Favorite Herb?

Favorite Herb? 🌿


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His favorite herb is probably bae-sil! 😆

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You never addes basil on top of a plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce?!
I don't use basil, period, but I'll get some and try it out. It's not that I don't like it but rather being a noob when it comes to herbs.
 
Herb lovers, I urge you to make this salsa verde. It's the most delicious thing ever, as a dip for bread or an accompaniment for seafood.
(Not my recipe, it's from a sadly defunct UK restuarant called Fishworks that used to serve it with bread for free at the start of every meal.)

Tarragon
Basil
Mint
Parsley (a big handful of each fresh herb)
garlic (1 clove)
anchovy fillets (4)
Capers (1 tablespoon)
Olive oil (up to 250 ml / half pint)
Juice of 1 lemon

Blend everything to a coarse paste with a little of the oil. Stir in the lemon juice and more oil until it's a nice consistency for dipping.
 
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For food, Basil, big fan of pad gaprow (Thai dish)

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For drinks, mint
Lived of this dish for the best part of ten years.

The food stall next to Seven Eleven where I lived made the best food I've ever had the pleasure of eating
 
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Where all my dill weeds at?
Dill weed is so good.

Roasted carrots, tartar sauce, and seared fish to name a few uses.

I love it.

Tarragon is still the king, though.
 
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My name has to do with my passion for cooking. There are so many nice herbs that can add a lot of flavor a dish, hard to pick just 1.

I'll mention a few not listed with very distinct flavors:
  • Thai basil (add a few cut leaves on your green curry)
  • Shiso (great in fish/shrimp/crab sushi rolls, can be very easily grown in garden or a box on your balcony)
  • Vietnamese koriander/daun kesum (essential for laksa, a rich curry shrimp noodle soup)
  • Methi (the leaves of fenugreek plant, usually sold dried, great and I'd say essential for dishes like dal tarka and butter chicken/makhani)
All of these I can find in the Asian supermarket. It's just that they're quite pricey, so I tend to grow them on my balcony (except for the methi).
 
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I'm going to keep pronouncing it "herb" (that's right. with the hard H) You know why? Because Nickelodeon was playing WKRP in Cincinnati during Nick At Nite and had a character named Herb Tarlek. This also coincided with when I started emulating games at 7 or 8 and I was playing 🪱:lollipop_fire:Breath of Fire:lollipop_fire:🐲 which had a healing item called a "herb". Also weird item names like "B.Stn" and "Mrbl1".

I voted for cilantro. I have some growing in the back yard, I think.
 
I'm quite a fan of coriander.

Isn't tarragon just a poor man's oregano?

I'm going to keep pronouncing it "herb" (that's right. with the hard H) You know why? Because Nickelodeon was playing WKRP in Cincinnati during Nick At Nite and had a character named Herb Tarlek. This also coincided with when I started emulating games at 7 or 8 and I was playing 🪱:lollipop_fire:Breath of Fire:lollipop_fire:🐲 which had a healing item called a "herb". Also weird item names like "B.Stn" and "Mrbl1".

I voted for cilantro. I have some growing in the back yard, I think.
If I pronounced the Swedish word for herb with a hard H then it would sound like 'hurt'.
 
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