Rosemary & bayleaf pics & updates

[TheCuteOrpington]

Hello!
Some of my favorites herbs are rosemary, and bayleaf!
Would love to hear some of your thoughts about them!

~orp

 

[digitS']

I grew up around California bay trees. I also like licorice flavors. Mom would make beef soup and in would go bay leaves -- not from the bay tree just beyond the fenceline of the cattle pasture , but bay leaves from the store.

If there were bay trees, there was pine ... and cedar and Douglas fir ... I thought I might be somehow related to a Douglas fir when I was a kid. Yes, my grandfather's name was Douglas, although he always went be Jack .

How Rosemary is related to things like basil and mint, hardly makes sense to me. It smells like a pine tree and looks like a fir. It's an evergreen!

I like it! If we didn't have beef soup or beef stew on the farm, we had a roast in the oven. I like beef roast with sprigs of my own rosemary.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

My mothers pasta GRAVY would not be the same without Bay leafs.I know most people call it tomato sauce, but Italian Americans call it tomato gravy.

 

[TheCuteOrpington]

I grew up around California bay trees. I also like licorice flavors. Mom would make beef soup and in would go bay leaves -- not from the bay tree just beyond the fenceline of the cattle pasture , but bay leaves from the store.

If there were bay trees, there was pine ... and cedar and Douglas fir ... I thought I might be somehow related to a Douglas fir when I was a kid. Yes, my grandfather's name was Douglas, although he always went be Jack .

How Rosemary is related to things like basil and mint, hardly makes sense to me. It smells like a pine tree and looks like a fir. It's an evergreen!

I like it! If we didn't have beef soup or beef stew on the farm, we had a roast in the oven. I like beef roast with sprigs of my own rosemary.

Steve

We used to make roast chicken with rosemary and bay leaf for extra flavor.
It tasted great!
Great to hear from you!

Sincerely
~ Mel

 

[TheCuteOrpington]

My mothers pasta GRAVY would not be the same without Bay leafs.I know most people call it tomato sauce, but Italian Americans call it tomato gravy.

Macaroni cheese is never the same without bay leaf either!

 

[Nyboy]

We also call any type macaroni I never used pasta till I started eating in restaurants

 

[TheCuteOrpington]

@The Happy Hen

 

[so lucky]

Mac and cheese with bay leaf? I live in a culinary desert.
I bought some "herbes de Provence" while on vacation, but I haven't had the nerve to use it yet. It has lavender in it.
To my way of thinking, lavender has been to smell, not eat. I'm working on it.

 

[digitS']

I'm not too happy about ..

. lavender ..

. in tea.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Lavender Ice Cream I believe @vfem made and sold Lavender sugar .