hi and welcome to healthy inspirations i'm your host lindsay smith as always the goal of this show is to encourage and inspire you to take charge of your life and your health say we have a very special guest and healthy inspiration her name's ruthie bosco with the tara essential oils earth is also the co author of a cookbook called every day cooking with essential oils today were these going to show us the power of essential oils and also do a little demonstration on how essential oils can be used in everyday cooking so welcome ruthie thank you and say thank you for having me yeah i'm so excited i walked in and the first thing i noticed was the smell it smell so good and everyone was commenting on the so tell me a little bit about essential oils in general i know we have a lot of information packed into this session but just give me kind of an overview of them try essential oils they are everywhere there are different grades the most important thing to know about essential oils since they're  really want them for health benefits ok there are synthetic grade essential oils that are used in certain hair care products shampoos that kind of thing food grade which would be something to flavor foods that you would get at the supermarket extracts and whatnot but then there's a therapeutic grade ok but there are no standards on the word therapeutic so when they these oils essential oils are steam distilled or cold pressed from steam distilled from parts of a plant to collect the essential oil which is the defense mechanism of the plant to keep it protected from insects and disease and for six thousand years aroma therapy also where the sense of smell is so that there is a strong connection between emotional health and essential oils yet as well as physical make the porton thing is it's very sensible and it's been used for so many years we're now getting back into the natural is natural things and everybody's really getting on board with trying to use the most natural things possible there's nothing more natural than an essential oil now one of the things that i see essential oils everywhere being in the health industry i mean people are always constantly talking about them or doing different things so what makes the essential oils that you use really different from a lot of the other brands out there because i see them i mean you can literally get us on shore oil a lot of places you can you can it's so important if you're going to cook with them to use the purest oil available synthetics in an oil can actually be harmful so the main thing with terror which means gift of the earth is its purity ok there's the oils are collected from plants native to their habitat for instance the lavender is only  llected from northern france only the lavender heads organic lavender heads are used with the word therapeutic there could be maybe pesticides were on that plant before they were steam distilled there could be weeds in with that stems not with dough terror they have taken it to a level which they call it's a trademark certified pure therapeutic grade there is nothing like that on the market today but there's a tear and that's the only one  i will cook with that's what the cookbook is based on using these oils and only these boils so i don't even know you could cook with essential oil pretty much until i met you and you have a whole book with recipes and i know you're going to show us something later so how did you get into that with cooking with essential oils well started just dropping it in food for flavor and cup a few friends and i wrote together for lunches to learn about this company were all three involved in the company and we started dropping  essential oils in the food for flavor and that's basically what you want out of a good recipe is flavor and they enhance the flavor of the food with one or two drops per recipe ok you don't need a lot in fact oregano is so strong you should put it in with a toothpick because it's extremely powerful there are thirty seven currently thirty seven single oils and one thousand blends and i know you said when i've talked to you before you said that some of them are seasonal is that correct or a certain times they can only get certain things well for instance rose is only available to consultants they don't that's not even available to the mass public because it's so hard to get meat you need so many rose petals to produce one drop twelve thousand five hundred i think it is it's it's very expensive and it is the price is very you can get a bottle of lemon retail if you're putting that in your water every day to help cleanse your body and i put it you absolutely can it's also for flavor and they are that is called press from the rind of italian lemons wow and so and then there also are some some oils that are sold in a five mill later bottle which is one hundred drops depends on the oil and what it is and they range from that's good thirteen dollars to hundred fifteen dollars a bottle ok it depends on how  where it comes from how hard it is to distill and how much product it takes to make that oil this lemon was great it's very good it's very refreshing i'm a big lemon water person i'm always encouraging my clients and even in my own life drinking warm lemon water to help kind of cleanse your system in the morning so this is a great this is great for and on the go i would see you know if you don't have fresh lemons available right you know to travel well the potency you would need squeeze about twenty six lemons in your water to get a drop of a drop but about lemon oil so you're getting a powerful cleansing benefit with that lemon is also very good just in the morning just as an aroma therapy just breathing it with that on the daily basis so it's a nice solution so what are some of the ones for anxiety and depression for example any of the citrus oils there's a god orange a lemon grapefruit line citrus is very good for body so it's very relaxing it's also amazing if you have a kitchen burn just to put that straight lavender oil on it there are many many uses for these oils many cross over and do the same thing but they they have many many benefits each oil in itself i think that's one of the most amazing things i mean we could probably talk all day about the benefits of different essential oils but even just using them in your own life i know teacher e o has been my savior for everything cleaning for brushing my teeth for i mean literally put it on everything and it's i've seen such huge benefits from it  a major major seller for them because they have essential oils in them on guard is a blend of cinnamon cloves eucalyptus rosemary and while the one that has been proven to kill marcel ninety percent effective every day which is a great time of year right now as well as little family what myself and my family that's what we do every day diffuse it in their home to feel you know germs in the air and that's a wonderful product wonderful like there's a deep blue which is great for pain and this also comes in i rob in the two and a roll on but i know i have often rubbed them in my hand and then operate them in a spot and it's good for cold and flu mist ones like one hand and frankincense on the other