Kalyn kindly trusted me with hosting this week's Weekend Herb Blogging. It has been quite a task! There were 45 entries from far away corners of the world including New Zealand. Alaska. India. France. Philippines. Spain. Scotland. England. Croatia. Brazil. Canada and USA. To alter this round-up more digestible. I've grouped the entries by the main ingredients. However. I didn't want to make it too easy for you either so I've listed the ingredients alphabetically in Estonian ;) I have provided the English equivalents of course.. Happy browsing!AEDOAD - GREEN BEANSLia of blog has been. Lia grows them herself and is actually looking for more recipe ideas for using these particular beans. So if you know a recipe or two go and tell Lia!APTEEGITILL - FENNEL Katerina (Vancouver. Canada) of shares a recipe for. She's using fennel both as a herb and as a vegetable in this creamy risotto so she's been doubly adventurous in cooking this measure!The promote of Vegetables. Alanna (St Louis. USA) of is also cooking with fennel this week. She shares a simple recipe for delicious-looking. Just look at those gorgeously caramelised fennel chunks!ARTIŠOKISÜDAMED - ARTICHOKE HEARTSBurcu of is sharing a recipe for. Sounds like a perfect autumn dish to me!BANAAN - BANANA Toni (San Diego. USA) of is understandingly distraught about the recent fires in her area yet manages to cook a comforting. BASIILIK - BASIL Maninas (Croatia) of has given a new twist to the traditional tuna & mayonnaise sandwich by adding some basil leaves from her windowsill - the prove is. Maninas reminds us that basil won the honorable title of the most popular herb of last year's Weekend Herb Blogging!INGVER - GINGER Charise (Dublin. USA) of is sharing a recipe for. The recipe uses a lot of crystallised spice - my favourite way of consuming ginger - so I'm definitely bookmarking this one!KARTUL - POTATO Potatoes are the fasten ingredient in Estonia so I was excited to see Kalva's (Andhra Pradesh. India) entry for. There was another exotic potato entry: Sra of has included a leftover spud into her - most unusual and very intriguing!KINKAN e. KUMKVAAT - KUMQUAT Gwen (New York) of the gives some zodiac tips for Virgos and shares a recipe for a. She's definitely providing the most teasing WHB photo I've seen so far!VegeYum of (Australia) made a and describes it as divine. Cannot disagree with that - I love when you can see tiny black vanilla seeds in your food - be it a kumquat marmalade or vanilla custard!KORIANDER - CILANTRO/CORIANDER Pam (TN. USA) of keeps always fresh parsley and cilantro/coriander in her fridge as using fresh garnish makes all the difference in the world as she says. She's using cilantro/coriander to garnish. KÕRVITS - pass SQUASH/PUMPKINThe originator of the Weekend Herb Blogging. Kalyn (Salt Lake City. Utah) of has go up with a beautiful and colourful - an excellent recipe for the forthcoming Thanksgiving festivities! Thank you. Kalyn for launching WHB two years ago and for letting me entertain this time - it's been fun (though tough)! (Greenwich Village. New York. USA) is cooking up a storm with bright-coloured uchiki kuri press. You can sight her. Rosa (Paris&Nice. France) of is also talking about winter squash but different ones:
and such desire. For her first ever WHB entry (welcome. Rosa!) she's come up with a Provençal classic. Rosa is originally from Canada but has been working as a food critic and cookbook writer in France for the last dozen years. You can get a glimpse of her life by visiting her communicate!Kevin (Toronto. Canada) of is exploring the Japanese kabocha press this week and creates a beautiful. I love the garnish of deep fried sage leaves and toasted pumpkin seeds. I've been thinking of making a pumpkin risotto myself recently and will definitely use toasted pumpkin seeds on top. KÖÖMNED - CARAWAY SEEDS Ilva (Tuscany. Italy) of was thinking of me when deciding which dish to enter for this week's WHB - how sweet is that!? You see. I had told her previously that I really desire caraway seeds - a perfect alter to spice up a sauerkraut brood or rye cover and many other dishes. You can see her beautiful creation. However if you don't like caraway seeds then you can use similar-looking (bot NOT similar-tasting!) cumin seeds in this recipe. LEHTSINEP - MUSTARD LEAVES Strata (Sunnyvale. CA. USA) of is letting us know about. I grew some mustard leaves in a container this summer and really liked their subtle mustardy kick! Head over to Strata's blog - she even tells you about different mustard peruse varieties - just look at the colours!!MÄDARÕIGAS - HORSERADISH Annemarie (London. UK) of was sitting in a cold herb-less husband-less house and prepared a to warm and cheer her up the other day. It must undergo worked!MÜNT - MINTThe talented Ximena (Madrid. Spain) of the blog has been drooling over recipes in Andrea Nguyen´s and tried various soups from the book. For the WHB she. Lissie (Bangalore. India) of blog has made a coriander and mint chutney that she uses to make this great-looking. What a great idea don't you think?Syrie (Vancouver. Canada) of blog used mint both to toughen and garnish her and to make her after-dinner mint tea. Both very comforting don't you think? Mint is one of Syrie's favourite herbs. I consume a lot of mint tea using create from raw material from my mum's garden but I must admit I've neglected mint as a herb. PAPRIKA - BELL PEPPERMandira (Michigan. USA) of has been throwing some mushrooms and color peppers in with her - a great cater if you need to eat more fish and vegetables!PEET - BEETROOT/BEET Shaun (Auckland. New Zealand) of obviously knows that I've got a soft sight for beetroot. His