Text 26440, 75 rader
Skriven 2009-07-22 16:58:58 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 26256 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
Ärende: good eats!
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Hi Bob,

 BG>  Hi Ruth
 BG>  Been a while.

 RH> That it has.  If you didn't know  already, Steve is now retired from
 RH> the Army after 26 years.  We're living in Wake Forest, NC; he will be a
 RH> student at the seminary beginning next month.

 BG>  NC is nice, not Hawaii but nice.

The cost of living is better here tho.  We've moved further inland; when
we were in Savannah, we were about half an hour from the beach.  Here
we're about 3-4 (depending on which beach you want) hours away. No
avocado tree in the back yard like we had in HI--sigh!


 BG>  Otherwise we are several weeks away here.  My daughter gave
 BG>  me on of those hanging basket things and an upside down tomato

 RH> Our local CVS had them right after we got back from our trip.  We got
 RH> a couple and last week we got a couple of tomato plants (really small)
 RH> to put in one.  Holding the other one for next year so we can start
 RH> earlier.  We figure we'll have some tomatoes before frost hits.  We
 RH> also got basil and oregano plants and parsley seeds (now sown) to go
 RH> with the rosemary and spearmint already in the flower beds when we
 RH> moved into this place in May.

 BG>  I did parsley once, that stuff took over the yard.   Watch out
 BG>  it grows faster than grass.

Ours is confined to a 6" pot; the first seedlings are just beginning to
poke thru now.  I'll keep it as an indoor plant, harvesting as needs be.

 BG>  Some spices grow in window boxes and hang nicely.  I don't know
 BG>  what they are of course, but might find out now.  I have an overhang
 BG>  on the front of my garage and was contemplating putting them there.
 BG>  So my concern was that I would have to have someone spread the
 BG> hanging  plants aside like a curtain, to get the car into the garage.


OK, I was thinking you were going to dry the herbs in the garage.
Envisioning the curtain of green tho is funny.

 RH> addition.  I use a dehydrator but my MIL showed me how to do parsley
 RH> in a microwave (on a paper towel).  Only caution with that is you need
 RH> to watch that the towel doesn't catch fire.  But, the flavor and aroma
 RH> keeps longer than some of the other drying methods.

 BG>  The dried ones in the market are inexpensive enough, I don't think
 BG>  the final product would be worth the work involved.  It would be

It's really not a lot of work to dry herbs.  We're going basically
organic with the way we're raising them.  Not knowing how the
prepackaged dry ones were raised (unless they specify organic) is good
reason to grow our own.


 BG>  nice to have fresh all season though.

Definately!  Steve used some of the basil the other day in a
deconstructed BLT.  He had the B & L on the side of a T and basil
sandwich.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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