One main fact of having tasty delicious food is using herbs; you can buy them in the supermarket either fresh, as a paste or dried. I prefer fresh and love to use them straight out of my garden. If you don’t have your own garden, you can still grow your own herbs in a pot, maybe on the kitchen windowsill close to where you will use them…
Easy herbs to grow are parsley, basil, chives, rosemary, sage and thyme.
They all have very distinctive flavors and go with a great range of foods.
Sage is very delicious tossed and fried in some olive oil till it goes crisp and stirred into some freshly cooked pasta. Serve it with a generous serving of salad or veggies.
Basil is great in any tomato dish but not limited to only that. You can also make a fantastic pesto out of lots of basil, lemon juice, salt and pine nuts. Chop it all very finely in a food processor and serve with pasta.
You can see I really like the Mediterranean kitchen.
Rosemary is a must on lamb or even pork….
Herbs are very easy to grow; start small and don’t overfeed them with manure, they will grow very fast but loose flavor if you give them too much fertilizer.
All the instructions will be on the back of the seed packet but just make sure you water them well, especially if you are growing them in a pot, where water dries out faster. If your herbs are growing quicker then you can use them, you can wash them; hang them upside down in a shady spot on a hot day and let them dry out completely before making them into fine powder in-between your fingers for later use. They also make a great gift for friends if you present them in a nice jar…
The most important thing is to experiment with different herbs, try new recipes and not give up if your herbs didn’t survive the first time around.
Enjoy the wonderful varieties of herbs
No comments:
Post a Comment