[Homestead] Have a good thyme and some herbed rye bread, Basil Pesto Cream Cheese

Tvoivozhd tvoivozd at infionline.net
Sat Oct 2 19:21:00 EDT 2004



Quick and Easy Appetizers



Herbed Rye Bread

Chop several herbs of choice: parsley, dill, lovage, chervil and/or 
chives onto plate. Surround with buttered cocktail rye bread. Dip 
buttered bread into herbs. Great with a glass of wine, on the patio.



Basil Pesto Cream Cheese

Pour basil pesto* over cream cheese and serve with crackers. Pesto may 
also be used alone, as a dipping sauce, with bread.

*Basil pesto may be purchased ready-made at the supermarket, or it may 
be made in home blender or food processor. Use 2 cups basil, one clove 
garlic, ¼ cup walnuts or pine nuts and ½ cup freshly grated parmesan 
cheese. Blend ingredients and drizzle in ¾ to 1 cup olive oil.

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:wzxArqW0g6kJ:www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/SavoryHerbs/SavoryHerbs.html+thyme+culture,+harvest,+use&hl=en  
(How to grow, use herbs)
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/herbs/ne208hrb.htm  (Northeast 
States extension information from Wesr Virginia)

http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/factsheets2/herbs/jul88pr3.html  
(Vermont variations on the herb theme, specifically on thyme)

http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/vegetable/herbs.html  (cut after 
dew dries, but before hot sun hits the herbs, use first joint of tender 
growth---do the microwave bit described here to eliminate moisture in 
bottles.)





Incidentally, if  you produce garden items to be sold at a Farmer's 
Market, or Flea Market---good idea to include a special section in your 
booth for herbs---as always packaging and presentation is everything,  
as it was in the highly popular, now-defunct Pet Rock  fad.  Herbs 
fortunately are not a fad, but you do have to provide recipes for their 
use in or on your package---and spend a little time and money on a gaudy 
package, not a mousy black and white.  Pay a professional to help you 
with making your message sing!  Put a (c) on the package to establish a 
copyright---you will have competitors if your booth sells a lot of 
merchandise, but you might as well make them spend some of their money 
on packaging, don't give them a free ride.  Unusual stuff like cutting 
celery (better than stalk-celery for soups and stews) should sell 
extremely well and differentiate your garden booth from others..  I 
would include various kinds of herbal teas.  Put a hot-plate, Sterno or 
something like that on your booth display bench, a teakettle, and hand 
out sample herbal teas to passersby in small paper cups---careful, don't 
scald them, and use teas you have already taste-tested.

Do me a favor,  if Gee Gee shows up, sprinkle a little St. John's Wort 
on him, supposed to be good for casting out evil.

s




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