Using Herbs

RCS Posts:using Herbs You can benefit by using herbs and condiments to enhance the flavor of fruits, cheeses, and meats.

 

                Use herbs to provide new, interesting, and delicious flavors to foods. When you find yourself in position to do so, do give it a try. Herbs add rare and valuable nutrients to your dining. The savor they add can amaze. Below are some ways some herbs have been successfully matched with specific foods. also below are suggestions to help you get started.

Experiment with the following combinations:

Beef: basil leaves, mustard, black pepper, bay leaves, chives, garlic, red chilies, cumin, marjoram, savory, horseradish with fatty roasts .....

Lamb: rosemary, garlic, marjoram, oregano, mint .....

Pork: coriander, cumin, garlic, ginger, savory, thyme, cloves with ham .....

Cheese: basil, chervil, curry, dill, fennel, garlic, marjoram, parsley .....

Fruit: anise, cinnamon, coriander, cloves, verbena, mint, rose, geranium, sweet cicely, fennel .....

 

Suggestions:

~ It is often good to begin with a recipe.

~ Herbs are often potent, they can be costly; use them sparingly, at first.

~Experiment with one herb at a time and on yourself before offering your creation to a friend.

~ Buy herbs one at a time and try them one at a time.

~ Make little, or big, slits in your roast and put selected herbs into those slits to cook.

~ Start with herbs mentioned most often here and elsewhere.

Bon appetit!

                                                            RCS

Woman and Girl

RCS Posts:Understanding a Memory

 

                 She was young, about his age. She was speaking with an older woman she obviously cared for, but she was saying with some vehemence, "You just don't care."

                The older woman seemed truly fond of the girl. Though she may have felt some hurt at the girl's words, she answered in kindly tones. He remembered what she said. She had said, "I have come to see that  many things do not matter much, and that most things don't matter at all."

 

                The girl answered, still with some feeling, "You don't care about anything."

                The woman answered, a bit as though she were she were speaking to herself as much as to the girl, "I once knew an old gentleman who did not believe in"things."

                After a few seconds the older woman continued,"Your feelings matter to me very much, but I am not responsible for them."

                                                        

                                                            RCS