A Taste for Herbs

A guide to seasonings, mixes and blends from the herb lover's garden

Sue Goetz author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:St. Lynn's Press

Published:21st Mar '19

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    Think of this book as your herb-seasoning master class, filled with simple secrets for capturing the power of flavor from your herb garden. Herbs are easy to grow anywhere, indoors or out, but do you know which ones do what in your foods and beverages…or how flavors play off of each other? This book shows you how to become an herbal tastemaster, whether you’re a home cook or a gourmet foodie. It all starts in the garden with fresh-picked herbs. Let dedicated herb lover Sue Goetz guide you into the delicious world of 20 essential, flavor-rich herbs and the pleasures they offer.

    With over 100 kitchen-tested herb recipes and full-color photographs throughout, you’ll discover how to:
  • grow and harvest the best flavor cultivars for culinary use
  • preserve and package
  • complement herbal flavors with spices, edible flowers, garlic, citrus, and other botanicals
  • prepare easy recipes for mixes, salts, rubs, pestos, oils, vinegars, butters, sugars, dressings, teas, herb-infused beverages…and much more!<

    • Take A Moment

    …To stop and breathe in the rose petal brandy, peppercorn-rose salt, and lavender sel et poivre (salt and pepper). A Taste for Herbs is your new source for sweet and savory seasonings to have on hand and give as gifts. Learn how to mix the right herbs from your garden to enhance the flavor of any dish. The variations on pesto, including lemon-lime and minty sweet, are our new go-tos for zippy one-dish pasta dinners. And the pineapple-ginger infused water is fantastically refreshing.

    -- Mary Ann NewcomerTake A Moment"The herb-loving author will lead you into the delicious world of these flavor-rich plants and the pleasures they offer."

    When author Susan Goetz of Tacoma, Washington, experienced health issues she eliminated from her diet many foods that triggered sensitivities. To keep things interesting, she turned to herbs and started making her own mixes from seasoning blends to cocktail infusions. Now Goetz offers the results of that personal journey in a new book A Taste for Herbs: A guide to seasonings, mixes and blends from the herb lover’s garden (St. Lynn’s Press, 2019). The 190-page book is a culinary-herbal master class wrapped around 100 recipes. It’s suitable for the novice and experienced herb lover alike.

    Feb. 25, 2019

    Goetz has a hard time choosing a favorite recipe. “Right now citrus herb pepper is one of my go-tos,” she says. “I use it on everything that I would use salt on and I use it two or three times a week in scrambled eggs in a mug (page 102) for my morning protein hit. The salsa mix is one I use a lot too. I like avocados mushed up as a side and I use the salsa mix to season them.”

    “I could easily say my favorite recipes come with the season. When I have basil in the garden, then pesto would my frequent recipe. As soon as the chives start popping up, I like to make them into an herb-oil paste to sauté with.”

    -- Paris Wolfe

    You acquired a variety of herbs. They grew. Now what? Obviously, you need to harvest, use and enjoy, and store the excess for winter that will come again. Help is here with a pleasant book with just this information. A Taste for Herbs: a guide to seasonings, mixes and blends from the herb lover’s garden, by Sue Goetz.

    Feb. 24, 2019 -- Judy Glattstein

    …[T]he cooking ideas in Part Two might make “A Taste for Herbs” by Sue Goetz a great gift for the manly chef in your life! In these six chapters, Sue introduces us to a plethora of ways to use the herbal bounty our landscapes and gardens may offer. After an introduction to the basics of blending herbs, there are chapters on Dry Seasonings, Rubs, Flavor Enhancers, Dressings & Condiments, and ending with some very tasty Beverages. Personally, I might start with one of her cocktails. It makes cooking after a long day go ever so much smoother!

    -- Jacqueline Soule * A Taste for Herbs – Book Review *
    >i>A Taste for Herbs is filled with unique ways to mix and use herbs you probably already grow. Sweet mixes like basic herb sugar for baking or rosemary-infused agave are explained along with savory herb flavored oils and vinegars and mixes for flavorful tea infusions. Page 120 has a good Mojito recipe. -- Vickie Haushild

    ISBN: 9781943366385

    Dimensions: 203mm x 203mm x 18mm

    Weight: 590g

    192 pages