Hemp Seeds are Healthy in Your Food!
You won’t get high off hemp seeds. We promise! What you will get is a healthy helping of essential fatty acids, lots of protein, and a nearly complete set of amino acids. You might also notice your brain working a little smarter, and your immune system a little stronger. About 80% of hemp seeds’ chemical [...]
Spice Things up With Organic Cayenne Pepper
Cayenne pepper has a long history of not only spicing up delicious dishes, but of providing powerful therapeutic benefits. It’s a hardy plant which can grow in a variety of regions—even in temperate climates, where winter frosts things over for several months—but it prefers warmth and tropical or sub-tropical locations. Its name comes from the [...]
Try Serving Yerba Mate Over Coffee This Holiday! Be Different!
Florida Herb House brand Yerba Mate is cold stored in our climate controlled, light controlled, dehumidified rooms for only the best in Yerba Mate potency, purity and overall medicinal qualities. Don’t settle for lesser quality! Yerba mate was discovered centuries ago by the indigenous people in South America and has been revered as the “drink [...]
Those Fabulous Little Fennel Seeds
Fennel seeds are a popular seasoning for a variety of dishes. You’ll find them flavoring pickles, meat, fish, seafood, herb-baked bread and more. But fennel seeds have a long and storied history. They were prized for their health benefits throughout ancient times. Monks in the Middle Ages kept plots of fennel in their medicinal gardens. [...]
Mustard Seeds Are Like Little Apples – Well Maybe Not
Mustard seeds are a little like apples. Okay, so they’re a lot smaller and taste nothing like a sweet, crisp fruit, but just as apples come in a variety of colors and tastes, so do mustard seeds. Just as a green apple will taste tarter than a red one, a dark mustard seed will have [...]
Let Florida Herb House Spice Up Your Life!
Did you know that spices lose their flavor over time when exposed to heat, light, air & humidity? These are natural enemies of spices and herbs. They rob the spice of flavor by destroying the precious volatile oils that are within the spice. Organic Italian Spices In large scale commercial processing, the process of [...]
Cooking With Caribbean Spices!
With Wednesday upon us and after a weekend of sampling some of the finest Caribbean style jerk chicken and lime chicken that I have ever tasted, we figure it is a great time to talk about some of the most widely used Caribbean spices and the secrets to making the whole dish come together While [...]
Parsley – The Secret To Amazing Growth!
Welcome to the official Florida Herb House spice blog folks! As I was watering our plants today I looked over and noted our little parsley plant growing so lush and green! So I figure why not share a pic with the online world! We have been growing curly leaf parsley for a long time and [...]
The Wonderful World of Kitchen Spices!
Hello everyone and welcome to our new blog for 2012! Come join us to learn all about the world of spices! My name is Lee and I will be your host here at the Florida Herb House official Kitchen Spice Blog! Inside we will be taking a fun look at the amazing world of spices [...]
Kitchen Spice Blog





