Essentially, you can think of a fresh herb as a fresh seasoning. This makes herbs distinctly different from vegetables, which are used to add sustenance and substance.While fresh herbs are usually green; however, there are roughly 100 different herbs in the world and some color variations, ...
Fresh herbs add depth to recipes when added in the beginning and brightness at the end. They add color to otherwise drab-looking pasta, and can be used as a sauce for everything from grains to meat and veggies – pesto or chimichurri, anyone? As beautiful as herbs are, they don’t las...
Fresh herbs are popping up all over the place these days, and I LOVE it! Herbs are beautiful, aromatic, and they even have medicinal, healing qualities. I have a small patch of mint that is growing like crazy in my backyard and I use it for tea all the time. The great thing about ...
How to dry fresh herbsOffers a tip on how to dry fresh herbs harvested from one's garden. Hanging; Air-drying herbs on a window screen.Sunset
We have four easy and popular techniques to share for preserving your freshly harvested, cleaned, and dried fresh herbs. All have their advantages in the home kitchen and elsewhere in your household, depending on your intended culinary applications and other uses. ...
have to be planted once and others will die back (or die all together) at the end of the season, it’s hard to completely eliminate the need to ever buy fresh herbs from the grocery store again. But as you can see, the savings can really add up no matter how often you use them!
Fresh herbs aren’t always the easiest to store. They tend to spoil, wilt and turn into a brown mush in just a couple days of getting them home. Considering how much I use them in my kitchen, I feel like I have tried everything under the sun to extend the life of my fresh herbs...
Below are some tips to help you enjoy the flavor of the most commonly used herbs in recipes. And always remember, when adding fresh herbs to recipes, a general guideline to follow is to use three times as much as you would use of a dried herb. ...
Don’t forget to change out the water about every 4-5 days as it becomes murky and dirty. Carrot Storage Tip Pro tip: If your carrots come with the greens still attached, trim them and store them in the fridge like you would other fresh herbs (wrapped in a damp paper towel in the ...
Preparing Fresh Thyme for Cooking Many recipes using thyme will ask for it in sprigs – the whole form. Probably the easiest way to describe a sprig is a length of stem that contains a number of side branches. As in the recipe below, whole sprigs can be used during cooking and then ...