Someone in my workplace has been pruning their rosemary bush, so there were big branches of rosemary stacked on the bench of the Tea Room, dark green and aromatic, a gift to the hopeful cook.
I grabbed four big branches. My office smells like heaven…
I know exactly what I’ll be doing with them – big, woody rosemary branches make wonderful skewers for kebabs, and I have those beautiful chicken breasts and tenderloins just crying out to be marinated for tonight’s dinner. I think I’ll keep it simple, and let my ingredients speak for themselves – I have white wine, really good olive oil, lemons and garlic for the marinade; I have the aforementioned dried cherries and almonds which will be beautiful in a jewelled pilaf with dried apricots and pistachios; I have home-made yoghurt for a sauce, and maybe my garden will yield me some mint and parsley and nasturtiums and rocket for a nice, herby salad.
I’m hungry already…
Oh that whole meal sounds goooooood…. I love rosemary. Did you manage to get any work done? I think I would have been rubbing it and smelling my fingers all day.
Rosemary is wonderful, isn’t it? I did get some work done, but there was a certain amount of hand-sniffing, I must confess. And my office still smells faintly of rosemary…
What a lovely idea.
I’m still occasionally sad that we had to leave behind the rosemary from your wedding – not least because having my successfully kept it alive for so many years is remarkable!
I’ll say! We didn’t do so well with ours…!