Focus on Herbs : Rosemary

I'm a Rosemary addict.....i can't walk past one without having a feel and a snifflovely herb ...that and southernwood

 

Another use for rosemary:
Open a bottle of red wine and plunge a stalk of rosemary into it. Leave it to infuse for a couple of hours, then serve.

 

Off to the herb garden then....

 

If you cut a sprig of some rosemary give it a rub,and put it in vegetable oil. Leave it for a couple of weeks let the flavours of the rosemary infuse in to the oil. Then next time you come to cooking roasties use the oil, works a treat at getting a nice light hint of rosemary infused in to the roasties.

You can use the principle of the idea for any herb really.

 

Nice nice post, many thanks. Going to get into growing Herbs.

 

I love Rosemary and funnily enough so does our little cat!

I spotted some flowers on my new plant I bought at the local garden centre the other week this one is Rosmarinus officinalis 'Miss Jessopp's Upright'



But I recently bought two small plants for a £1 each of 'Roman Beauty' & 'Ginger' which I think is 'Green Ginger' and it smells lovely

 

Lots of ideas on veggie Rosemary use... Particularly fond of the Camembert one, and will try Rosemary bread soon (how much Rosemary per 500g of flour? White, wholemeal, or 2/3 1/3 mix - attractively called "grey" here?).

If you use lentils and pulses, Rosemary goes really well. In a lentil loaf, mixed bean salad (add chopped marjoram, Rosemary and parsley with diced onions to the cooked beans whilst they are still hot, along with a little olive oil. Stir, sniff, stir again, and wait (if you can!) until cool!