Compound Butter

Tuscan Herb Compound Butter lends a rich, savory flavor to grilled steak and grilled or cooked garden vegetables. Keep some in your refrigerator to use whenever you want to add a dash of flavor to your food.
Garam Masala Ice Cream

Garam Masala Ice Cream

Our Garam Masala is a warm, spicy blend that is more flavorful than any others we’ve sampled. This special blend creates a unique, flavorful artisanal ice cream with warm spicy cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom flavors.
Honey Chipotle Ice Cream with Saffron

Honey Chipotle Ice Cream with Saffron

Make your own artisanal ice cream with our Honey Chipotle Rub. Top with our saffron (it has the scent and taste of a rich honey) to enhance the honey flavor of this ice cream.
Roasted Eggplant with Harissa and Feta

Roasted Eggplant with Harissa and Feta

We are very grateful to Iglika Petrova for sharing this deliciously tasty recipe featuring wonderful summer produce with us and our customers. Iglika is a very talented recipe developer and photographer (many more delicious recipes and beautiful photographs can be seen on Iglika’s website: www.sprig-of-thyme.com). Iglika, thank you SO much for sharing your talent with us!
Easy Champagne Vinegar Coleslaw

Easy Champagne Vinegar Coleslaw

This delicious Champagne Vinegar Based Coleslaw is quick and easy to assemble and a healthy alternative to creamy coleslaws.
Firecracker Ice Cream

Firecracker Ice Cream

Firecracker Ice Cream, flavored with Ethiopian Berbere Spice Blend, has a savory, exotic taste with an icy hot finish. It is the perfect creamy dessert for anyone who is a fan of creative artisanal ice creams.
Jerk Seasoned Pork Ribs

Jerk Seasoned Pork Ribs

This simple recipe yields juicy, fall-off-the-bone ribs in just a few easy steps. You start by parboiling, then simmering the meat until it is very tender. Next you marinate them overnight in our aromatic Jerk Seasoning, and then grill them until they are succulent and tender with crisp blackened grill marks. Delicious!
Lavender Bee's Knees Cocktail

Lavender Bee's Knees Cocktail

Celebrate summer with Lavender Bee's Knees Cocktails! Bees Knee's Cocktails were popular during prohibition when honey was added to cocktails to cover up the less than ideal scent of bathtub gin. The phrase “bee’s knees” was a popular slang phrase used during prohibition that meant “the best.”
Steakhouse Beer Cocktail

Steakhouse Beer Cocktail

If you've never tasted a beer cocktail before you don't know what you've been missing! The Steakhouse Rub seasoning lends an interesting, nuanced flavor to this mix. Serve it at your next barbecue and your guests will wonder what your secret recipe is. This refreshing cocktail can be made 3 ways: "high test", "low test", and mocktail.
Summer Shrubs

Summer Shrubs

Shrubs, which are sweet vinegar mixed with seltzer or other sparkling beverage, can be used in cocktails or mocktails. Several of our balsamic vinegars work well for making simple shrubs that are easy, low calorie, and feel kinda fancy. 
Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade

Captivating floral notes from Lavender Flowers and vibrant citrus flavors make this lemonade irresistible. This perfect pairing has a cool, refreshing taste.

Honey Chipotle Grilled Pineapple

Honey Chipotle Grilled Pineapple

Honey Chipotle Grilled Pineapple is super easy to make and so delicious your dinner guests will keep asking for more! Many other fruits and vegetables can be grilled with Honey Chipotle Rub, including peaches, plantains, tomatoes, garlic, and others. Or try grilling shrimp with pineapple prepared with Honey Chipotle Rub for a delicious barbecue entree.
Pomegranate-Quince Gin and Absinthe Cocktail

Pomegranate-Quince Gin and Absinthe Cocktail

Our customer Max H. created this intriguing and delicious cocktail. After tasting it we're so glad that he graciously agreed to share his recipe with us and our other customers! Pomegranate-Quince White Balsamic Vinegar has enough natural fruit sugar to be useable like a shrub without needing added sugar and the absinthe adds an intriguing complexity to this cocktail. You can see the "green fairy" (i.e. absinthe) in the drink's mystical opalescent glow. 
Lemon Pepper Fried Fish

Lemon Pepper Fried Fish

This quick and easy Lemon Pepper Fried Fish will quickly become a summer favorite! Our Lemon Pepper Blend has a nice pepper flavor with a decidedly zesty lemon twist that is "not your mother's" lemon pepper.
Easy Summer Shandy

Easy Summer Shandy

A quick and easy recipe for a refreshing summer classic.
Pickled Red Onions with Egyptian Coriander

Pickled Red Onions with Egyptian Coriander

These pickled onions take only minutes to make and are a delicious complement to salads, meat, vegetables, and pasta. Our heirloom Egyptian Coriander seeds really enhance the flavor of this dish because of their distinctive sweet and citrusy flavor.