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Cooking with Essential Oils: Fried Green Tomatoes

October 4, 2009 in Cooking with Essential Oils, Essential Oils, Gardening, How do I use, Nutrition / Diet, Recipes, Thyme, Young Living Distributor by Evelyn Vincent | No comments

With the seasons changing you may find you have some tomatoes that haven’t ripened yet in the garden – no worry – here’s a yummy recipe for those green tomatoes. cooking-oils

Fried Green Tomatoes with Thyme Essential Oil

6 large green tomatoes
1 tsp. paprika
1/2 cup blue or yellow cornmeal
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1 cup milk
1 TBS. fresh parsley, finely chopped
1 drop Young Living Thyme – or – Mountain Savory essential oil
olive oil

Mix all ingredients (except tomatoes, milk, and olive oil). Dip sliced tomatoes in milk. Coat with cornmeal mixture. Cook in a sauté pan with olive oil until tomatoes are crisp on the outside. Makes 6 servings.

Note: do NOT substitute other brands of essential oils for cooking or ingesting, they are unsafe for internal use due to improper processing and adulteration. Young Living Essential Oils are food grade and the edible plants they come from make them safe for cooking and flavoring food.

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Essential oils are potent. If you use just the bottle to drip them out you can only get 1 drop, but when it comes to cooking oftentimes you will find that 1 drop is too much. But how do you get less than one?

There are no kitchen tools that will accurately measure 1/4, 1/2, 2/3, etc of a drop so it really will come down to an art.

One of the ways to get less than a drop is to use a toothpick. However this will be very inaccurate because it will depend on how porous the toothpick is and how long you leave it in the recipe you are making. It can also be wasteful as the toothpick will retain some of the oil when you throw it away. Well, you can always pick your teeth with it.

A more accurate way to get closer to an exact amount is to tip the bottle slowly until the drop begins to form. When the drop is about the size you need or want, take a clean spoon and touch it to the “partial” drop. The spoon will then have what you need and you can stir it into your recipe.

Happy cooking and Bon Apetit!

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The kitchen and bathroom are often a source of odors and bacteria. Use the following mixtures to freshen, deodorize, and disinfect the air, work areas, cupboards, bathroom fixtures, sinks, tiles, woodwork, carpets, door knobs, phones, keyboards, on toilets and around the base of smelly toilets, etc.

These blends are safe for the family and the environment, and smell oh so good!

The Young Living essential oils in these spray mixtures will also help eliminate germs and bacteria. Don’t expect to get these kinds of results with novelty aromatherapy oils found in health food stores.

Twenty years ago I became interested in essential oils because I was fed-up with spending a fortune on so-called natural household cleaners. I was determined to find nice smelling solutions that I could make myself for all of my household cleaning and as an air freshener. Young Living wasn’t in business twenty years ago so I had to buy my essential oils from another company, which were the best I could find at the time – they were not therapeutic-grade like Young Living’s so I could not use them topically or internally – still, I thought they were better than the ineffective natural cleaning products I was using.

I discovered Young Living oils in 1998 and as soon as my order arrived I compared my Young Living oils to the other brand I had been using – YUCK! I could not believe how disgusting the other brand of oils smelled. I threw out about $600 worth of essential oils that day, I just could not bring myself to use the inferior brand, not when I had the real deal in my hands… finally!

To this day I have not found any brand of essential oil that is more pure than my Young Living oils. I can use the Young Living oils in ways I had only dreamed – topically, internally, in cooking, as well as what got me into essential oils in the first place, for household cleaning and sanitizing.

I used Young Living oils for around 6 years before I decided to become a distributor four years ago. I just love these oils and the quality cannot be beat, their effectiveness is amazing.

The first recipe below is one of my all time favorites, I still use it even after all these years. I have found it to be superb at destroying odors and killing germs.

Tip: Since essential oils separate easily from water, always shake well and shake every so often as you use these mixtures. They will deodorize and clean the air, instead of covering or masking the odors.

Refreshing and Bacteria Killing Blend

32 oz. spray bottle
8 drops Spearmint
8 drops Orange or Lemon or Tangerine
6 drops Lavender
6 drops Thyme
6 drops Rosemary CT cineol  
4 drops Eucalyptus globulus
water

Fill spray bottle 7/8 of the way with water, add your Young Living essential oils. Shake the mixture well and periodically during use.

I Love To Clean Blend

32 oz. spray bottle
10 drops Lavender
10 drops Purification Blend
water

Fill spray bottle 7/8 of the way with water, add your Young Living essential oils. Shake the mixture well and periodically during use.

