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| pretty blue flowers of the sage |
One of the joys I get from my French home is the herb garden. I just love picking and cooking with fresh herbs, it makes me feel quite bucolic when I go round snipping the different plants and dodging the bees.
Yesterday I made a sardine bruschetta with onion marmalade and a garlicky herb dressing. The recipe called for a handful of parsley but both my parsley plants are looking rather sparse at the moment so I used a mixture of sage, chives, tarragon, lemon balm and lemon thyme. It worked fine for the dressing.
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| spearmint grows everywhere |
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| thyme |
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Today I picked some chive flowers to sprinkle over our salad lunch. It gives the salad a slight oniony flavour and looks pretty too.
I pick sage every day and drink sage tea with lemon,i've never used it for cooking but i know a lot of people do.
ReplyDeleteI've never tried sage tea, I'll have to give it a go.
DeleteI love picking fresh herbs from the garden, my husband pruned my rosemary to death so I've had to start a new one this year, it's the herb I use the most. My sage was looking straggly so I got a new one of those too.
ReplyDeleteWe've got three massive rosemary bushes, just can't stop them from growing here.
DeleteHow pretty! And tasty too, I'll bet. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're right, pretty and tasty.
DeleteIt all look, and sounds delicious, but my husband would think I was trying to poison him if I served up such tasty fare !
ReplyDeletePaul complains when I overdose on thyme, I love it and he doesn't.
DeleteWe had a chicken and leek pie from Marks. I heated it up.
ReplyDeleteYou could have sprinkled some dandelion over it...
DeleteLovely photos. I also grow these herbs in pots on my balcony, but I never thought of using chive flowers in salads; what a pretty idea, Sue!
ReplyDeleteGreetings Maria x
I'm just waiting for the warmer weather so I can plant some basil.
DeleteIt certainly is delightful to pick at least some food ingredients from one's own garden. It helps to keep us in better touch with The Earth.
ReplyDeletePaul grows it, I pick it.
DeleteMy chives are up but not flowering yet. Thanks for the tip - I will be snipping the flowers as soon as they appear.
ReplyDeleteThey look pretty on salads.
DeleteI even love going through a garden centre / greenhouse and rubbing the various leaves of herbs to get an idea of what they would smell like. There are so many kinds of mint, for example!-Jenn
ReplyDeleteOur mint pops up everywhere, I should have kept it confined to a pot. We also have wild mint growing in the 'lawn'.
DeleteI grow quite a few herbs, but use very few. Rosemary gets regular use, as does Parsley, but not much else. At present I'm picking big bunches of Mint for drying.
ReplyDeleteBasil and thyme are my other two favourites.
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