This is number two in my garden pharmacy series, a series (in no particular order) of the herbs that I think earn their spot in the garden at least partly because of their value as medicinals.
So, a series on the easy to grow, multiple-use herbs I grow at least partly for their medicinal use. A retrosuburbia garden medicine chest. After my cold last week, I started to think about how useful it is to have basic medicinals growing where I can just go out and pick, even when I am quarantining so as not to pass my germs on, even if pharmaceuticals get tangled up…
I have a cold and it has made me very aware of the value in having medicinal plants in the garden.
Hanging baskets, pots, edges, all the little unused spaces. It is a little bit ironic that the beds I harvest most often are the smallest…
There are a million versions of Green Goddess dressing on the internet. So this is my garden-based version. It will keep for a few days in the fridge, but it’s so easy to make, it’s best made fresh when you want it. We had half of this batch drizzled over roast carrots, celeriac, parsnips, beets, sweet potato, red onions, and cauliflower, and the rest dollopped on poached eggs on sourdough…
This is a real Spring recipe. You need 24 very young and fresh and tender vine leaves.
This Tuesday Night Vego Challenge recipe uses egg noodles, which are exactly the same as pasta. I’m a relatively recent convert to home-made pasta and noodles. For years I used to think home-made pasta 1. required a pasta machine, and 2. was just a carrier for the sauce anyway. In fact I was wrong on both counts.