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Posts tagged “Ingredients - Herbs”

Tell Us: Is There an Herb You Can't Stand?

We recently made a simple vegetable dish that called for a healthy amount of tarragon. The tarragon was fresh and tender and beautiful — and completely overwhelming. It made us think that, hmm, ma...

Essential Bar Ingredient: Rosemary Simple Syrup

Many cocktail recipes for the spring and summer call for the addition of simple syrup. Even better is when the recipe calls for a flavored simple syrup, such as rosemary....

Seasonal Spotlight: Cooking With Lavender

Yesterday we realized that we had given you three whole recipes with lavender recently, and that this reflects our current inclination to throw lavender into dessert left and right. This craze for lav...

Help! Is Something Wrong With Our Herbs?

We noticed these little wispy cobwebs on our oregano the other morning. We didn't see any arachnid or insect activity, so we assumed it was a little gift left by a night visitor to our container garde...

Summer Living: Cooking With Fresh Herbs

One of our favorite parts of summer is the abundance of fresh herbs--often in our own back yards! We find ourselves throwing herbs into everything we cook, relishing in their fresh green flavors. Sin...

Seasonal Spotlight: Edible Flowers

At the farmer's markets in San Francisco right now, we're seeing a lot of the salad vendors selling edible flowers mixed in the salad bags. Edible flowers are not only colorful and pretty to look at,...

LA Farmers' Market Report: Garlic Scapes and Blossoms

The Hollywood Farmers' Market is bustling even more than usual these days, as shoppers take advantage of the early summer sunshine and produce. Tucked between stands overflowing with stone fruits and ...

More Summer Cocktails

Armed with all the fresh fruits and berries that are currently in season in California, we experimented with some new cocktail recipes over the weekend....

Ingredient Spotlight: Kaffir Lime Leaves

Kaffir limes are indigenous to South Asia and have a pebbled skin and fragrant, hourglass-shaped leaves. Both the juice of the lime and the leaves are a key ingredient in Southeast Asian cuisines....

Word of Mouth: Aux Fine Herbes

Aux Fine Herbes (oh feen air'b): Translated literally from French, meaning "with fine herbs." For culinary purposes, meaning a blend of four fresh herbs, one of which is always chervil. The other thr...

Cooking with Tea: Smoky Lapsang Souchong

Walking home last night, the neighborhood was thick with the smells of barbecue. Oh, how we love that smoky smell. And we love tasting it in our food even more! Barbecue wood chips, liquid smoke, bit...

Even More Basil Cocktails: Strawberry, Lemon, and Vodka

It seems as if Elizabeth picked up on a trend this week. Basil cocktails are everywhere! Crisp lemon and tequila, strawberry puree with flavored vodka and more below. ...

Recipe: Lemon Verbena Simple Syrup

Lemon verbena is one of our favorite herbs. It's a tall, spare, long-leafed plant with slender leaves and a fragrance to die for. It's not hard to capture that fragrance in a simple syrup. ...

Recipe: Pineapple Basil Cocktail

We didn't stop with rhubarb! There was plenty of basil and the liquor was flowing easily last night, so we came up with another cocktail — this time with pineapple and a hint of lime... ...

Recipe: Rhubarb Basil Cocktail

Earlier in the week, we posted some ideas for using basil in cocktails, promising to try our own interpretations over the weekend. Well, we did some experimenting, and while our first inclination wa...

Tip: How to Use Chive Blossoms in Salads and Other Dishes

We have been admiring the beautiful chive blossoms on our rapidly growing plants, but we knew we needed to pick them off - otherwise they'll go to seed and stop growing. We pulled off a few to go with...

Recipe: Egg, Arugula, and Herb Tartine

A tartine is really just a fancy name for an open-faced sandwich. It sounds so much more elegant than sandwich, doesn't it? It seems fitting for this impromptu lunch we had this week. We were pressed ...

Straight Up: Using Shiso in Cocktails (Mojitos and More)

I’ve always loved shiso’s distinctive peppery-bright flavor. While the softly furred, frill-edged leaves have the texture, piquancy, and slight sweetness of fresh mint, their complex flavor also b...

Thursday Giveaway: Power Plant Mini from Prepara

Giveaway: Three Power Plant Minis from Prepara Find it: Buy through Prepara directly for $39.99 We have a treat of a giveaway for you today. We have been looking forward to this ever since we saw thi...

If You Grow Just One Thing This Spring... Plant Arugula

We were at the greengrocer a couple months ago, slightly nonplussed because we couldn't find arugula yet. The girl at the counter told us that she just grows it herself; even through the winter, she ...

Spring and Summer Drinks: Cocktails with Basil

Basil really does scream summer to us — mostly because it's so closely linked to tomatoes (in our minds, at least). On a trip to Sonoma Valley last year, we kept seeing basil on cocktail menus. An...

Summer Cocktail: The Cuke

When the air heats up and we're trying to stay cool as a cucumber (pun intended!) we love this cocktail. It combines cucumbers, limes, mint, and one of our favorite gins, Hendrick's....

Cooking By Feel: French Ingredients and Flavors

French cuisine is perhaps the one kind of cooking where almost all of us feel uncomfortable off-roading it without a recipe. Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and other chefs of the last fifty years have pu...

Gardening Questions for Jennifer: How Can I Plant a Variety of Herbs and Vegetables in a Container Garden?

We asked for gardening questions for kitchen gardening expert Jennifer Bartley. Here's an answer to two of your questions. Susmita asks: I have always had a brown thumb, but I would like to grow so...

Garden Spotlight: Chives

Chives are one of the easiest, prettiest things to grow straight off in the garden. They are splendid in containers, and they give some beautiful color - as well as delicious eating, of course. ...