Another vote for Susie_MI's "no-cook" pizza sauce. Yum.

Frozen herbs: Dorot Basil, Cilantro, Chili, etc

The little suckers only cost $1.98 at Super Walmart. Heck, I can blow $2.50 on a bunch of fresh cilantro in any given week. Actually EVERY WEEK.

Admittedly, you don't get the fresh pop of flavor, but for convenience in a cooked (or in this case, a non-cooked) sauce situation, I'm fine with it. It will never replace fresh basil in, say, a Caprese salad, but to add a burst of flavor to a sauce...ya, it worked.

Each cube is about the size of my thumbnail (1/2" cube).

http://www.nourition.com/2010/10/18/product-review-dorot-frozen-herbs/

 
Fresh herbs are so easy to grow, even in pots, and especially if you have a sunny window

When I watch Laura Calder's show, she has a bunch of them on her counter top, in front of a bank of windows. Plus herbs grow like weeds and many come back year after year. The only one I have to replant every year is sweet basil. Even the French Tarragon survived our cold winter with one week of snow on the ground.
I saw this product in our store the other day and was thinking it will be very handy for those without a spot to grow of few things.

 
We didn't last year after the bugs took it out. Then Larry went on a trip and I killed EVERYTHING

else...including that big gorgeous Christmas cactus.

This is why I do not have children.

FloridaSandy sent me a batch of seeds so I'm going to try again.

 
I watched FN Guy's Grocery Games and they used these. I wanted

to see what they were and I looked at Publix but they hadn't heard of them. I never thought about Wally World. Thanks for that, I'll check there. I don't use cilantro often and it really irks me to have to buy it. I just can't grow it for some reason. I don't have any trouble with bugs on my herbs and can't understand why you do. Now, tomato plants? That is another matter!

 
I have a few of the herbs in squeeze tubes. the basil is very nice. handy and nicer than dry

 
Yikes, I always thought gardening in Florida would be so wonderful, but I recall Peggy Bucholtz

having issues in Arizona after she left Oregon, even with a simple plant like thyme. Must be the soil in your area, as that seemed to be the issue in Oro Valley where Peggy lived. I think they had to do a lot of soil amending.

 
I did not know sweet basil came in squeeze tube. What part of the grocery store are they stored?

That would be great in the winter.

 
yes, in the produce section---cooler. by the other fresh herbs and dressings at our Safeway etc.

lots of other herbs too. my basil has stayed "fresh" tasting for quite a long while.

 
I made basil tomato bisque with this sauce and it was wonderful. Someone needs to put this in T&T !

 
I love the basil ones, they do taste nice and I can't grow herbs much here.

In my north facing apartment in the fog smileys/smile.gif

Got them at TJs...

 
Well, this also worked with ziti and a bunch of antipasti stuff:

I added a small 4 oz container of Susie's suace to ziti and the following items:

jarred stuff, rinsed to remove excess salt:
artichokes
marinated mushrooms
roasted red peppers
capers
olives
oven-roasted dried tomatoes

fresh stuff, sauteed:
onions (2 large shallots)
mushrooms
garlic
green onions

finished off with lots of fresh parsley, parmesan, pecorrino.

Ditto on the Yum.

 
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