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Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Kitchen Quick Tips - Preserving Basil

kitchen quick tips
While basil can be air dried it is too delicate to heat dry.  A better method of preserving basil is to make pesto then spoon into ice cube trays and freeze.  Once frozen, pop out the cubes and transfer to a freezer bag for use as needed.


Posted by Garden Gnome at 7:00 AM
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1 food lovers commented:

LindaG said...

Do you have a recipe for pesto? Not that I'd know what to do with that either.
I just grow the basil for the tomatoes...

8:34 AM

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