Social Question
Leftover fresh thyme: recipes?
I had to buy a much larger quantity of thyme than I needed for the soup I was making. I hate to throw out the rest, but I don’t have a lot of uses for fresh thyme.
Suggestions?
Vegetable dishes are welcome at our house, as is just about anything that involves potatoes or pasta. Rice is popular, but usually just cooked plain. We eat a lot of chicken and fish, some beef. My husband is a carnivore and I am mostly an herbivore, but we generally compromise as omnivores.
We do avoid long, complex recipes with offbeat ingredients, things that take an hour of chopping, and things that involve significant time standing and mixing, stirring, or handling. My husband and I both have backs that suffer with prolonged time on foot and activity that pulls on the back muscles.
At our house, “NED” stands for “new, exciting, and different.” We bore ourselves a lot, so we always want something NED for dinner—but not too NED. That’s what makes it a tricky proposition.
Topics as I wrote them: thyme, herbs, food, cooking, recipes, vegetables, fresh ingredients.