Favorite Recipes With Herbs: Using Herbs In Everyday Cooking - Softcover

Ranck Hower, Dawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561483923 ISBN 13: 9781561483921

Publisher: Good Books, 2003

Synopsis

          By the New York Times bestselling authors of Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook. You can cook simply with basic, tasty herbs and liven up the old family favorites! Or try a savory new dish with herbs you grow or find at the grocery store. Use herbs in your everyday cooking for lunch, dinner, and even breakfast. Hundreds of easy-to-use recipes, gathered and tested by the top herb shops in the country!           Measurements are given for both fresh and dry herbs. Includes the 14 most commonly grown herbs: Basil, Lemon Balm, Parsley, Bay, Lovage, Rosemary, Chives, Mint, Sage, Cilantro, Oregano and Marjoram, Tarragon, Dill, Thyme. Also tips for gardening and storing. Includes two indexes, one by herbs and one by recipe category.

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About the Author

For years, Dawn J. Ranck has been growing herbs, cooking with herbs, teaching about herbs, and generally spreading her contagion about the little plants and the way they enliven food. She is an advocate of bringing herbs to everyon's kitchens, not just to the cooking artists'. Ranck lives and pastors a church in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

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Excerpt
About This Cookbook
Cooking with herbs is like being part of a small rebellion. The pleasure of growing our own food -- even a few stalks of basil or rosemary -- helps many of us withstand our too-full lives and concrete and macadam worlds.
The satisfaction of cooking with fresh ingredients -- perhaps some lemon thyme or apple mint -- brings energy both to preparing food and to eating it. We are not -- we will not be -- completely captive to packaging and advertising and carry-in speed meals!
Herbs, with all their personality, liven up any dish, yet don't require a major cooking production. They are, in fact, humble ingredients in what they ask of a cook. But they sing out when they are put in place -- either mixed in early, or added impromptu at the end of preparing a dish.
Herbs do their part, whether fresh or dried, albeit with somewhat different effect. So you don't need your own pot or garden, or even supermarket-fresh varieties, to add herbs to your meals. We give suggested portions of both fresh and dried herbs in most recipes in this book.
Favorite Recipes with Herbs is a cookbook. Herbs have medicinal and cosmetic and aromatic properties, but we do not cover those uses here.
Instead, we offer cooking recipes using 14 herbs within easy reach of most of us who live within temperate or subtropical climates. These herbs are not exotic plants. They are good for beginning herb growers; they are favorites of veteran herb farmers.
We have also tapped the knowledge and experience of herb shopkeepers across the country. What a wonderful variety of recipes has resulted! What downright useful and imaginative tips!
Join this growing group of cooks. Favorite Recipes with Herbs will give you many recipes and ideas to follow -- and will likely lead you to experimenting happily on your own, freed from bland cooking forever!
--Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good

About this edition

• Publisher: Good Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1561483923
• ISBN 13: 9781561483921
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 284