I’d prefer it if my front garden was a herb garden. Instead it is a stupid pattern of topiary, hard to maintain and even worse to eat. My neighbour has a rosemary hedge which I’ll sometimes “harvest” just because I can (when they’re not looking). If like me you have a plentiful supply, here are 14 things to do with rosemary for Weekend Herb Blogging #39 back over with Kalyn’s Kitchen this week.
1. Par-cooked new potatoes roasted in the oven with rosemary and olive oil
2. Lamb roasted with rosemary and salted anchovies
3. Any kind of lamb barbequed with loads of rosemary
4. Rosemary stems stripped of leaves used as kebabs on the barbeque. Spear any cubes of meat or fish
5. Pizza, or any fat bread for that matter, topped with Rosemary, olive oil, thinly sliced potatoes (perhaps from 1, above) and sprinkled with Murray River salt flakes
6. In herb butter. Mash butter with rosemary and whatever herbs you feel like. Roll into a sausage in plastic wrap. Slice and use immediately or freeze. Top griddled meat or fish with slices of the butter.
7. Monk fish roasted with rosemary and panacetta
8. Grilled tuna with rosemary
9. Rosemary pesto
10. In scones and dumplings
11. With pork
12. With fava beans or whatever beans you can lay your hands on.
13. Rosemary truffles (from Monsieur Truffe)
14. Rosemary and bay leaf savoury custard
15 Er, that’s it for now.
Source: me; Stephanie Alexander, The Cook’s Companion; Ian Hemphill, Spice Notes
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