Hello my merry rosemary herb! Today we are learning everything there is to know about rosemary! How you should grow it, use it, pair it, and live with it! Let’s proceed, I guess.
The thing is we can do with this blog whatever we want my darling, if you like we can talk about Kim K splitting up with Kanye, but hey, we’re not like that. We like to explore, and experience new things, broaden our horizons if you want so. That’s why we learn about rosemary, and not the best new depilatory products on the market (but we don’t judge either, I heard there’s some nice new ones …). Quite the introduction, isn’t it? But hey, we don’t care, let’s start with the rosemary, shall we?
Why you should use rosemary?
Rosemary is considered one of the main kitchen herbs, therefore you will find it in a lot of recipes. The thing with dried rosemary is, we don’t like it very much, but you can, of course, make delicious meals with it. That’s why mostly we talk about your fresh I’m-so-cool-I-have-fresh-rosemary-in-my-20-acre-garden rosemary. But you can also have it fresh in your kitchen (read below)!
Where to use rosemary?
Because of it’s potent aroma rosemary is mainly used as the herb that really kicks in with flavor. Consider it the Mike Tyson of herbs, but without the “bokthing ith my favorite thport” part. The rule of pairing (mainly everything) we call SIS (similar in similar, and yea, we invented the term). This means strong flavors are better with stronger meats, stronger fish, pungent vegetables etc.
The rosemary herb will always be the strong flavor in your dish, remember this! To get a sense of how to use it in fish or meat-based dishes see picture below. But we’re sure you got a sense of how and where to use rosemary. And remember one thing, if anything goes wrong with your pairing, at least you tried (and we love you for that).
How to grow rosemary?
Rosemary is very lazy in terms of growing it from its own seeds. He’s like that kid in your kindergarten that just slept the whole day, but in the hot sun, mostly without water and growing nevertheless (we’re talking here about rosemary, not the kid).
The best way to grow rosemary herb at home is clean cutting a branch of fresh rosemary, removing the leaves from half of the branch and adding fresh water to it (in a glass or bowl). Leave it like that on your sunny window and don’t touch it (just add fresh water to it if you need)! In 2-3 weeks it will form tiny little roots (they are so gorgeous).
When this happens I always feel like the rosemary-god, hope you will too. If the roots are not strong enough, you can now leave it like that for a few more weeks, until the roots get stronger. Then replant it in your pot and leave it in a warm and sunny place, water it occasionally.
That’s it, you can now call yourself rosemary master! We always have fresh rosemary in our kitchen (double pinky swear), hope that, with these few tips, you’ll accompany us.
You can literally grow thousands of rosemary plants from scratch, just by planting rosemary branches. All it takes is one. Find it legally, or steal it from your neighbors garden, we don’t care. As always sharing is caring, and yea, you care about your rosemary.
Till next time, and remember, be merry my rosemary!
