A few weeks ago, we bought a little purple basil plant at the farmer's market. It has been happily sitting on our step since then and tonight I added it to my pasta sauce. Yum! At the last minute, I garnished everyone's plate with a little bit of the basil and it really added something special. I think that I am going to move the basil to my kitchen counter so that I can be sure to use it more frequently. I'm also going to keep an eye out for some cilantro and flat leaf parsley to round out my kitchen herb garden! I think that they will really add something to my cooking that my jars of dried herbs don't.
Do you use fresh herbs in your kitchen?
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Yes, I'm really enjoying my new backdoor herb garden. If you buy little pots of chives, parsley and rosemary, they'll grow very nicely. Cilantro is very easy to grow from seed -- and then it keeps coming up each year from the seeds the plants produced the year before. Last year I bought some southeast Asian herbs, and enjoyed putting them in stirfries and soups.
I hope to someday have a real garden like you do, but this year was not the time. It will be nice to have some of these things come up year after year!
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