Everything you Need to Grow Your Own Herbs
The best way to solve the problem of adding too much rosemary to cooking is to remove it as soon as you realize your mistake. Or you can dilute it with adding more of other flavors. Alternatively you can dilute by doubling your portions, or adding tomatoes or even dairy products like sour cream.
It can be hard to know what the best alternatives are to certain plants in our gardens and kitchens. Some plants and herbs seem irreplaceable, however let’s look at substitutes for lavender in your home.
When looking at cut and come again we have Evergreen and Herbaceous herbs to take into account. The evergreen type will take a good prune and harvest through the growing season, with a general trim before the dormant Winter. Herbaceous herbs will thrive with regular pinching out of new growth.
There are differences in height, spread and flowering from spikes to inter leaf flowers. You will find that both lavender and rosemary are a great addition to a sunny garden with free draining soil, but lavender will be used more in sweet dishes and rosemary in savory.
Gardener’s may say rosemary and thyme have similar growing needs, being drought tolerant and sun loving. Requiring adequate drainage but little else from the soil. Chefs will have an understanding of he depth of flavor from rosemary and the pine notes from both. The subtle citrus from lemon thyme.
Bouquet Garni is pronounced bow-kay Gar-nee and is French for ‘garnished-bunch’. So a posh way of saying that we are going to be using a whole bunch of herbs, rather … Continue Reading How To Make Bouquet Garni