Recommended Book On Cooking With Essential Oils

Recently, I saw a video teaching us how to use essential oils in our cooking. There was a lot of good information on it and they have a couple of videos available, with some of the recipes they have come up with. You can find information on that at www.eatplant.org

Ever since that video, I have been interested in using essential oils in cooking. I researched it a little more and found a cookbook for using essential oils in cooking. It was originally written in German and some of the essential oils seem to be available in Germany or Europe. For the ones we cannot get here in America, we can just substitute using herbs instead of the essential oils. But, I would love to get a hold of some of those oils. I had no idea so many things could be made into essential oils!

Here is the book I got off amazon.com




It has a lot of recipes that I think I will make over time. There are also recipes for making seasoned salts and oils, which is why I bought the book in the first place.

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Cooking With TLC: Oma's Hot Cocoa

Here is a recipe that is sure to make some happy, especially when it gets cold outside. This recipe comes from a simple hot cocoa recipe with some yummy additions.

Oma's Hot Cocoa


1 cup milk, preferably raw and grass-fed

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

1 tablespoon Stevia or a few drops liquid Stevia

Dash each cinnamon, curry powder*, nutmeg, and pink salt*

1 drop peppermint essential oil (optional)


    Place all ingredients except peppermint oil in pot. Stir really well (you could even blend the ingredients before putting them into a pot). Let the mixture heat up, but do not boil. Place drop of peppermint essential oil on bottom of a glass cup. Pour heated mixture into cup. Stir.

Lately, I have been putting a drop or two of cinnamon bark essential oil on the bottom of my cup. It gives me a really warm feeling inside.


*Suggestions for adding curry powder and pink salt came from my friend, Patte.

A word on essential oils: I used to think that the companies that specialize in essential oils were just making it up when they would say to not use easily accessible essential oils in your food, but now I do understand what they are saying. Some of the essential oils you get at a health food store or online could contain ingredients that are not good to ingest, even if the product says that it is organic. Many of these oils that should be able to be used in food are not recommended for internal use. Be very careful when you use essential oils in your cooking. If you are interested in more of this, or where the safe to ingest oils are obtainable, send me an email at: awestruck@bellsouth.net

Fresca Like Drink Using Essential Oils

I am not going to go into the health benefits of the recipes I post here. I do have other blogs for that. But here is a recipe that really tastes good. As with all of my recipes, if you are interested in ordering any of the oils, please send me an email and I will give you the information on how to order them.




Faux Fresca-Like Soda Drink
3/4 cup grapefruit juice
3/4 cup club soda
crushed ice
Liquid Stevia to taste, or sweetener of your choice
2 drops Zendocrine essential oil blend
4 drops Slim and Sassy essential oil blend
3 drops grapefruit essential oil

Fill a glass halfway with crushed ice (you can omit this part if you like your soda warm!). Place Stevia drops on ice, or whatever sweetener you will be using. Place drops of essential oils on ice. Add grapefruit juice and Club soda. Put a straw in it. Viola. Enjoy. Makes one glass.

I had run out of Zendocrine essential oil blend, so I haven't added it for a long time. Not sure if it really makes any difference in the taste if it is there or not.

One additional thing I have done to make the flavor even better is that I took some limes and sliced them up. I put them in a quart size glass jar and poured club soda over them. Whenever I want to make a glass of this Fresca like drink, I use some of the lime club soda in it. When I am done taking out enough club soda from the jar of limes, I replace the club soda I used with more club soda. I will do this until the limes turn ragged. I also did this with some oranges. I will use both in my drinks until the fruit is no longer any good.

Also, a warning about essential oils: I have used essential oils from lots of different companies and many of them do not recommend using them for internal use, even those which are taken from plants we normally would eat (like ginger and lemon). There could be a lot of reason for this, but one thing is that is could have other oils added that may not be good to ingest. There are different grades of oils and you want to use the best for food grade, which is Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade (CPTG). Most oils you find on the Internet or in health food stores won't have this kind of grade, so please be careful in your choosing of essential oils you will use in cooking or in a recipe that you will be eating.

Again, please email me if you have any questions. awestruck@bellsouth.net

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