Basic Court Bouillon
This simple recipe for court bouillon contains just 5 ingredients without the water; three from your culinary garden.
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Green Pepper Butter
While this recipe uses green bell peppers, it is equally good with your garden-fresh yellow or red bell peppers, too. Excellent with grilled pork or poultry dishes, this green pepper and butter spread makes an equally nice accompaniment to tea sandwiches.
Hibiscus (Jamaica) Vinaigrette
Dried hibiscus flowers (jamaica) can be found in most Latino and Mexican supermarkets.
Hibiscus (Jamaica) Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 6 dried hibiscus flowers
- 1/2 cup water
- 3/4 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons raspberry-flavored balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon crème fraiche
Instructions
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Combine the dried flowers and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, remove, and then let steep for about 10 minutes. You want the mixture to be strong. Strain through a fine mesh sieve to remove all solids form the dried flowers. Reserve.
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Whisk the mustard, salt, balsamic vinegar, and 2 tablespoons of the hibiscus tea.
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Stream in the olive oil until emulsified and blended. Then whisk in the crème fraiche.
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Serve with fresh garden greens.
Recipe Notes
Adapted from Martha Stewart Magazine
Fresh Kiwi and Asian Pear Salsa with Dried Cranberries and Herbs
A great fruit salsa for seafoods and poultry dishes. Add in fresh Serrano chiles for a little spice. A fresh fruit salsa with many different uses. Spice it up with hot chiles, or use different colored kiwi.
Avocado Sorbet Recipe
Use Haas avocados for best flavor.
Avocado Sorbet
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- 3 avocados pitted, peeled, and mashed up
- 2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lime juice
Instructions
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Bring the sugar, corn syrup, and water to a boil in a heavy saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in the zest. Let mixture cool for one hour.
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Place the avocados, and lemon and lime juices, in a food processor and process until smooth. Add in the sugar syrup, and process again until smooth. Pour into a half hotel pan, or 13 inch by 9 inch pan, cover with plastic wrap, and freeze for one hour.
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Remove from freezer, and break up. Process in a food processor until slushy, and spread back into the pan.
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Freeze until firm, then scoop out to serve.
Recipe Notes
Adapted from Food Arts Magazine, June 2007
3-2-1 Lemonade
This recipe makes a refreshing lemonade that is pretty to serve, too. Use a mandolin for thin, even slices. Mix it in a clear gallon-size pitcher or dispenser. Because you are using the whole lemon, use it up the day it is made, or if there are leftovers, …
Sage Cordial Recipe
A great way to use up your fresh sage in your herb garden.
Sage Cordial
Ingredients
- 10 fresh sage leaves
- 2 cups vodka
- 2/3 cup water
- 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
Instructions
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Crush the sage using a mortar and pestle until fragrant. Place in a crushed sage leaves in a 1 pint jar with a tight fitting lid (or jar large enough to hold all the ingredients). Clean out the mortar bowl to remove every last bit of sage by adding some of the vodka and swishing, then add this with the sage leaves.
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Add the rest of the vodka and shake well. Let the jar stand for 8 days, away from light, shaking occasionally.
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Place the water and sugar in a small saucepan, and simmer until the sugar has dissolved. Place in a jar with a tight fitting lid and refrigerate for 8 days while the sage is infusing.
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After the 8 days are up, strain the sage and vodka through a coffee filter into a 750ml bottle (or 1 quart size) with a tight fitting lid. Add in the sugar syrup and seal. Shake to mix.
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The sage cordial tastes best when kept chilled.
Recipe Notes
Adapted from Gormet Magazine, November 1990 Issue
Curry Leaf – Murraya Koenigii
The curry leaf plant is a subtropical, evergreen shrub with leaves that look like tiny palm fronds. This plant is completely different from the curry plant, Helichrysum italicum, a Mediterranean herb with tiny, silver looking leaves. While the curry leaf tree does have berries (berries are …
