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Recipes - Cooking and Enjoying the Herbs You Grow in the Garden
Fresh herbs are easy to grow and delicious to use in home cooking. Here are tips for growing, harvesting, preserving and best of all, recipes for cooking with the herbs your grow in your home garden.
Pairing and Combining Your Fresh Grown Herbs with Food
When cooking with the fresh herbs you grow, the only rule is to please yourself and your guests. The following table lists flavorful herb and food combinations and herb substitutions, if you should find yourself suddenly out of your favorite herb. Use it to experiment and learn which herbal flavors you enjoy most.
20 Herbs and Spices to Keep in the Kitchen
These 20 herbs and spices, chosen by our Guide to Home Cooking, should get you started on a wide variety of recipes and seasonings.
Herb Substitution Chart
What do you do when you don't have any chervil on hand. Well, parsley will do, in a pinch. Here's a nice chart of herbs to swap out when you're in the middle of cooking and missing an ingredient.
Dried Herbs - Getting the Most Flavor
We can't always go out to our gardens and clip some fresh basil, but we can dry our harvest to savor later. Here are some tips for using dried herbs and getting the most flavor from them.