[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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