Saturday, December 15, 2012

MY FAVOURITE HERB - 13 October 2012

Today is absolutely ghastly.  We’ve received about 20mm of rain today and it has just stopped briefly now…so I made a dash outside to rescue these little herbs which are now going to stay inside on my kitchen window sill:
  • Yates Dill
  • Yates Thyme
  • Yates Oregano
Centre stage is dill.  Dill is my absolute favourite herb.  We have it with fish, eggs, potatoes…Swedish dishes and Greek dishes mainly.  I lived in Sweden and to me, dill is the taste of Sweden.  Every time I eat it, I feel like I’m out in the archipelago on a boat during midsummer or I’m in a big forest picking berries and mushrooms.  It is a fantastic herb and I think it is quite under-rated in NZ.
Then we have thyme and oregano.  I just adore the aroma of these two herbs and I like to throw fresh oregano in particular into a lot of Greek salads.  We have a pizza oven, so I like to have thyme and oregano at my finger tips when I’m making a pizza sauce.  Nothing like the fresh stuff!  I grew all of these from seed under an old window and they are a tad bigger than the seeds I planted out directly in the garden.
Despite growing these herbs out in the garden too, I do like to have these at hand, as they’re all a little tricky to cut in the dark with a torch sometimes…
Well, I do hope that we get some sunshine tomorrow as I have a lot of planting to do!
 

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