herbs
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You Should Build an Herb Spiral for Your Garden
Every home should have an herb garden. Access to fresh herbs, all the time, will fundamentally change the way you cook and eat at home. While you can buy fresh herbs, they’re expensive, and you have to buy them by the bunch, when you might only need a little. But if there’s fresh dill outside,…
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Do Bay Leaves Even Do Anything?
Bay leaves are the dryer sheets of the kitchen. I know that they do something, I’m just not entirely sure what it is, and I don’t really miss them when I run out.
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You Need to Sizzle Some Onions
Caramelised onions are the most famous type of cooked onion. This makes sense, because they taste good. But there is a whole spectrum of cooked onion flavours to enjoy. Gently baked, quickly sautéed, even burnt — each preparation method has something to offer. If you haven’t tried sizzled onions, you owe it to yourself to…
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How to Keep Leftover Pesto Looking Fresh and Green
Pesto, made with pine nuts and Italian cheese, is not a cheap sauce, mainly because of those pine nuts. It makes sense then, that one should want their pesto to look as good as it tastes, even if it’s been sitting in the fridge for a few days. The problem, though, is oxygen.