Long days by the beach or fun night with friends – summer provides the best excuse for making easy, refreshing cocktails that use common pantry and home bar staples like fresh citrus fruit, tequila, rum, and gin. How about adding some herbs to enhance the flavour of your cocktails? Whether you’re growing herbs at home…
Join us for our annual Herb Weekend 2023 between the 31st of March to the 2nd of April – Click here for more info. How to Cook With Bay Leaves: 17 Recipe Ideas Using Bay Leaves Native to the Mediterranean, bay leaves haven’t always been isolated to the kitchen for their culinary uses. This leafy…
Join us for our annual Herb Weekend 2023 between the 31st of March to the 2nd of April – Click here for more info. What Is Lemon Verbena? Learn How to Cook With Lemon Verbena Although the lemon verbena plant might look like common grass at first glance, once the intense fragrance is released from…
Join us for our annual Herb Weekend 2023 between the 31st of March to the 2nd of April – Click here for more info. Although lavender is best known as an intense floral fragrance or addition to potpourri, this versatile plant has a range of surprising culinary uses that can be implemented in both sweet…
Join us for our annual Herb Weekend 2023 between the 31st of March to the 2nd of April – Click here for more info. What Is Dill? Dill, also known as dill weed, is a green, fragrant plant in the celery family (aka Apiaceae). Scientifically known as Anethum graveolens, dill’s common name comes from the…
Join us for our annual Herb Weekend 2023 between the 31st of March to the 2nd of April – Click here for more info. This plant is perfect for any type of gardener out there, no matter how much experience they have in the gardening world. And do not worry! We are here to make…
Join us for our annual Herb Weekend 2023 between the 31st of March to the 2nd of April – Click here for more info. Culinary Guide to Chives: Benefits and Uses One of the most popular and ubiquitous herbs in the world today, chives have a rich culinary history going back thousands of years. While…
Join us for our annual Herb Weekend 2023 between the 31st of March to the 2nd of April – Click here for more info. Culinary Guide to Basil: Benefits and Uses Basil is best known as one of the most popular and widely used culinary herbs in the world, however, throughout its history, this leafy…
Add a little bit of magic to your cooking. Edible flowers are flowers that can be consumed safely while cooking and garnishing. Flower cookery has been traced back to Roman times, and to the Chinese, Middle Eastern to Indian cultures. Edible flowers were especially popular in the Victorian era during Queen Victoria’s reign. Now a days,…