Pomegranate Apple Salad: Easy-to-Make Healthy Holiday Recipe

This beautiful nutritious salad is perfect for the holidays. Spring greens, pomegranates and apples support your body with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants building up your immune system as you enjoy these delicious flavors.

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Top 6 Posts For 2021

When I launched My Medicinal Home in 2020, it fulfilled a longtime dream. I love getting to share all I’ve learned about healing and nutrition over the course of my life, and all I’m continuing to learn about new and effective ways to help heal our bodies. 

In 2021, I’ve focused less on writing posts or sharing recipes and more on investing in my personal healing. Still, the site stays active with daily views. Thank you to everyone who has left me a comment, shared a post, or written an encouraging message!

Here are the most viewed posts in 2021:

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Making Elderflower Honey: A Delicious Way to Support Your Immune System

You may have heard about the benefits of elderberries, but did you know their spring flowers also have medicinal properties? Both elder flowers and berries are used for minimizing the symptoms of the common cold and the flu.

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Broccoli & Mushroom Stir-Fry: Quick & Easy, Nutritious Weeknight Meal

Do you need a new dinner idea? Broccoli & Mushroom Stir-Fry is a weekly meal in our home. It is a quick and healthy dish that is ready to eat in about 30 minutes. You can serve this main dish alone or with rice or gluten-free noodles.

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How to Make Elderberry Syrup: Immune Support & Virus Protection

Taking elderberry syrup is an effective remedy to protect yourself from viruses. If you do get sick, it will help to shorten the duration of your illness. But you may have heard that elderberries are poisonous. Let me explain.

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Winter Squash with Creamy Shiitake Sauce

This creamy and hearty dish is full of healthy, wholesome ingredients, and it’s vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free. Winter Squash with Creamy Shiitake Sauce will convince you that a meal of vegetables is satisfying and delicious. 

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Autumn Kale & Roasted Sweet Potato Salad: Satisfying & Immune Boosting

I get excited for fall just thinking about eating this salad.  It is loaded with immune boosting antioxidants in the kale, apples, sweet potatoes & herbs.  It is a perfect dish to build up the body as we head into the flu and cold season. The colorful appearance and delicious fall flavors in this unique salad make it fun to serve to others.

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Homemade Immune Boosting Root Beer Recipe

When you think of root beer, “healthy” probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But this homemade root beer isn’t your average sugary soda. It’s immune-boosting and full of medicinal roots and mushrooms.

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Make Your Own Dandelion Root Latte – with Great Health Benefits

Drinking a dandelion root latte is one of my favorite ways to consume this medicinal plant. I have a special attraction and amazement towards this abundant NW plant. Dandelion reminds me that even when we try to push nature away, like when people try to kill dandelions as a weed, nature still loves us and provides medicine for us just about everywhere.

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How to Make Hawthorn Honey: Stress Relief & Immune Support

I love eating wild foods and they’re great for your health! Hawthorn trees grow all around the Pacific Northwest.  From mid to late September be on the lookout for the ripe red berries on this medicinal plant.  I know I will be out gathering this healing plant and making one of my favorite honeys – Hawthorn Honey!

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