Salad Herbs : Library of Culinary Arts (Library of Culinary Arts)

Rating:
Summary: As much a gift book as garden/kitchen book
Review: This slim volume has photos and growing instructions for basil, borage, chervil, chives, corn-salad, cress, dandelion, dill, fennel, garlic, parsley, purslane, rocket, burnet, sweet cicely, tarragon with photos only for wood sorrel, lemon balm, sorrel and hyssop. The short section of recipes revolve around, but are not limited to, this set of herbs - Okrosha (a cold soup from Russia), chervil soup, fish salad etc. Some call for an unspecified mixture, others for specific herbs.

This volume unfortunately does not stand alone well. It needs a companion volume of salad greens as some recipes include ingredients such as "small letuce leaves and other non-bitter small salad greens", watercress etc. Nonetheless, it is a fun addition to a kitchen library.

Rating:
Summary: As much a gift book as garden/kitchen book
Review: This slim volume has photos and growing instructions for basil, borage, chervil, chives, corn-salad, cress, dandelion, dill, fennel, garlic, parsley, purslane, rocket, burnet, sweet cicely, tarragon with photos only for wood sorrel, lemon balm, sorrel and hyssop. The short section of recipes revolve around, but are not limited to, this set of herbs - Okrosha (a cold soup from Russia), chervil soup, fish salad etc. Some call for an unspecified mixture, others for specific herbs.

This volume unfortunately does not stand alone well. It needs a companion volume of salad greens as some recipes include ingredients such as "small letuce leaves and other non-bitter small salad greens", watercress etc. Nonetheless, it is a fun addition to a kitchen library.