Sweet Willow Wellness Blogs and Recipes

This Echinacea Immune-Boosting Smoothie is a delicious way to incorporate the health benefits of Echinacea into your diet.

This isn’t a family recipe, but it’s been in my cookbook for years – unfortunately, I didn’t note the source when I added the recipe to...

2 tablespoons dried ginger root 2 tablespoons dried orange peel 1 tablespoon cinnamon chips 1 teaspoon peppercorns 1/2 teaspoon...

1 large yellow onion, chopped 6-8 cloves garlic, chopped 2-3 stalks celery (use the leaves!), cleaned and chopped 1-2 Tbs Extra Virgin...

Rosemary ( Salvia rosmarinus ) is one of my favorite herbs – both as a culinary herb and for its anti-inflammatory properties and immune...

A favorite wintertime recipe of mine incorporates goji berries, which have grow beautifully in my Wisconsin gardens (even though I do...

I love cranberries – pretty much any way you want to give them to me, so long as they’re not out of a can! Native to North America, many...

Ashwagandha ( Withania somnifera ) is one of my favorite adaptogens, and it has been shown to have immune-modulating effects, and has...

1 cup fresh shiitake mushrooms (or ⅓ cup dried), chopped into bite sized pieces 1 cup chopped onion 2-3 slices astragalus root 2-3 cloves...

This is as simple as it gets – take a few bulbs of organic garlic and peel each of the cloves. Put the cloves into a sterilized glass jar...