Monday, 29 November 2010
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What To Do With Leftover Herbs!
I happily traveled down to the Farmer's Market this weekend. As I maneuvered my way through the crowds (Union Square was really crowded this weekend!), I came upon Keith's farm stand. Whenever you enter his tent, you always get hit with amazing earthy smells. Overcome with aroma, I couldn't help but pick up some sage, rosemary and lavender.
On my way home as I thought about all of the meals I was going to make, I came across my usual quandary. As with most of my herb purchases, I inevitably end up with too much. I absolutely hate doing throwing them out but I can never use all of them before they go bad.
Later that day I was flipping through my pasta book, The Pasta Bible, and found a use for all of my leftover herbs! There is a tutorial in the book on how to put your herbs right in the pasta.
Basically, you make the dough as you normally would then lay herbs across the dough as seen in the picture below.
Put the other piece of dough on top of the piece covered with the herbs and roll them into one like so:
It is a creative way to infuse your pasta with herbs and the herbs taste very fresh. The results vary a little bit depending on the consistency of the pasta dough but it is certainly a great use of herbs!How do you use your leftover herbs?
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Comments (7)
I don't really have a way, so I might try this one!
How about freezing or drying them to use later in dishes that will benefit from the addition of herbs? I froze my excess thyme and rosemary leftover from Thanksgiving.
oh? how does the pasta taste?
not sure if i want sage-y tasting pasta in my shrimp scampi linguini
what do we do with leftover herbs? WE SMOKE THEM!
sage brownies?@facechild@xanga -
That sounds delicious! =)
Most of my left overs go to waste :(...but to remedy that I bought a basil plant so that there aren't really any leftovers..just pick what I need. =)
And never throw herbs in the garbage. If you have an area outside with earth, be sure to put them there, scattered out. It helps out the earth. n_n I like to think anyways! hehe