Poll: Favorite Herbs
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Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro
Posted: Apr-24-2005 at 10:31pm
curious what people like and want to do another poll to see what people cant get and want.
Trish
Location: Washington, Southwestern
Posted: Apr-24-2005 at 11:27pm
I want to vote for mint. Peppermint varieties are my favorite.
Lisa A
Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro
Posted: Apr-24-2005 at 11:47pm
And I wanted to vote for more than one - basil *and* rosemary but the poll wouldn't let me.
I love herbs but one that I'm just not crazy about is cilantro. I just don't get why it is so popular.
basilgirl
Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro
Posted: Apr-24-2005 at 11:55pm
sorry - thought i set the poll to allow for more than one selection--
Lisa A
Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro
Posted: Apr-24-2005 at 11:59pm
Oh, it's not your fault. I've tried to set polls to allow for more than one response per person and it didn't work either. I guess it's a glitch in the system that I haven't been able to figure out how to get around.
basilgirl
Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro
Posted: Apr-25-2005 at 12:00am
people love cilantro cause they like to make their own salsa!
Love mints too but so invasive, many home gardners cant control them.
DebbieTT
Location: Washington, Kitsap Peninsula
Posted: Apr-25-2005 at 12:31am
I love cilantro as it makes yummy, holey moley guacamole.
JeanneK
Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro
Posted: Apr-25-2005 at 10:16am
I have to say basil is my favorite. I loooove pesto!
Jeanne
Screaming Eagle
Location: Puget Sound corridor
Posted: Apr-25-2005 at 10:38am
I love cilantro too. The time of year would change my answer though. Fall would be sage (for the turkey) winter time would be parsely because it's so versatle and seems to continue to do well that time of year, but warm weather is cilantro time! Margaritas, fresh salsa with cilantro and quac with cilantro! YUM!
Basil too once the tomatoes start coming on.
This was too hard to choose just one!
HarleyLady
Location: Willamette Valley
Posted: Apr-25-2005 at 9:45pm
So, are we talking favorite herb for cooking or favorite as a plant? Some of the ones I think are lovely I don't care to eat and versavice.
HarleyLady
catplus
Location: Oregon, Willamette Valley
Posted: Apr-26-2005 at 5:47am
Though I dearly love rosmary and basil, for all around use, oregano is my pick for best herb.
In Portugal I learned to love it. At every meal in the family I lived with there was a little dish of dried leaves of oregano for sprinkling on everything, especially tomatoes. So darn good! I love it crinkled over soft boiled eggs, steak, you name it, oregano makes it better! My only problem is that for some reason my oregano didn't produce well last year, so I had to do without. This year I moved it to a new place with richer soil, and have it planted with bulbs of red and elephant garlic. Pasta sauce in the making. Oh my! I'm hungry already!
Lisa A
Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro
Posted: Apr-26-2005 at 11:13pm
Oh, I know what cilantro is used for. I love salsa. I guess I'm tired of seeing cilantro used - almost overused, IMO - in so many dishes and sometimes to the point of overpowering other flavors. But I know it's just my personal taste and I'm among the minority. And I can live with that.
catplus, my hubby loves oregano, too. I can't put enough in the spaghetti sauce for him.
Garden Spider
Location: Washington, Puget Sound Corridor
Posted: Apr-27-2005 at 6:53pm
Rosemary is my all-time favorite herb, for cooking and for an ornamental plant. I love the plant, I love to rub the leaves and get the scent of Rosemary.
I can't cook without Thyme, Marjoram, and Garlic. I put those three herbs on nearly everything. I love to grow Thyme, as well. It's a marvelous herb!
I don't cook much with Sage, but I am growing it for use. I'm growing non-culinary Sages, and enjoying them all!
I love Mints, as well. When I was growing up in the Willamette Valley, my Dad would take the family for drives out in the country. He'd stop alongside the road next to a field of Mint, and pick a few leaves (don't tell the farmers!), and my sister and I would chew them on the way home. I still enjoy the taste of fresh Mint leaves to this day.
I like Cilantro in Mexican food. Had a taco salad at a Denny's in Phoenix that had fresh Cilantro in it--just enough to flavor it, not enough to overpower it (the first Denny's I've ever eaten at that had genuinely good food).
I also like Lavender in some foods, also like the plant as an ornamental. Try a Lavender sprig in lemonade. I found a recipe for Lavender scones that I want to try (it's in "A Dilly of a Death" by Susan Wittig Albert, if you're curious).
I don't think I can choose just ONE favorite herb!
Barb
Red Hare
Location: Oregon coast
Posted: May-13-2005 at 12:04pm
I probably use bay leaves in my cooking more than any other herb (is it considered an herb?), and usually use thyme along with it. Neither were on the list. Love fresh springs of lemon thyme with baked pork chops or chicken. Now I'm hungry!
cjmiller
Location: Oregon, Willamette Valley
Posted: May-13-2005 at 5:47pm
Hey, where is the catagory "all of the above" because that would probably get the most votes, as I bet people dont grow just one herb. I have all of them in our yard, plus several more that I grow for things other than using in cooking. Also, I think cilantro is an acquired taste as I thought it tasted soapy when I first tried it, but there are a lot of us who would find several dishes wanting if the cilantro was missing.
Carol
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