and just breathing it and it's and i know you have a personal story of using the essential oils well i did in high school do you want to share a little bit of so so many years ago i used to wear patchouli every day just liking the scent of it oh man you know as i started learning about it realized it had very relaxing and calming benefits to it i just recently about fourteen months ago got involved and so this company and i have learned so much and have seen so many wonderful things and people with peoples health and family and friends with the new stuff and yeah that's great so yeah this is wonderful information we're actually going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back we're going to cook up something 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when the tomatoes are in season it's a tomato and bread salad it's means bread in the small basket so it's any kind of a stale bread that you have you of oil salt and pepper and you just toss it together and let the the flavors and all the little and we're going to use face the essential oil and one thing when you are cooking with essential oils it's important to always put the oil into another what ingredient in a recipe so that it disperses evenly it's important to always use glass plastic can react with the essential oils it can absorb into the plastic which you you said you have to diffuse the the oil so if we have so say for example you want to saute something and i want to use the base or what i saw when i put a little bowl like this with all of oil and then a drop of the bass all get it nuts and they're all recipes that we used to surf with our families we added oils to or made specifically for the cold and along with that there are helpful hints on cooking in general in the back sixteen pages bake with the essential oils as well and if you're not if it's a recipe that you're not heating you're actually getting the therapeutic benefits of the oil ok they lose their potency as far as therapeutically when they're heated but you still get the flavor that when the lemon things that i encourage people about cooking is that you really you have to charge recipes multiple times and you have to put your own flair on it so just because a recipe is very short in the directions you know you really have to go off your personal taste preferences right and just play around with that just like as if that recipe says use a small red oing in that's very strong i guess i should've used a bigger bowl that use your judgment and to taste and always taste food and recipe yes now the well that's what i was saying well that's one of the one of my also my little short the that's one of my little tips to interest to always try a recipe before you serve it so many people don't try arrest people for they search through and sometimes you have to tweak things you need to add more spices you know doll it down a little bit or bring it the flavor up a little bit and you can do  drops of base so it's very concentrated so so do you know how many basal leaves it probably takes to get that i don't know that answer but i would think they were quite a lot because you were saying put the equal amount even if it's a balsamic vinegar i like the glaze i just think the glaze i like how it sticks to everything definitely should a product make a ball and i'm going to put the salt and pepper right into the cooking but any cooking fresh ingredients things that are in season cook like and you won't always be happy with your with your recipes i love that you said seasonal eating i have a new book coming out on well as you know  am now it's called the blessed cleanser to eat mind body spirit guide to greater health and happiness and it's all about seasonal eating we're very big into seasonal eating eating with the seasons because i mean like you said you get gritty of that are fresh that tastes you know like there's nothing like a tomato in season and there's nothing that's healthiest in the way to eat it's the healthiest there's so much emphasis right now on the mediterranean diet this salad here is is key to a mediterranean diet now just picture ago in the more rural areas of italy because it was using bread rather than disposing of it to actually use the bread yeah and it's bits are a popular salad everywhere and it's and i think that's that's a great point you know reusing stuff that we waste so much food it's crazy how much food we waste in the united states we could actually feed everyone like a million times it's crazy the statistics you have to look it up i don't know them off the top of my head but i was shocked yeah and seeing that so so yeah using reusing your recipe or reusing your ingredients in your house or using the do bread to make it good yeah and it's still and that's the thing to the shelf life of things is usually a lot longer than what people say and so the bread even though it's stale doesn't necessarily mean it's bad obviously if it's it and capers this is also a salad that you can change up you can put all of senate you can put in anything you want the idea is definitely the tomato based so dry bread combination is that even this i don't even probably throw it they're in for a treat yeah now what about the essential oils not only in here but what some of the other recipes that you have you said definitely put the liquid ingredients put them with the liquid so if you're doing a  bread or something you have the eggs correct what are some other eggs milk whatever ingredient what kind of what ingredient what are some of the other little tricks of the trade that you may have up your sleeve well let's  one of the things that people are surprised is that you can cope with lavender lavender there's a really in there for shortbread cookies with a lavender and lavenders really great in a salad as well it gives it delicious i can't wait to try for you and you said i know when we talked on the phone you were like well you have lunch today so what are some of the main cooking oils and i don't think we want to over that so there's the lemon we know lavender wild ornge we have seventeen different oils in that coke zero wow ok so they're all listed there and there's those there's a page in the front that shows what other properties they have as well for instance lavender oils to cope with and again you only need one or two drops yeah so this is great so where can people find this cookbook again at a website every day cooking with essential oils dot com it's thirteen ninety five  everyone needs a copy of this i need to talk to you about some of these oils because they're just awesome and where can people connect with you of maybe about to terra central oils cooking i know you do some cooking demos too yes i'll be at the home show on being on the show to say i cannot wait to eat the salad it looks delicious thank you and so i appreciate it so thank you for tuning in to healthy inspirations as always the goal of this show is to encourage and inspire individuals to take action in their life and their health if you know of any local inspirations that you think would be a good fit for the show please email me at info at food new girl dot com thanks again for tuning in and we'll see you next time