How Do I Cook With Fresh Herbs?

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Kids & Family, Parenting, Arts, Food

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Want to instantly make home cooked meals taste better? We tell you how to use fresh herbs to take your meal from ho-hum to oh-yum.

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0:00.0	Even if you just start by like finishing your dishes with some fresh herbs to get a sense of what you like and how you like the flavor to shine, whether you want it to be a little bit more subdued than you might add it earlier so that the cooking process kind of dampens the flavor.
0:19.3	But just finishing your food with fresh herbs is like a
0:22.9	really great way to get in some new habits and to experiment a little. Welcome to didn't I
0:29.1	just feed you. A podcast about feeding kids. Hey, I'm Megan and I'm Stacy. Coming at you very excited about this week's episode. I love this topic.
0:43.4	Buying using cooking with fresh herbs is one of my favorite things to do. I know that it can be
0:51.8	overwhelming because there are a lot of them. Maybe you're not familiar
0:55.2	with the flavors. And then also sometimes you've had the experience of buying some fresh herbs
1:00.9	for a recipe, not using them up and them going bad on you. And that can be really frustrating
1:06.4	and feel like a waste of money. So today we're going to talk about what fresh herbs are, how you can
1:11.8	use them in general. And then we're going to also give you some ways that you may not have thought
1:15.3	of to use them and also use them up as you cook because we really want you to use fresh herbs.
1:21.8	This is an evergreen episode. Herbs are around all year long, but we are recording in the summer and they are really abundant
1:30.2	and beautiful in the summer. And it's so easy to grow them and to buy them at your farmer's
1:35.4	market and your supermarket. Do you know what's really funny about this is I think of fresh
1:41.5	herbs as like a Stacey thing. In every episode, you're like, and fresh herbs and fresh herbs as like a Stacy thing.
1:44.7	That's so funny.
1:45.1	In every episode, you're like, and fresh herbs and fresh herbs.
1:48.3	Like whether we're talking about grocery shopping, grabbing those fresh herbs, or whether
1:52.0	we're talking about how to like make something taste really good.
1:55.8	You're like fresh herbs.
1:57.2	And I don't think, in my mind, I don't buy as many fresh herbs as you do, but also we grow
2:06.0	a handful of fresh herbs and have neighbors who gardens.
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