Rosemary Adds Flavor to Food and Smells Nice Too

Donna Daniels
Donna Daniels
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Rosemary is a herb I didn't grow up with. My parents did not like the flavor of rosemary so we didn't have it in the house. I did not try rosemary until I was in my twenties and I am not sure why I tried it at that time except I had some in the house and wanted a new flavor to my roast.


Rosemary is a member of the mint family. The herb rosemary gets it's name from the Latin word for "dew of the sea".

The thin leaves of the Rosemary plant are needlelike and they carry a sweet, pungent, piney scent.

Rosemary has been used as a flavor in foods and for perfumery for centuries. It has been popular for along time.

You can add rosemary to meat dishes and potatoes to add flavor. You can mix rosemary right into your hamburger meat before you make the hamburger meat into patties. Add rosemary to the top of a roast before you cook the roast and the flavor of the rosemary will cook into the meat. My favorite way to use rosemary is to put it on top of a buffalo steak and as you cook the steak the rosemary adds flavor to the steak. You can cook rosemary with onions as you cook the onions. Or sprinkle the rosemary onto a baked potato to add the delightful taste of rosemary to your potatoes.

You can buy rosemary dried or fresh. Fresh rosemary is the best but for me it can actually add too much flavor to food. So I tend to use dried rosemary in my cooking.

Rosemary makes a great potpourri or you can lay some springs of rosemary in your linens. Put a sprig of rosemary in a drawer to help make the drawer smell good.

Rosemary is great in a herb garden. You can plant it in a pot with several herbs in one pot or you can put it in a garden for fresh rosemary. You can pick the rosemary in the fall and let it dry so you can use the rosemary all winter long.

Rosemary is a great herb to add flavor to food and to make a room smell nice. Rosemary can help add a nice aroma to small enclosed spaces like in a car or closet. If you dry rosemary in your kitchen it will make your kitchen smell nice and you can use it to add flavor to your cooking too.

 
 
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