This is an effective recipe after a long and stressful day to calm you down.
1 bottle Dry white wine, empty into a clean jug
1 tablespoon Rosemary leaves, chopped
2 tablespoons Lemon balm, chopped
4 Cloves
2 tablespoons Honey
1×3cm Cinnamon stick
Place the herbs, spice and honey in the empty bottle and top with the wine
Shake daily until the honey [...]
Lemon grass is an annual herb that flourishes in the tropics. It reaches a height of 1.5 m and a spread of 1 m. It is used extensively in Asia, India and Thailand for a very long time. Lemon grass has a strong lemon flavor due to citral, essential oil it contains. It is now [...]
Paving on sand can create ideal conditions for herbs that prefer a sunny and well-draining ground. Herbs such as Thyme can creep and spread out through the cracks. A Chequerboard pattern of slabs with plants in the spaces between is a simple design but effective showpiece for herbs, planted to create blocks of colors that [...]
There are several species of the aloe herb, actually, more than 500 species of Aloes. It belongs to the lily family and it is a native of the sunny East and South Africa. They form clusters of fleshy leaf blades with prickles at the margins and tips. They come in a variety of [...]
Herb oils are great in cooking as well as salad dressings. This herb combination is a good basic choice but you can try others such as oregano, rosemary, and basil. Adding some chili and garlic to a herb oil produces a spicy condiment. Dribble some on toasted bread, pasta, salad dressing, with stir-fry cooking and [...]
It is possible to make delicious herbal wines to use as tonics, digestive aids or after a stressful day. If you want your wines to last for a long time choose a full-bodied wine. For a light mellow wine to be used as a good tonic a good Muscat will blend well with herbs.
The following [...]
Parsley is without doubt the most well known herb and it has been cultivated for thousands of years. It is a hardy biennial that reaches a height of up to 60cm and a spread of 30cm. There are two types of this culinary herb in use, the curly leaf and the flat leaf or Italian [...]