I am not much of a grower of things.
As in, I'm really bad with plants. Most of them I just can't figure out. So here, in our little apartment, all I have in pots on the patio are lavender, rosemary, basil, peppers and tomatoes. I so far have one tiny tomato on my plant. I'm hopeful it won't be the only one.
What I'm really excited about is the rosemary. It's going nuts! I've never had a rosemary plant behave this well. Maybe it's the soil.
I have a good healthy bunch of it that I've snipped off the bush, and once it's dried, I'm going to put it in what's left of my bottle of olive oil. A note: any herb-oil infusions you make, the herbs MUST be dried. Otherwise you're tainting your oil with water--which can and will set off some bacteria. It's bad news. So. Dry your herbs.
I DO have a dehydrator, and I'll post some stuff about that later this summer when the farmer's market starts back up. For the rosemary I have now though, the dehydrator would have been a bit of overkill, so they're air drying.
So in a week or so, I'll have rosemary infused olive oil for marinades and sautees and...it's gonna be fun. :)
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