While developing our Face Oil and Body Butter, we were looking for an ingredient that would not only create serious glow power, but also leave your skin feeling soothed, healed, and wildly happy. And that’s how Calendula made the cut, the ingredient also known as pot marigold. Native to the Mediterraneand, this herbaceous plant has…
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After months of hiding out at home and merry making for the holidays, we are all about green juice for January. We tailored this recipe to be an ultra hydrating juice for recovery from late nights or when you’re dragging and simply need a boost. Not just good for you, this detoxifying and restorative juice…
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We like to think of antioxidants as nature’s superheroes, here to protect us from the bad guys known as free radicals. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, and free radicals, well, they’ve been known to cause all sorts of damage. Kind of a dramatic set up, but really, that’s the tension that exists between the two warring…
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If you haven’t yet noticed, we have a deep love of ginger! We use it in Mab Tabs, make teas with it, add it to soups, spice cocktails with it, and last but not least, we put loads of it in baked goods. These cookies are an ode to ginger in all its spicy goodness.…
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For many of us, the coming weeks can be the busiest of the year. With the combination of long to-do lists and the sweet promise of holiday baking ahead 😉, we thought an easy and satisfyingly light meal-in-a-blender smoothie was just the recipe we needed this week. This smoothie’s star is the Fuyu persimmon, which…
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Our pros/cons list when it comes to winter looks something like this: For pros, there’s nothing like a cozy night in, that first snowfall and an herb-spiked hot drink. The cons? It’s dark before dinner, that snowfall has to get shoveled, and probably the most uncomfortable of all, dealing with chronically dry, unhappy winter skin. …
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There’s really not a more cozy beverage than a hot apple cider. The spicy-sweet scent of cinnamon, clove, and apple wafting off the stove is a kind of nostalgic aromatherapy. In this recipe, we’ve built a spiced apple cider base with three optional add-ons that give it an herbal and boozy kick. We’ve made it…
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Mab & Stoke was inspired by a personal discovery about the power of plants to soothe and heal our bodies. For me, there was one juice – my daily green juice – that lit the match. I started making it about three years ago to help reduce pain and inflammation in my back, and have…
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We decided to cook up something devilishly decadent for Halloween, and this Pumpkin Pot de Creme seriously delivered. We gave it a Mab & Stoke twist with antioxidant rich (and seasonally appropriate) pumpkin and an herbal boost of Mab Tabs. It’s like pumpkin pie in a jar of silky custard goodness. Herbal infused foods tend…
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The pomegranate is an undeniably alluring fruit. While peeling away its tough leathery skin can take some patience, the effort is well rewarded with the fruit’s jewel-like ruby red seeds. The pomegranate appears in ancient Greek mythology cultivated for thousands of years. Today it is prised for its vitamin and antioxidant-rich arils that boast benefits…
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