Better appreciation through plants

[jenett]

I have just come back up from the parent-run teacher appreciation lunch. Good food, free books, and plants! (They usually do some sort of give-away thing: this year, it was lots of pots of little plants.) I now have rosemary sitting on my desk. Tonight, it will come home and go on my back stoop by the tomatoes. It has a little tag on it with care instructions, even. (I do, in fact, know how to take care of rosemary, but I approve of information sharing.)

Of course, this is making me feel I should just break down and buy some basil and dill to go with it. (those three being the fresh herbs I'm most likely to use widely.)

In a bit, I am going to go fight with the turned in laptops, and with about 8 million other things I need to do. We have scheduled two of the four interviews we want to do next week, and I've been playing phone tag with one of the others.

Tonight, I get to go home, make food for lunch tomorrow (the first of the "They are not feeding us!" days) and do many other things, including maybe clean the house.

Comments

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Don't buy a dill plant!! There is so much in the garden I've been thinning it. I'd be glad to transplant some into a pot for you. There is a reason it's sometimes called "dill weed".

[jenett]

Oh, excellent! I would love some. (I believe I even have a spare pot, if that helps: it's on the front porch on one of the bookshelves)

Dill recipes

[(Anonymous)]

I have too many young dill plants at home, but no idea what to cook with them! As you seem to use dill, do you have any ideas of what I can do with them?

Re: Dill recipes

[jenett]

Hi there -

Things I do with dill:

- Put it in bread (either a regular bread recipe, or you can search for cottage cheese dill bread, which uses cottage cheese for most of the water.)

- Carrot dill soup. (Carrot soup, lots of dill. Make like any other veggie soup: cook the veggies in broth, blend at the end.) If you don't want soup, cooked carrots tossed with a little butter and a lot of dill are also excellent.

- In tuna fish (probably the place I use it most frequently): I do tuna, mayo, lots of dill, and a sprinkling of dehyrdated onion, for ease.

- Onion dill yogurt dip: recipe here: http://omnomnom.dreamwidth.org/62157.html

I usually work off of dried, in all cases, but you can substitute fresh for most of these, you'd just want to adjust proportions. Dill is also commonly paired with salmon, which I mostly don't cook at home.

Re: Dill recipes

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for your help.