Herb Recipes
Using Herbs in Leftovers
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Knowing how to cook with herbs can be a life saver when dealing with leftovers. What do I mean? Here’s a never-fail way that garlic and ginger can make a incredible meal out of any leftover meat (uncooked leftover meat usually, but you can also flash fry cooked meat). It’s an easy way to make [...]
Most Popular Culinary Herbs in the Kitchen
Friday, April 21st, 2006In the herb garden we had a discussion about what we thought the most popular culinary herbs were. Some guesses included parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (based on the song, I suppose!). I’ve done some research into the popularity of various herbs and have some findings to report.
According to a recent poll, the herb with the [...]
Culinary Herbs Defined - History of cooking with herbs
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006The topic came up in the garden of what exactly is meant by the term “Culinary Herb“. If you look at the wikipedia entry on Herb, it tells us that there are 2 types of usage of herbs - medicinal and culinary. It says that a medicinal herb may be a shrub or other woody plant [...]
A Dinner of Herbs
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006Herb Garden afficionadoes like myself may be shocked to learn that heavy use of herbs was considered by some to be a poor thing. How can that be? Weren’t herbs used by the rich in their cooking? I always thought so.
But if you look at today’s reading passage below, you’ll see that some considered the [...]
Culinary Herbs from Mother’s Herb Garden
Monday, April 17th, 2006I’m planting away like mad this season: Mint, Sage, Parsley, Corriander, lemon grass, marjoram, thyme are some of the new plants in my culinary herb bed. I’m mostly sorting by cooking usage and color in my garden.
Later in the season, I hope to shift my focus to cooking with these herbs. I can’t wait for the flavors [...]
Herb Cooking - Using Herbs for Garnishes
Sunday, April 16th, 2006In our house, we dress the sides of plates with sprigs of rosemary. What a wonderful smell!
HERBS AS GARNISHES
As garnishes several of the culinary herbs are especially valuable. This is particularly true of parsley, which is probably more widely used than any other plant, its only close rivals being watercress and lettuce, which, however, are [...]