Written by Catherine Saxelby
on Wednesday, 05 April 2017.
Tagged: health, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, herbs, nutrition
Recently I posted on Instagram how much rosemary I had growing in my garden in the bush. It thrives in that hot dry climate which is not dissimilar to the Mediterranean world. From two tiny plants, I now have two huge bushes, each around one metre in diameter bursting with aromatic fragrance.
So what to do with it all? I’d already used it to marinate a shoulder of lamb and boost the flavour of crispy-roast potatoes – both traditional pairings for the fragrant but woody herb. But this doesn’t use up much of my rosemary - unlike basil with pesto. What else can I do with it?
As always, my wonderful followers on Instagram came to the rescue with heaps and heaps of ideas. They gave me lots of interesting ways to use fresh rosemary so I thought I’d summarise them here. Not all are for food uses. I hope this gives you inspiration if you too have it growing and wonder what else there is you can do. Believe me, there’s lots and lots!
Rosemary was used in traditional herbal medicine to make a tea said to improve memory.
Rosemary is a versatile, tasty and fragrant herb with many uses. In addition to the above, rosemary was used in traditional herbal medicine to make a tea said to improve memory which is probably why we have Rosemary for Remembrance and everyone wears a sprig of it on Remembrance Day. So remember to use yours if you have it growing in your garden! Thanks to everyone from Instagram for helping out!
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