Refresh and Purify

6 drops Pine
6 drops Chamomile
4 drops Melaleuca alternifolia
4 drops Lemongrass, or Clove

Fill a 32 oz. spray bottle 7/8 of the way with water, add your Young Living essential oils. Shake the mixture well and periodically during use.

Springtime Fresh Blend

32 oz. spray bottle
12 drops Orange
10 drops Tangerine
10 drops Spearmint
Water

Fill a 32 oz. spray bottle 7/8 of the way with water, add your Young Living essential oils. Shake the mixture well and periodically during use.

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Many of us use synthetic chemicals to deal with insects, which are not safe for us, our families, or pets to be exposed to. Young Living has many single essential oils such as lavender, lemon, peppermint, melaleuca, lemongrass, cypress, Eucalyptus globulus, cinnamon, thyme, basil, wintergreen, and the Purification and Thieves blends, which effectively repel many types of insects including dust mites, lice, ticks, spiders, and fleas.

For instance, Young Living’s Peppermint essential oil placed on entryways prevents ants from entering. Simply smear a couple drops along the threshold. Peppermint is also excellent for repelling ants and rodents (squirrels and mice). peppermint-1

If you need moth repellents for your linens and woolens, you can avoid toxic commercial mothballs made of naphthalene – instead use Young Living’s essential oils. Natural essential oils like lavender, lemongrass, Western Red Cedar, or Rosemary can just as effectively repel moths and other insects, without the harmful chemical exposure.

You can make a sachet by placing several drops of your chosen essential oil on a cotton ball. Wrap and tie the cotton ball in a small handkerchief or square of cotton. Hang this sachet in storage areas or in your chest of linens. The sachet can be refreshed as often as necessary. You can put this sachet in your dresser drawers to keep your clothes freshly scented.

Making a spray bottle for your Young Living oils is a terrific way to freshen air and repel unwanted insects. Here are some household cleaning blend recipes, but you can make your own combinations for insects by simply using some of the above essential oils.

If spiders are an issue in your home, I have always found that diffusing, in my Young Living nebulizer diffuser, the Young Living blends Thieves or Purification to be quite effective. If I haven’t had my diffuer on in a while or when I move into a new house that spiders start appearing and then die after I start diffusing. I find that diffusing for 15-30 minutes a day keeps the spiders away.

Palo Santo is terrific at killing embedded ticks. I put one drop of Palo Santo essential oil directly on the tick and it kills them. I also use my Young Living Lavender Shampoo once a month when I give my dog a bath, and I add to it 4-5 drops of Palo Santo – it smells terrific and helps kill any fleas and repels fleas and ticks too.

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Essential Oils for Blisters and Boils

June 7, 2009 in Aromatherapy, Best Essential Oils, Clove, First Aid tips, Foot, How do I use, Lavender, Oregano, Tea Tree / Melaleuca, Therapeutic-grade Essential Oil, Thyme, Young Living Distributor by Evelyn Vincent | No comments

Using Young Living essential oils for treating minor discomforts is such a pleasure. The purity of their oils and the effectiveness cannot be beat. The best part of using Young Living therapeutic-grade essential oils is how quickly I can see results. Here are a couple First Aid tips for common issues with feet.

Foot care for pretty feet.

Blisters

Blisters are created when fluid is trapped under the skin. They can be caused by physical injury (ie., chemical burns, sunburns) or microbial infestation (ie., fungal and viral diseases such as Herpes simplex, athlete’s foot, etc.).

Blisters First Recommendations: Tea tree, Melrose

Other Single Oils: Lavender, Roman or German Chamomile

Blends: Purification

Application

Topical: dilute 50:50 (one part essential oil to one part carrier oil), apply to blistered area 3-5 times daily, as needed

Other Young Living Topical Treatments: Lavaderm Cooling Mist (spray)

Boils

Boils (carbuncles are groups of boils) are caused by bacterial infection which creates a pus-filled hair follicle. They can be easily treated with antiseptic essential oils including melaleuca and clove.

Boils First Recommendations: Melaleuca ericifolia, Melrose

Other Single Oils: Clove, Thyme, Oregano, Tea Tree (Melaleuca)

(Note: Clove, Thyme and Oregano are spicy oils, so you will always need to use a carrier oil, such as Young Living’s V-6)

Other Blends: Purification, Thieves

Application

Topical: dilute 50:50 (one part essential oil to one part carrier oil), apply 2-3 drops on location 3-6 times daily.

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