productive evening

[magid]

Tonight I:
bought herbs and dirt for transplanting them (2 basil, 2 kinds of mint, lemon balm, some lavender; also a cherry tomato plant).
made an infant smile.
did a load of laundry.
bought groceries.
cooked: made a cake and truffle guts, also cooked artichokes, and now a veggie curry is simmering on the stove.

I didn't get to all the food I'd planned to make tonight, but everything I most wanted to do did get done, so I suppose all is good.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Lavender! Lemon balm!!

Damn. If you weren't such a good cook I'd offer to make you something in exchange for a few small bunches of herbs :)

A.
wishing she could grow stuff...

[magid.livejournal.com]

well, you definitely have to wait until they grow some more... there's still a countable number of leaves...

(do you have a sunny window in your apartment? they're likely to do fine there, with reasonably frequent watering.)

herb uses

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'm curious: what do you do with lavender? Lemon balm?

I, of course, am too lazy to do things like sachets; I use them in cooking. Well, the lavender, really - putting leaves of lemon balm in lemonade doesn't quite count as cooking... (fresh lemonade with a couple of twists of lime, some lemon balm, a couple of leaves of fresh mint... perfect on a hot summer afternoon!).
And the only way I've used the lavender is with rosemary, sea salt, and olive oil on a focaccia (sp?). This looks especially nice with the kind of lavender that has dentillated (I think that's the word I want) leaves. They're about the same size as the rosemary, just with interesting curves. Very pretty, in the few minutes before devouring

Re: herb uses

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I like using lavender in sweet dishes. Lavender honey sour cream pie, lavender lemon pound cake, etc. I haven't gotten to cook with fresh lemon balm yet, I'd just love to :)

A.