The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor

Wonderful recipes and great herb growing advice. The recipes have me changing my tune on a lot of food I didn’t think I liked

Great book. Lots of very creative recipes for making good use of my new herb garden. Receipes have starters, salads, main course seafood, meat, vegetarian and desserts. Also good info on growing herbs. I thought it was cute to include one recipe for your dog....I'll have to see if our Chloe would enjoy those. I look forward to making some of these great dishes. Wonderful for entertaining!!

Great book, well researched. The author, a chef, is obviously very knowledgeable and passionate on this subject, and I learned a lot. The recipes are terrific and every one of them I have tried worked well. What I liked was the focus on getting the most flavor from natural, healthy ingredients since I am trying to avoid a lot of fat, and no longer eat gluten and rarely eat red meat. This perfectly fit the ticket. I now am growing many more herbs and adopted them into my daily eating routines. I'm so into making my own herbal teas and drinks now! Highly recommended.

This book speaks to a very specific audience. If you are into gourmet cooking and your family enjoys culinary adventures, this will be a home run. The images are beautiful and the food looks creative and delicious. There is no doubt the author is talented and passionate about what he does.However, this book wasn't for me. I am an avid gardener who enjoys eating healthy, but simple. Cooking is not a love of mine, just a means to an end. I was hoping to find easy ways to incorporate the herbs I love to grow. This is not such a book. I do not find the recipes to be simple, nor would many of these be appetizing to my elementary-school aged boys. Many of the recipes include ingredients I am unfamiliar with and many also require or suggest cooking implements beyond the basics--food processors, convection ovens, etc. I pulled out approximately 10 recipes that were 'normal' enough and hassle-free enough that I would actually make on a weeknight. So, as I said, this book will be great for some, but not for me.

I lost my original copy of this book and replaced it immediately. The recipes are not complicated, but they are big on flavor. I have an abundance of lemon verbena growing in my garden, and when I am tired of steeping it for tea or churning it into ice cream, I can pick up this cookbook and find some inspiration. In this case Spicy Verbena Meatballs with a Minted Yogurt Sauce. The book helps you think outside the box for those herbs that may not be in your everyday cooking repertoire.

I bought this book 3-4 years ago when we became serious about tending an herb garden. We love including fresh herbs in our foods. I hoped this book would help us use the many herbs we grew in new ways, and I was not disappointed. I use it daily during herb growing season. This cookbook May not be helpful unless you grow or buy fresh herbs.I haven't tried any of the recipes with dried herbs.

The book explains differences in the variety of herbs, how to plant and growing seasons and examples of recipes in which to use them.

I really enjoyed the pictures and the recipes. Also, the stories that go along with everything.