One of my favorite herbs is basil. It's plentiful right now. It's easy to grow and there are many different varieties. The one I like the most is the giant Italian Basil. I've also grown lemon basil, purple basil, genovese, pistou (really tiny leaves in a shorter, bushy plant), and cinnamon. They all have slightly different taste.
We had a customer who would get lots of basil every week. I asked her what she did with it. She told me that she tied the stems together and hung each bunch by a curtain rod in every room of her house. Pass the tomatoes and mozzarella, please!
I like to use basil in sauces, ratatouille, and even jelly. What do you like to use basil in?
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Caprese Salad! Yummy! Oh, and pesto.
ReplyDeleteOh my, basil is also my favourite herb and what a goodie it is. I grew so much of it last year that I still have plenty left in the freezer. I freeze it obviously. I wash it and spin it in the salad spinner and I measure 4 pack cups of leaves and add a cup of extra virgin oil and put it through the food processor and freeze as a pesto base. I put it in plastic containers that are freezer friendly.
ReplyDeleteI make a lots of pesto. I use pesto sauce in spaghetti, in Chicken pesto pizza, on crackers even on chicken wraps. I LOVE pesto but I don't use pine nuts anymore because of a bad reaction I had with my taste bud but that's another story. I use sunflower seeds instead.
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That should be 4 cups of packed leaves JB
ReplyDeletei like it in spaghetti sauces and on pizza. :)
ReplyDeleteI grew some lemon basil last year, and though I love lemon flavour and love basil flavour, I wasn't keen on the two mingled. I have (just) basil this year - mostly, it's been used in sauces, but the smell of it in the greenhouse is simply wonderful. It's worth growing just for that!
ReplyDeleteI'm learning from all the other ideas on here :)
Hi there, I too have grown to love basil-something I acquired a taste for in the last 10 yrs or so. I love making pesto and freezing it but also using it in Quinoa salads or even just with tomatoes. Have a great weekend.
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I've never grown herbs, but think I might give it a try next summer!!! Basil in tomato sauce....on spaghetti...yum!!!
ReplyDeleteI like it in sauce and pizza. Since I am a total ding-dong, I didn't grow any this summer, like I always have!
ReplyDeleteGrew it for the first time this year. It went crazy & I have lots left over. Does anybody know how to dry it? If I could learn how, I have so much this year I may never have to buy it again...LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks for the drying advise Patrice :o) I'm trying the pesto ideas from above too.
DeleteNothing, but I do recognize it when I see it. A lot of people say it's easy to grow.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there were so many varieties.
Have a great weekend, Patrice!
I use it in loads of soups, stews and nearly everything Italian. But I never heard of hanging it near the windows...might have to consider this one.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE pesto and that's where my basil goes. Unfortunately, it's gone for this season so I've got basil envy while visiting here -LOL-.
ReplyDeletemy mom and stepdad grew lemon basil this year so we've been eating it with everything!
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