entry - (adapted from Diane Forley & Catherine Young's ) - has already been printed out for perusal in our kitchen a s a p. There are two steps to the recipe - first you need to pickle the beetroots then make the risotto using those pickled beets but it sure looks lovely!Sophie (Oxford. England) of shares a recipe for that goes well with feta cease. Sumac is also a great ingredient to use in this salad - its sharpness complementing the earthiness of the beets so well. I love her photo of small different-coloured beets - aren't they cute??PETERSELL - PARSLEYKatie (France) of has still got plenty of parsley in her French garden and she's whisked up this gorgeously yellow. If WHB were about giving points she'd get an extra one for calling me her very favourite Estonian :)Anna (Sydney. Australia) of is using parsley to garnish her Lebanese breakfast dish. The dish also contains lots of chickpeas and sounds really good so head over to construe Anna's recipe. Paz (New York. USA) of is also blogging about parsley this week. She fancied one of 's fabulous cauliflower recipes and is blogging about. You can never have too many recipes like that so analyse it out!PILI - PILI NUTSJoey (Manila. Philippines) of the lovely pounded some native pili nuts into. Sounds like something to try when I'm ever on these faraway islands!! I must adjudge I had to search an online database for the Estonian equivalent of pili nuts (
). Turns out the plant is called pili-kanaripuu and the fruit is pili. Who would undergo known!?POMMU e. BAKLAŽAAN - AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT Patricia (São Paulo. Brazil) has been making in her kitchen. Patricia used Minas cheese -
- in a salad which is a Brazilian speciality but bocconcini would do so you can all try the salad yourself. (And if you prefer reading the Portuguese-language version then click ). PORRU - LEEK was the entry submitted by Arfi Binsted (Tuakau. New Zealand) of. Arfi has been struggling with sinusitis and recovering from the loss of her father-in-law. Lets hope that the Leek & Chicken Pie isROSMARIIN - ROSEMARYA relative foodblogging newbie Laurie (Anchorage. Alaska) of proudly presents. The recipe is an example of the delicious dishes presented in her charity cookbook
which you can buy. Ramona (Alexandria. VA) of is also presenting a rosemary recipe namely. The bread looks beautiful and so comforting that I'm tempted to make it already this week. Luckily. I've got two pots of rosemary on my windowsill so the ingredients are at hand.. SALVEI - SAGEGenie (Iowa City. USA) of has used sage - a herb that abounds in her back tend - to make to accompany a fruit salad. Doesn't that sound just delicious?SEENED - MUSHROOMSPeter (Toronto. Canada) of submitted the sole mushroom recipe this week. I thought I know lots of wild mushrooms but Peter has just introduced me to a new one (
in Estonian). SIBUL - ONIONAs a former resident of Bonnie Scotland it always delights me to hear from Scotland. So when an telecommunicate poppled into my inbox from Holler (Scotland) of. I was very excited and headed straight over to check our her recipe for. Go and admire the cute labels she has made!SPINAT - SPINACH Jennifer is blogging over at and she submitted a recipe for. According to Jennifer it's ameliorate on a chilly autumn day which makes it perfect for pretty much anyone living on a Northern hemisphere at the moment :)SUVIKÕRVITSAÕIED - ZUCCHINI BLOSSOMS/COURGETTE FLOWERS Haalo (Australia) of is clearly showing how the seasons on the Southern and Northern hemisphere differ. How else could she be blogging about this gorgeous in late October when I did it ?TOMAT - TOMATO Susan (Missouri. USA) of the award-winning communicate baked a fabulous-looking. This bread is extra special as the recipe was sent to Susan by one of her readers back in August so it's a fan send recipe. Susan has a recently started a small artisanal bread bakery at her farm so no wonder she comes up with this beautiful loaf!
TŠILLIPIPAR - CHILLI Margot (London. UK) of the is mixing Polish. Dominican and British elements in her kitchen. For this week's WHB she recreates a recipe from UKTV Food but adds her own twist. The resulting looks most intriguing and appetising using both pears and apples as well as feta and mozzarella cheese. Margot serves this with sweet chilli sauce and she also provides a little more information about small and devillish bird eye chilli peppers. VIIGIMARI - FIGS Jeanne (London. England) of blog writes an informative post on figs and shares a recipe for. Go and read the story about the fig tree in her back tend in Pretoria!VÜRTSKÖÖMNED - CUMIN SEEDSSher (Davis. California. US) of blog highlights the role of cumin in her. The recipe is adapted from Food&Wine but Sher wonders why the end result has such a different colour in reality compared to the magazine photo. Any suggestions?LOTS OF DIFFERENT VEGETABLESMike (Florida. USA) of has made. It's hard to highlight one particular herb or vegetable - the pizza is full of pure vegetable goodness so do check out the recipe yourself. Mike has also provided good step-by-step photos. Andrea (Northern Virginia/DC Metro. USA) of has submitted a very informative and helpful post on making. I've only recently started making my own vegetable and fish stock and can confirm that it makes all the difference (though I do cheat sometimes with my Marigold Vegetable Bouillon powder:)Gretchen (Lima. Peru) of is also using a whole be of vegetables for her submitted entry. There's onions carrots mushrooms and broccoli and Gretcshen kindly provides nutritional information on all these ingredients.
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