Basics of Learning to Cook with Fresh Herbs

Learning to use fresh herbs is a great way to spice up your cooking, making it tastier and better than ever before.  There are infinite ways to use fresh herbs in your cooking. This means that you get to use your imagination to create new ways of using the herbs you choose every day!  A [...]

How to Grow Herbs in Planter Boxes

Planter boxes offer a garden plot for those who live in cramped spaces. Even residents of studio apartments can grow their own fresh herbs. If you want to give herb gardening a try, you should first consider the growing requirements of herbs. If your planter boxes can expose your herbs to the proper levels of [...]

How To Grow And Handle Fresh Herbs From Your Garden Beds Or Your Container Garden

In any recipe calling for herbs, use fresh herbs. Preparing the herbs for your dish is easy. The more tender herbs like mint, parsley, basil and cilantro can be gathered in a bowl and snipped with scissors. This is the fastest and safest way to chop the herbs. If your recipe calls for the more [...]

Herb Container Gardening in your Home

Think of how marvelous your home smells when there are wonderful kitchen aromas wafting around while you are cooking with fresh herbs. It could be your Aunt Helens recipe for marinara sauce or a well spiced Indian dish given to you by your neighbor. The key is the fresh herbs that give each dish a [...]

VIDEO Cook it! Yellowtail snapper with lemon, parsely and butter

VIDEO Cook it! Yellowtail snapper with lemon, parsely and butter Watch Chef Andrew Wicklander of Cafe Bar Lurcat make yellowtail snapper with lemon, parsley and butter. Follow his recipe using his favorite cooking tool — a sauté pan — and his favorite staples: butter and fresh herbs.

Herb Blends and How To Use Them

Sometimes you just get tired of using the same old recipe that tastes the same time after time. But we are all so busy we are looking for easy ways to spice up are repertoire. One way that many cooks forget is to use blends of herbs to add subtle flavor distinctions. The French have [...]

Produce picks by Michael Marks: Fresh herbs

Produce picks by Michael Marks: Fresh herbs Whether you’re at a farmer’s market or the supermarket, look for fresh herbs, European plums and strawberries.

Ideas On How To Use Fresh Herb Blends

Sometimes you just get tired of using the same old recipe that tastes the same time after time. But we are all so busy we are looking for easy ways to spice up are repertoire. One way that many cooks forget is to use blends of herbs to add subtle flavor distinctions. The French have [...]

What fresh herbs would go well with a chicken and lemon soup?

I am making a variation of avgolemono (Greek lemon soup,) and I am sort of new to cooking with fresh herbs. Does anyone know of one, or a combination that would go well with this soup, but not overpower it?

10 Herbs You Can Grow in Containers

Growing herbs has become a very popular hobby today. Not only are they decorative, but growing herbs yourself gives you an ongoing fresh supply of herbs for cooking.

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