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while flipping through gordon ramsay's cookbook yesterday, i noticed that a few of his recipes called for thyme flowers. i had no idea that you could incorporate those in your cooking, and since my thyme is in full bloom, i snipped a couple buds.
i used them sparingly, (had no idea if i would like it or not) but i do, so i will be making this sometime again in the very near future.
Thyme is a favourite culinary herb and is one of the ingredients in the traditional French bouquet garni along with marjoram, parsley, and bay leaf. It imparts excellent flavour to all kinds of red meat dishes, soups, sauces and vegetable dishes and is a favourite ingredient in stuffings for poultry.
Thyme has also had many traditional medicinal uses especially in the treatment of coughs and colds and also as an antiseptic. (It contains thymol.) The herb was often used to make skin tonics. Thyme oil is reputed to repel head lice, though the smell is very strong and care must be taken with young sensitive scalps.
Thyme is highly attractive to bees and, planted near the vegie garden, can help promote pollination. The bushes may also help to mask the smell of vegetables and reduce some insect attack.
I belong to this set - Herbal Essence.
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"Will ye go, lassie, go
And we'll all go together
To pick wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, lassie, go"
(Written by the Scot Robert Tannahill (1774-1810).
A drink recipe concocted after a friend and coworker presented me with a bottle of home-made apple bitters a few weeks back.
Recipe
1 1/2 oz. bourbon (I used Bulleit here)
1 oz. applejack (I used Laird's here)
3/4 oz. lemon juice
3/4 oz. thyme simple syrup
several dashes apple bitters
apple wedge and thyme sprig for garnish
Combine all liquids over ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass with fresh ice, garnish with apple slice and thyme.
Nikon D7000 w/Nikkor Micro 105mm, 1/250s @ ƒ/8, ISO100. Single SB-600 in octabox rear and right, full power, 85mm, white card for fill to the left. Color finished in Lightroom.
Thyme Spurge (Phyllanthus hirtellus) after rain. Found in bushland in Springwood, Blue Mountains, NSW.
Since I LOVE Puns, thought I would post this for today's theme ("TIME") to see what happens. Of course, this was the VERY LAST container that I looked at it in my spice cabinet and it was "Rubbed" THYME. I even took the TIME to look
up "Rubbed" to see what the difference was between this and Regular Thyme. But now you're looking at Double Thyme. I spent way too much TIME with this... HMM !