Blue moon ish
Starter: pansy flowers (taste slightly mild, slightly bitter)
Main: calendula bath, sleepy tea of hop, lime and camomile blossom
Sometimes you can’t pick what you find. You might spot a perfect giant puffball 2m out of reach, return often and just watch it decompose. On a blue moon, use some herbs saved and dried from another time, add them to hot water and drink the infusion or steep yourself in them. I love to bathe in and drink the same infusion- like a double extraction of the herb. If you’re feeling pagan, a full moon ritual like this is a really way to mark time.
You can make your own fizzy bath bomb by mixing a cup of bicarb, half of that in citric acid, then half of that in cornflour and epson salt. Mix the drys and then the wets- a small amount of oil you like on your skin with any essential oil. Bind, adding a tiny drop of 2 of water til you have a wet sand texture and clump into a mould, adding in any of your dried flowers. They will fizz a little, but eventually set. Put into a hot bath or under a running tap and the water will become creamy and nourishing. Add as much as you like, stew it a while, like tea. If stewing yourself in the flowers makes cleanup hard, just run a sieve around a few times like fishing in a pool or pond.